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The Observer
Ex-ITV chair's 'save public service broadcasters' plea
The co-chair of the Creative Industries Council and former chair of ITV has called for the government's forthcoming industrial strategy to include a plan \"not just for the future of the BBC, but for the future of public service broadcasting\".
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June 08, 2025
The Observer
£86bn boost for science in 'modern industrial strategy'
A boost to science and technology worth £86bn will be announced in the spending review on Wednesday to “turbocharge” the economy and fuel cutting-edge research.
1 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Business rates to make 'ghost towns' of UK high streets
Some of the country's biggest retailers have written to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, warning that the government's plans to overhaul business rates risk turning UK high streets into “ghost towns”.
1 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
As London vaunts Nvidia, it shouldn't forget ARM
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive of chip-making powerhouse Nvidia, will be the star attraction at London Tech Week, which starts tomorrow.
1 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Divine comedy: fringe standups turn to religion for inspiration
When Sam Williams first used the word \"Christianity\" in his standup routine at comedy clubs, he said audiences would freeze. He felt \"the weight of that word\".
2 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
The world is watching: it’s time to honour our oceans
My grandfather, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, revealed the wonders of the ocean. Through his films and expeditions, he offered a first glimpse into a hidden realm, sparking a global fascination with the sea.
1 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Hello New World... and bye bye Brexit
The New European, a newspaper that launched in the wake of the 2016 referendum to campaign against Brexit, has turned the page by rebranding itself as the New World.
1 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Neither man received anything like the kind of nourishment boys need
When it comes to messed-up men, they don't come more messed up than Elon Musk and Donald Trump. That these two found each other was inevitable; top predators in the human food chain are going to bump into one another, and so an uneasy alliance needs to be made.
2 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Your country needs you – shame about the poor pay and toxic culture
The UK's strategic defence review has a lot to say about military hardware.
3 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Aid budget diverted to pay for asylum hotels
The Home Office plans to spend about £2.2bn of the foreign aid budget on supporting asylum seekers this financial year.
1 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Sea monsters
Bottom trawlers have a disastrous effect on ocean ecosystems. They should be outlawed everywhere
2 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Fear and boating: Jazz Turner sets sail for round-coast challenge
'Brutal' first week tests resilience with 35 knot headwinds, a boat adrift after the anchor broke free and a failed autopilot
2 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Response to education review must be bold
David Blunkett hits the nail on the head (“We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world”, News, last week) when he says “radical reform is needed of both the curriculum and the assessment system”.
1 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Britain must invest in itself – and stop building companies for other countries
Will Hutton
4 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Starmer must learn to count Brexit's true cost
Although the quip “a week is a long time in politics” is generally attributed to Harold Wilson, it was first used by the US president Harry Truman, a somewhat more distinguished wordsmith than the ineffable Donald Trump.
3 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Beyoncé makes headlines again in stage outfit that takes a swipe at US media
Living under the paparazzi spotlight for years, the pop legend joins the rebellious fashion trend with a statement of her own
2 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Inside the drone attack that left Russia's top brass humiliated
The daring raids on Putin's bomber force were a slap in the face of the Kremlin, Ukraine's jubilant commanders tell Nina Kuryata
2 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Spotlight on the Tonys
When the Tony awards for American theatre were launched at the Waldorf Astoria in 1947, winners received a scroll and a cigarette lighter; the women also received 14-carat gold compact mirrors, and the men equivalently solid money clips.
1 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
The great scrape: FTSE firms erase 'DEI' from annual reports
Five years after the murder of George Floyd sparked the Black Lives Matter protests and a rush among corporates to champion diversity, analysis of annual reports by The Observer reveals a sharp decline in mentions of the terms \"diversity, equity and inclusion\" (DEI) by a majority of FTSE 100 companies.
3 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
The world's oldest party is in crisis – and we might just be sitting at its deathbed
With friends like Mel Stride, Kemi Badenoch does not need any more enemies.
4 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Mirror, mirror off the wall
We're forgetting how to experience life as we obsess over our image, says Melanie Reid
2 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Preacher, PR, ad boss – the unlikely CV of the evangelical Gazan aid leader
The head of the privatised relief operation backed by armed US contractors appears to have no direct experience of delivering aid, writes Ruth Michaelson, Middle East Correspondent
3 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Credit where credit is due – if you can find it
I keep hitting a brick wall with a misdirected payment of £2,000 that I made online.
2 min |
June 08, 2025
The Observer
Kremlin's 'drone boys' accused of killing civilians for sport
Anastasiya Pavlenko was attacked twice. She was cycling to the centre of Kherson when she noticed a drone was following her.
1 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Too many exams, too many pupils let down: Whitehall plans reset of GCSES
Strategy to help failing white working-class boys will be included in plans to rethink policy on exams and training. But how far will leaders be prepared to go?
5 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Secretive, militarised, chaotic: anger over failing aid mission for starving Gazans
Relief agencies fear that a controversial US-Israeli initiative to supply food is part of a plan to depopulate the territory, reports Ruth Michaelson, Middle East Correspondent
5 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Relying on China for essential rare earths is making us prisoners of a codependent war
Beijing has an iron grip on minerals that are crucial to weapons manufacturing, but the west must find a way of breaking free of it, writes James Kynge
3 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
The literary battle against AI is on: 'Real words from real people are so much better'
Book lovers weren't best pleased when The Observer presented them with a new debut novel created by ChatGPT at the Hay Festival this weekend, writes Vanessa Thorpe
6 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Trump's tech bro who slashed, crashed and then finally fell to Earth
Elon Musk thought he could shrink America's mighty federal bureaucracy. The signs are that he simply wasn't thinking straight, writes Giles Whittell
6 min |
June 01, 2025
The Observer
Up to 7,000 jobs at stake after PM gives way to Trump on bioethanol
Ministers will this week be sent a dossier urging “immediate” action to deal with a crisis threatening thousands of jobs in an industry that is critical to the UK’s net zero ambitions.
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