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Dragged through the mud? Patagonia takes on Pattie Gonia in battle over brand name
The outdoor brand is suing a drag queen for infringing its trademark but she is digging in her high heels and fans are calling for a boycott...
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May 31, 2026
The Observer
Ten books to make the most of summer
From slim novels to intimate memoirs, Ellen Peirson-Hagger picks the best new releases and paperbacks for the holidays
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May 31, 2026
The Observer
Blair's old solutions fail to recognise that the problems have changed
The world is turning on its axis,” Tony Blair warned last week, “and today’s politicians living in a 24/7 pressure cooker have barely the time to recognise the turning, let alone study it.”
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May 31, 2026
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Class actions face reform for benefiting lawyers more than claimants
US-style mass consumer claims in UK courts face reform after criticism that lawyers have been the biggest beneficiaries to date and there have been limited payouts for claimants.
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May 31, 2026
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‘Let’s start with 70%’: Netanyahu vows Israel will occupy more of Gaza
On stage in the Israeli settlement of Kfar Adumim, Benjamin Netanyahu kept his tone jovial and his white shirt sleeves rolled up as he broadcast plans to further occupy Gaza.
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May 31, 2026
The Observer
Spreading as quickly as Ebola itself, doubt and rumour turn deadly in the DRC
On 27 March, Viviane Ajiko, a 35-year-old volunteer burial worker, was called to the home of a young man who had recently died in Mongbwalu, a town in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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May 31, 2026
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Promises of a green jobs revolution have turned to rust in Steel Town
On the site of the former steelworks in Redcar, local workers are still waiting for the boom in employment promised by the government’s net zero target, writes Jeevan Vasagar
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May 31, 2026
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‘Mass deportations are coming’: ICE warehouse prisons aim to deliver on Trump’s migrant plan
To fulfil his pledge to deport a million undocumented people, the president first needs places to hold them. But legal and public protests threaten to derail his plan
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May 31, 2026
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Faltering Ferrari hopes pope can work a miracle
The launch of the new Ferrari Luce could hardly have got off to a worse start — a five-seater electric vehicle in light blue (not racing red) that seems designed for the school run, not transporting hot Italian couples to fabulous locations.
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May 31, 2026
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Dr Blair’s prescription has made his party gag. At least it’s forced Labour to engage with ideas
The former leader’s provocative essay has provided a whetstone for Andy Burnham to sharpen his leftwing credentials
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May 31, 2026
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Lost issues of actors’ directory found with Observer’s help
You might not know the name of the actor Carl Brisson, but the director he once worked with, Alfred Hitchcock, will probably ring a bell.
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May 31, 2026
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Questions over Reform’s ‘financial black hole’
Annual accounts reveal a £2.8m shortfall in the donations reported by the party in its first year
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May 31, 2026
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Tech bros have not bought off my institute, but the implications of AI blow my mind
The debate is not about Labour's mission. But how to achieve it in a fast-changing world. My essay has provoked what has been, on the whole, a good and healthy debate.
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May 31, 2026
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Forget Restore — the problem is mainstream politics promoting far-right policies
“Restore’s Rightwing extremism is a problem for Nigel Farage,” ran the headline of a Times column by Melanie Phillips warning that Restore Britain “threatens to snatch votes from Reform and hand victory to Andy Burnham”.
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May 31, 2026
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Met officer barred over racist and sexist messages
A Metropolitan police officer has been found to have committed gross misconduct in a police misconduct hearing and barred from policing after sending racist and misogynistic messages, including mocking a child rape victim.
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May 31, 2026
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‘People laugh that I’m a professional northerner, but I’m proud of my home’
Andy Burnham is stopped by a voter as we stroll through the Three Sisters nature reserve in Makerfield.
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May 31, 2026
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I dreamed of having a No 1. With Three Lions I had four. Now it’s time to pass the ball
Three Lions, the football song written and performed by Ian Broudie, David Baddiel and myself, was first released 30 years ago this month.
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May 31, 2026
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Labour rips itself apart
The Labour party is facing a period of intense internal conflict as ideological divisions and leadership challenges come to the fore.
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May 31, 2026
The Observer
An AI uprising is more plausible than most people realise — or want to admit
As the backlash against big tech grows, a new investigation reveals we have created an existential risk that is anything but artificial
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May 31, 2026
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Google’s AI Search is seducing us into a spoon-fed future
The other day I asked Google if next year is 2027. Its AI-generated response was: “Next year is 2028, and the year after that is 2027.”
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May 31, 2026
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Manifold reasons for ousting of BP's chair
The oil giant offered cryptic explanations for its decision to boot out Albert Manifold. Barney Macintyre provides a translation
3 min |
May 31, 2026
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Burnham pledges a democratic earthquake with promise on proportional voting
The Greater Manchester mayor says he would change the electoral system if he makes it to No 10, and it wouldn't require a referendum
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May 31, 2026
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Reeves’s salary sacrifice tax will force job cuts, say firms
More than two-thirds of UK employers say tax on salary sacrifice pension contributions included in last year’s budget would force them to take action by cutting jobs, offshoring roles or reducing other investments.
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May 31, 2026
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Lloyd's acknowledges its role in slave trade with requiem mass
Lloyd's of London, one of the world’s oldest insurance companies, has commissioned a requiem mass to memorialise the lost lives of enslaved Africans and to acknowledge its part in the history of the “objectification, commodification and dehumanisation” of enslaved people.
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May 31, 2026
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‘Every family has its myths. We were told our forebears mapped Ireland’
On a stroll along the East Lothian coastline, the author of Hamnet talks to Alex O’Connell about her peripatetic early childhood and sifting through family folklore to find the mapmaking ancestors who inspired her new novel
9 min |
May 24, 2026
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James Murdoch moves into ‘fairer media’ with Vox deal
In signing a $300m deal to buy half of New York-based Vox Media, James Murdoch joins liberal billionaires Laurene Powell Jobs at the Atlantic and John Henry at the Boston Globe in attempting to defend struggling US media operations.
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May 24, 2026
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Mindy Kaling
The hardworking multitasker is rewriting the workplace comedy, says Barbara Ellen
4 min |
May 24, 2026
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Activist ‘feared for her life’ on Gaza flotilla
A UK-based pro-Palestine activist intercepted by Israeli forces on a flotilla heading to Gaza last week has said she feared for her life as she watched colleagues emerge bleeding and wounded from a shipping container.
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May 24, 2026
The Observer
A tale of two fires: in Milan, nine convicted — at Grenfell, we’re still waiting
In August 2021, a huge fire ripped through the 18-storey Torre del Moro in Milan.
4 min |
May 24, 2026
The Observer
Time will tell, mon ami... Mystery of the newest Poirot
There are clues for fans to solve as the BBC casts Agatha Christie’s enduring Belgian sleuth
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