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The Observer
Anger as prosecutions of tax evasion enablers fall by 75%
Prosecutions of the enablers of tax evasion have plummeted by at least 75% in the past five years, with fewer than five criminal cases in 2023-2024.
3 min |
March 30, 2025
The Observer
Power switching Banks woo current account customers with cash payouts
If you're thinking of changing bank, several want your business: but time is running out on some deals, writes Shane Hickey
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Teachers' Pensions is now assuming that I'm dead
I contacted you a year ago after you wrote about teachers not receiving their pensions because of assumptions that they were dead.
3 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
The what, when and how of securing a limited ceasefire
Ukraine and Russia have agreed in principle to a limited ceasefire after the US president, Donald Trump, spoke with the countries' leaders last week. But uncertainty remains about how or when this will take effect as Ukraine and Russia prepare to send delegations to Riyadh this week for parallel talks with the US.
2 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Unregulated experts in family court face ban
Unregulated experts could be banned from the family courts under new proposals for proceedings involving children in England and Wales.
3 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
'A tax exile's half-baked scheme': Man Utd stadium row escalates
Plea for millions of pounds of public cash to regenerate surrounding area comes under fire
3 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
An ethical alternative?
In these times of global crisis it's easy to feel overwhelmed about what we can do to make a difference. However, choosing an ethical home for your current account is one of the easiest ways to ensure your money is being used in a socially responsible way.
1 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Do we really want Clueless updated to reflect our dark, digital age? Ugh! As if!
Thirty years after the film, the musical version makes no excuses for being a nostalgia-fest
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
'Shame-faced grin, untidy hair': MI5's Philby files, by the spies who tailed him
New exhibition reveals how watchers profiled the arch-traitor years before he defected
3 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
10 lockdown lessons to learn for next time
Five years since Boris Johnson ordered the UK to stay at home to stall the virus's spread, Observer Science Editor Robin McKie reflects on the next steps
6 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Wish you weren't here? US tourism drops amid Trump's immigration crackdown
High-profile arrests and detentions of travellers on flimsy grounds may worsen existing downturn
3 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital and will convalesce at home
The pontiff, 88, has been cleared to leave Vatican's care unit after treatment for pneumonia in both lungs
2 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Donald Trump's imperial presidency is a throwback to a greedier, more pernicious age
His attempts to bully and exploit the weak hark back to an era when the US emulated all the worst aspects of the British empire
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Diplomacy
The votes in the United Nations marking the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine provided a bleak snapshot of the yawning diplomatic divide between Donald Trump’s America and the country’s traditional allies.
1 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Adolescence reveals a terrifying truth: phones are poison for boys' minds
When Netflix highlights how online influencers can turn a teenager into a killer, it must be time to rethink social media
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Kemi Badenoch is failing to hit the spot at PMQs – and everywhere else
Kemi Badenoch is not much good at Prime Minister's Questions. To which you might retort: so what? Everyone knows the weekly bout of mouth-to-mouth combat between prime minister and leader of the opposition is a theatrical ritual. The typical voter deplores it as a load of yah-boo, signifying nothing. Only a small minority of the public tune in on a consistent basis.
5 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
New guidance in 'revenge porn' cases will call for deletion of intimate images
CPS will urge prosecutors to end anomaly by which perpetrators get to retain content on their devices
2 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
'Many Rastas were chased away from Ethiopia. We will remain'
Settlers came from far and wide to a spiritual haven but now they are no longer welcome.
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Badenoch accused of breaking hustings pledge to Tory MPs on net zero by 2050
Party's former energy minister claims that during 2022 leadership campaign she gave full backing to reaching environmental targets
3 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Ye of little faith? The tax loophole that turns old pubs into places of worship
A complex corporate network is enabling big landlords to avoid business rates via a religious exemption and costing cash-strapped councils millions.
7 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Gaza's ceasefire brought hope, but it was the calm before a brutal storm
In Gaza this weekend, the mood is darker than it has been at perhaps any time in this long war. Last Tuesday Israeli warplanes, tanks, artillery, drones and ships launched a wave of strikes, shattering the increasingly fragile pause in hostilities that had brought respite to the devastated territory for nearly two months. The ceasefire had also brought hope which, Palestinians in Gaza said, made the return to violence that much more unbearable.
3 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world's a stage for his ideas on injustice?
The trend for cultural reappraisal risks upholding the very ideas it aims to dismantle
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Hard times: why Rachel Reeves must be bold and ditch her Dickensian rulebook
In her crucial statement this week, the chancellor would do well to reject the Gradgrind mindset
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Lest we forget: is this the last shred of our mutual respect with Russia?
Each country cares for the war graves of the other - a private agreement with Britain that seems to persist despite current tension
3 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
All families 'to be worse off by 2030' as poor bear the brunt
Blow for PM over living standards pledge Chancellor under pressure ahead of cuts
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Erdoğan defiant as Turkish protests start to morph into a movement
Emboldened by the US, Turkey's president shows no sign of giving in to growing anger over the detention of a political opponent,
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
'I get 100 messages a day': Church of Scientology accused of abusing critics
Campaigners have faced allegations of bigotry, sexual misconduct and criminal behaviour from social media accounts linked to the organisation.
6 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
#YouToo, Gwynnie? Intimacy coordinators make sex scenes safe for all, not just A-listers
The film star is among those undermining a role that was created to protect the powerless
4 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
'They preyed on her': asylum seekers allege abuse in mixed-sex hotels
Claims against other residents and staff in Home Office accommodation include the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl, reports Shanti Das
6 min |
March 23, 2025
The Observer
Excluded pupils twice as likely to commit serious violent crime
Study highlights how system fails troubled teens, say campaigners
3 min |