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The Observer
Note to party leaders: let Farage get in your heads and you are doomed
What is Nigel Farage’s superpower? It is not a talent for government, because the old blowhard has never been so much as the parliamentary undersecretary for paper clips.
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May 04, 2025
The Observer
You and I are gonna live for ever ... as avatars, at least
For $199, you can live for ever. At least that’s the promise of an app called HereAfter AI, which might let you haunt your family for generations.
2 min |
May 04, 2025
The Observer
Neom's advisers worry as future under review
Is an emergency review of project costs the beginning of the end for the $500bn boondoggle in the Saudi Arabian desert, asks
2 min |
May 04, 2025
The Observer
Hackers boast of ransom attacks on high street chains
A computer hacking “cartel” has claimed credit for attacks on Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods.
1 min |
May 04, 2025
The Observer
Trump's first 100 days
At a rally to mark the first three months of the second coming of Donald Trump, the US president claimed that it had been “the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country”.
1 min |
May 04, 2025
The Observer
British businesses fear US-style wave of crypto 'debanking'
A senior employee of a publicly listed, UK-registered crypto company struggles to get a mortgage because his salary is paid by a crypto business.
2 min |
May 04, 2025
The Observer
Robots at No 10: Starmer forges ahead with Al to 'rewire' the state
A data science unit of 'disruptors and innovators' starts work in Downing Street this week. Its Cummings-esque mission? Reinvent how government operates
6 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
'Heartbreaking': Columbia tears itself apart in a futile struggle to make nice with Maga
Confronted with a hostile government, the liberal bastion at first capitulated then seemed to backtrack.
6 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
A hip op ruined my trip but the insurer won't pay
I have been waiting four months for a payout on my travel policy after I had to cancel my holiday to have a hip replacement.
2 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
BP back in deep water as hedge fund demands spending cuts
BP’s boss, Murray Auchincloss, may be forced to scrap the oil firm’s share buyback programme over the next year unless oil prices recover, analysts say. Results for the Q1 are due on Tuesday and the picture isn’t pretty.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Mammon prays for an audience with new pope
No man can serve both God and money, but Pope Francis did try to make the leading devotees of mammon more virtuous by welcoming them warmly into the Vatican.
1 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Echoes of the stagnant society
In this age of soundbites, it made a good headline: \"Starmer warns Trump 'don't start a trade war\" Oh, so well intentioned.
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Matt Clifford: the power broker behind the UK's Al agenda
No 10's unofficial machine learning tsar is seeking to bake the technology into the UK's economic future, writes Patricia Clarke
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Australia's zeal for teal has faded. Yet climate could still sway this election
Eco matters have fallen down the agenda since 2022 but, a week before the polls, voters are still looking for alternatives to the main parties.
5 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Revealed: Andrew Tate's brother accused of coercing 30 women into online sex work
Tristan Tate is far less well known than his notorious elder sibling, but new evidence suggests he holds a central role in their alleged criminality
8 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Was it the courts, was it the cops, was it the Sun? So who killed Just Stop Oil?
As the climate activists stage their farewell protest, David Taylor talks to veteran campaigners about why they did it, what they achieved - and where they are going next
7 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Crucial choice facing the next pope: reform or alienate a new generation
Francis shook up the Catholic church to acknowledge the gulf between its ways and the ways of the world. Now it falls to his successor to bring about change, argues
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
Philosopher, poet and novelist who challenged 'Heart of Darkness' clichés about the African continent
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Action on rogue asylum advisers
Sham lawyers and banned advisers have been increasingly identified acting as middlemen in the immigration system, according to the Home Office.
1 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Super-charged surgery cuts lists
NHS waiting lists have been cut by almost 50,000 in deprived areas by running operating theatres like Formula One pit stops.
1 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
'Despite all the adversity she faced, she was the light that lifted so many'
The life of Virginia Giuffre, and her battle to expose the financier Jeffrey Epstein as a child sex trafficker, was commemorated with tributes after her family announced yesterday the 41-year-old had died at her home in Australia.
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Petal power: farmers turn to wildflowers to save their crops
Farmers seeking to protect their orchards from one of the most “devastating” pests in nature are cultivating a new weapon: flowers.
1 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Talk of Generation K is moral panic - but why is ketamine use on the rise?
Reports of an epidemic are overblown but increased abuse reflects the habits of young people in danger of becoming lost to the drug
4 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Drama, politics, intrigue... Electing a pope is the stuff of novels - and Amen to that
I lost my journalistic virginity at the age of 29 in the back of Michael Heseltine's limousine, travelling north with him on a visit to Liverpool. It was 1987.
4 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Nick Clegg The EU must reinvent itself... or die
Seventy-five years ago the idea of the European Union was born with these words.
2 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
An offer to Europe
The world has changed. Britain can renew the EU and be a part of it
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Orange-tip butterfly
A week in the life? That's a laugh. More like a life in the week. If I make it to four weeks I'll be one of the luckiest orange-tip butterflies that ever took wing. Though I'm not inclined to measure success in number of days. Number of females more like. One would be good.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
'When I am out training, I feel I'm with Elsie': the Southport dad in the race of his life
David Stancombe is running in the London Marathon to raise money in memory of his daughter, one of the three girls killed in the attack on a dance class last year. He and his wife Jenni talk to Paul Hayward
5 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
After I broke my neck my husband looked after me – now I care for him
In the first of a new fortnightly column Melanie Reid explains how a riding accident changed her life, and the challenges of being a carer now
4 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Part-LA, part-Dubai: Vietnam today, five decades after the fall of Saigon
Each day at 9am sharp, the low rumble began. Russian-made Mig fighter jets screamed over Ho Chi Minh City last week, followed swiftly by Vietnamese air force helicopters. Below, soldiers in fatigues marched past artillery crews firing mock shells from canons pointed across the Saigon River.
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