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The Observer
WEF war threatens Davos' future
The leadership crisis at the World Economic Forum is intensifying in ways that bode ill for the organisation that runs the annual elite gathering in Davos.
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June 01, 2025
The Observer
Angry young Poles hold the key to presidential palace in knife-edge election
As Poland returns to the ballot box, voters frustrated with the lack of progressive change are looking elsewhere for leadership, reports Adam Hsakou in Warsaw
3 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Please shed some light on my solar panel issue
Ten years ago my husband and I bought 16 solar panels and had them fitted to the house where we were living, which belonged to us both.
2 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Let us pray and pray: church shelters migrant family with 192-day service
A Dutch congregation is providing sanctuary to a family facing deportation by using an ancient law to prevent police entering the building.
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June 01, 2025
The Observer
Let's wax lyrical over Greggs: it's on a roll
The news that the Greggs sausage roll is to be immortalised in the “culture capital” section of Madame Tussauds, where it will sit on a “regal” blue velvet cushion in the company of Princess Diana and Stormzy, has been greeted with a certain amount of amusement by the media ~ I must admit to finding it quite funny myself.
1 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Nuclear power has a renewed and now geopolitical appeal
As countries pledge to triple nuclear capacity worldwide as a net zero strategy, Fred Harter looks at the global picture
3 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Dog ownership has jumped up – but do our pets need shrinks and ice-cream? Martha Gill
Most Britons consider their furry friends the 'love of their life', and are spending more on them. Yet, it may be unhealthy for their pups
4 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Welcome to Everest: form an orderly queue
It's now proven that you can race up Everest and back inside a week by acclimatising with xenon gas, but most people still have to do it the old-fashioned way.
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June 01, 2025
The Observer
War is not something in a faraway country. It's here now, warns report
Britain's defence has to undergo its biggest change for 150 years – and citizens must step up, new review urges
4 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Investors tell CEOs to work 40-hour weeks
Dissatisfied pension fund investors have demanded Elon Musk work at least 40 hours a week at Tesla.
1 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Wegovy maker seeks leader to grab more of slimming drug pie
Novo Noraisk, the maker of weignt-loss drug Wegovy, seeks a new CEO who can help the company make up the ground it has lost to Eli Lilly.
1 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world
There has never been a bigger mismatch between our education system and what young people need to thrive in the modern world.
2 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Dirty work: more than half of our rubbish is being incinerated
England is for the first time burning more than half its rubbish in incineration plants that have been branded the country's dirtiest form of generating power.
1 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Truth cannot survive the attentions of the free speech absolutists
Philip Collins
4 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
This chancellor is a picture of restraint holding a spending review with little to spend
Under the shadow of fiscal rules and political backlash, Rachel Reeves is tasked with delivering a plan with nothing in the coffers
4 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
We're in two minds on migration. Let's find a way to strike a balance
In a focus group I organised in Peterborough ahead of the EU referendum, a participant ardently championed the “fantastic work ethic” of migrants.
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June 01, 2025
The Observer
Forcing China to wrestle with Trump is folly – better it joins the UK-EU tag team
When Keir Starmer and his European counterparts are engaged in a difficult and tense separation of European policy from that of Donald Trump’s US over Ukraine, it seems to be piling on to tell them they must do the same for China. But they must.
3 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Le Slap: France wonders what it means for Macron's marriage – and presidency
The French tend not to care about their leaders' private lives, but that was before 'slapgate'
2 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Hi, this is Nigel. And that'll be £71, please
Reform leader Nigel Farage is making more money from recording video messages for a celebrity greetings service than he earns in his job as an MP.
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June 01, 2025
The Observer
Trump thinks that he can bully Africa – but America will be the loser
At around the same time last month as South African president Cyril Ramaphosa was arriving at the White House ahead of his Oval Office ambush, a Gulfstream V was on its way to South Sudan.
3 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
I couldn't even bring myself to despise rugby
In her search for a sport to love, Marie Le Conte finds the heat of a scrum leaves her cold
2 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Period app firms express shock at police checks of women's data
Senior executives at leading menstrual-cycle tracking apps are “in disbelief” at new UK police guidance that suggests officers could check women's phones for the apps after an unexpected pregnancy loss.
2 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Hunger-striker's plea to PM: help free my son from Cairo prison
A British-Egyptian professor who has been on hunger strike for eight months, demanding the British government do more to release her son from jail in Cairo, is fighting for her life after being admitted to hospital.
2 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Lost and found: Francis Bacon...
When Stephen Smith tracks down one of Francis Bacon’s last living subjects - the former Soho night-club bouncer Ted Westfallen - he discovers more than just the mystery subject of a painting, but reveals a chapter in the riotous life of the artist.
1 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Robots to be given tactile ‘skin’ and dexterous hands
A startup working on tactile robotic “skin”, allowing machines to feel objects rather than relying on vision, is among nine projects that received £23.3m in government funding to solve the problem of robot dexterity.
1 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Danger zone: where will a 2C temperature rise leave our planet?
It was once thought almost impossible. Now scientists are warning of irreversible changes to the Earth's climate in just the next four years, writes James Tapper
4 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
The moron premium
Fantasy economics has become the populists' calling card. The consequences are anything but imaginary
2 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
US ‘move fast and break things’ is no return to 80s neoliberalism
How dramatically the world has changed for the leading progressive economists and political thinkers who gathered at Cambridge University this week for the Moller Institute’s conference Beyond Neoliberalism.
1 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
'Can't ChatGPT do it?'
The cull of office jobs
3 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Burberry wears its British identity crisis on its sleeve in turbulent times
When Burberry was successful, it bottled the essence of Britishness.
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