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The Observer
British stars play key role as Club Kid lights up Cannes
It started as a murmur, then became a pounding backbeat to the final days of the festival. Sometimes it seemed there was just one question on the lips of the critics and film distributors scouting for the next breakaway hit in Cannes: “Have you seen Club Kid yet?”
2 min |
May 24, 2026
The Observer
Magnificent lesson on AI's power
The theology of AI is the topic of Leo XIV's first papal encyclical, to be published tomorrow.
1 min |
May 24, 2026
The Observer
‘Fakery is now the coin of the realm. Underlying it is a sense we’re all hustlers’
On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings about his new book, London Calling, and how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death
9 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Another crypto king heads home to keep funding Reform
When the bitcoin cryptocurrency surged to new heights about a decade ago, the Hong Kong-based crypto entrepreneur and Reform UK donor Ben Delo was catapulted into the ranks of the global super-rich.
1 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
The future of Labour’s economic vision
Three essays suggest different ways to fix broken Britain. About time, says Ben Zaranko
3 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
How the face of party membership has changed since Corbyn's tenure
The Labour party that will choose their next leader is not the one that existed a decade ago.
1 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Nationalist and pro-Palestine rallies flood the streets around Westminster
Police under pressure as thousands jostle to hear Tommy Robinson while others protest over Gaza and Ukraine
3 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Conspiracy theories dismissed after bodies found in Brighton
Social media speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the deaths of three young women in Brighton last week have pushed the police to confirm that no third parties are believed to be involved in the case.
2 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
The jury’s out on Musk v Altman, the bitter tech bro battle over purpose and profits of AI
One of big tech’s most acrimonious feuds has spilled into a federal courtroom in Oakland, California.
3 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Italy shows where shortcuts get you. It isn't pretty
My country's woes are a lesson for those trying to depose Keir Starmer
3 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
What divides and unites Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham?
One of the first people Wes Streeting spoke to after he resigned from the cabinet on Thursday was Andy Burnham. The former health secretary and the Greater Manchester mayor discussed Labour's catastrophic results at the local elections and agreed that Keir Starmer had to be replaced.
3 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
A rate cut is off the table for Fed’s new chair Warsh
Soaring inflation is not usually good news for a central bank tasked with keeping prices stable. Yet the surge in US inflation reported last week may be just what the Federal Reserve needs now.
1 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Judge gives evidence in murder trial of daughter’s partner
A woman whose partner killed her before he allegedly attempted to blow up their home endured years of “emotional abuse”, a court has heard.
2 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
For the sake of justice and democracy, courts must let jurors follow their conscience
“This tablet commemorates the courage and endurance of the jury... which established the right of juries to give their verdict according to their convictions.”
4 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
‘Short-sighted’ travel approval scheme grounds former offenders
Alicia Rasta is global sales director for a US company with clients around the world and an international base in the UK.
4 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Steve Hilton
The former No 10 aide is tipped to run California — despite Trump’s ‘help’, says Andrew Anthony
4 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
The Ecuadorian poet vying to lead the UN — if she can just win over Xi, Putin and Trump
María Fernanda Espinosa talks to Isabel Coles about her plan to succeed António Guterres and why the US president's Board of Peace is no competition
4 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Michael Pennington
Revered stage actor who played the Bard’s greatest roles and co-founded the English Shakespeare Company
4 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Shattered allegiances and broken friendships litter the streets of Westminster
While Keir Starmer might be confused as to who his allies are at the moment, it is important he presses on and ignores his would-be assassins, says his biographer Tom Baldwin
6 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
‘No one wants Burnham round here’: mayor faces voter hostility in byelection
The Greater Manchester mayor seeks a return to Westminster via Ashton-in-Makerfield. But Reform is poaching once-loyal Labour supporters, residents tell Andrew Anthony
4 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
French artists join La Résistance against a rightwing billionaire’s takeover
Authors, film-makers and journalists have united in their refusal to be part of media mogul Vincent Bolloré’s ‘ideological war’
4 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Common pipistrelle bat
It's the nicest place I've ever heard. The trees are in just the right places, and there’s a couple of handy streetlights where the foolish insects so obligingly gather.
2 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
The prime minister’s past few days have resembled not so much Macbeth as The Comedy of Errors
Streeting and Burnham have unleashed a perilous summer for Labour driven by panic, miscalculation and naked ambition
4 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Swapping push-ups for poetry with a Eurovision cool-down is my kind of fitness plan
A weekly dose of the arts has been found to lower our biological age. I stand vindicated...
3 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Fury as Republican gerrymandering to dilute Black vote is approved by courts
Fearful of November's midterms, the GOP is attempting to redraw district maps in its favour, and lawmakers appear content to let it, writes Hugh Tomlinson
3 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
How a love-starved childhood inspired David Lean, cinema’s great romantic
A new documentary highlights the brutal relationship with his father that shaped the director’s life and work
3 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
A truth problem
There are about 5m reasons not to trust Farage
2 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
Billionaires eye classic artworks as Iran war pushes up the prices
The Iran war has caused the cost of crude oil to soar. It may also push up the prices of the more refined oils being traded in the latest round of New York art auctions.
1 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
The gentleman is for turning: Farage changes story on money
When it was revealed last month that Nigel Farage had received a £5m gift from Christopher Harborne without declaring it, the Reform UK leader insisted he did not have to because it was for his personal security.
1 min |
May 17, 2026
The Observer
French wine crisis leads to death among the vineyards
Desperate vignerons are taking their own lives as climate change, US tariffs and wars take a grim toll on their livelihoods. Alex Diggins reports
10 min |