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The Observer
Faulty and inaccessible defibrillators linked to dozens of deaths
On a Saturday afternoon in early November last year, the members of Beauchief Tennis Club in Sheffield were taking part in their annual winter league.
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November 23, 2025
The Observer
Behind the wheel I’m free. That irks some people
Motability for disabled people is no freebie, says Melanie Reid - it's sweet independence
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Reform's record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad
Two thirds of funds given to Nigel Farage's party this parliament have come donors with overseas interests
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Trump’s favourite for Fed chair gets a cool reception from Wall Street
Donald Trump’s search for a new chairman of the Federal Reserve seemed to reach a conclusion last week — at least until Wall Street lobbying against his presumed choice put the announcement on ice.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Will the leftish parties unite to stop Nigel Farage from becoming PM?
It's time to start thinking about electoral pacts - though now it's near impossible to see how a bargain would be struck
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
‘The Greens are anti-Nato and think it’s all right to sell drugs. That’s nuts’
Keir Starmer says the thing he misses most as prime minister is taking long, solitary hikes in the countryside.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Riddled with bullet holes and grief, Sangin has no choice but to remember the British
'Kill or capture' raids and 'call-out procedures' that ended in unexplained deaths in Afghanistan are at the heart of the hearing into war crimes. Oliver Marsden tours a still traumatised land
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Aid in a post-aid world
In a world where much foreign policy is in Trumpian disarray, it is hard to spare a thought for multilateralism - just another victim in a global road crash.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
A year after Assad, Syria and the world wait to see if Sharaa is democrat or despot
As a grocer's son turned jihadist warlord marks the anniversary of his toppling of the regime, a shattered country still fears his intentions, report Ruth Michaelson and Saad Alnassife in Damascus
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Nicolai Tangen: 'Even if AI is a bad bubble, it's directing capital toward change'
The CEO of Norges says markets are 'very hot' and this time it is different from the dotcom crisis, AI will be transformative, he says, but will create inequalities between developed and poorer nations
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Dear Donald
Make Advice Great Again Britain! This is your President, DONALD J. TRUMP !! I know you have a King, but let's be real.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Andreas Whittam Smith
The founder of the Independent was also a liberal film censor and a church financier with moral courage
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Spotify rapped: results don't reflect what we've listened to, say critics
They grow up so fast.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Starmer needs to stop sweating the small stuff and be bold on Europe
Imagine seeing someone in the street being beaten up by a mob, and even those who arrive to help aiming a few punches and kicks of their own at the victim's head because, they say, his assailants have some \"legitimate concerns\".
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Julian Lloyd Webber believed his life as a cellist was over. A lost decade later, he's scaling back up
An injury appeared to have cost the virtuoso his career. But after a chance remark, and some secret practising, he is set for a comeback, writes Vanessa Thorpe
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
FA pressed to close loophole on club owners' football betting
The Football Association is under pressure to close a loophole that lets football club owners bet on the game.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
When Donny met Gianni: how the World Cup led to an unlikely bromance - and a new peace prize
Out in the Egyptian desert, the world’s leaders were waiting.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Finally, a sex scene filmed in the right place: behind a high street bin
I went to watch Pillion the other day and, instead of being revolted or turned on by the BDSM scenes, I felt European pride.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Betting on fiscal drag won't help the chancellor balance the economy
A horse called Fiscal Drag was unplaced in a race at the Aqueduct race track in New York last Saturday.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
The landlords making millions from vulnerable adults' benefits
Investigation uncovers abuses in supported housing sector that 'would leave Charles Dickens lost for words'
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Eurovision finally faces its Waterloo as four nations quit in protest at Israel's inclusion
After seven decades of oom-pah-pah, the song contest is now riven by political disharmony, with Gaza the last straw
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Netflix takeover of Warner Bros meets fierce backlash
Any list of epically bad business decisions should include John Antioco, then chief executive of DVD rental giant Blockbuster, turning down the chance to buy Netflix for $50m in September 2000, saying “the dotcom hysteria is completely overblown”.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Do we dare read Sally Rooney… or is that too an act of terror?
By publicly supporting Palestine Action, authors and their readers could be in breach of the law
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Trump crowns himself world king... but kindly lets Russia and China rule their fiefdoms
If the rest of the world wasn't already scared about what the presidency of Donald Trump means for us all, they certainly are now.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
A reluctant starchitect who made poetry in solid form
Architecture critic Rowan Moore traces the legacy of Frank Gehry, who died on Friday at 96
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Al is the mother of reinvention
Accenture is used to being laughed at for its linguistic gymnastics.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
UK 'flying blind' in key policy areas thanks to unreliable official data
The UK is increasingly \"flying blind\" in key policy areas as the quality of official statistics declines, experts have warned.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Blockbuster Netflix deal fuels fears that end credits could roll for cinema
A takeover of Warner Bros may give viewers more choice but only on small screens
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Britain is lagging in the global AI race ... and these are the damning reasons why
The UK is a world leader in research and training, yet much of the talent fostered here vanishes abroad in search of better opportunities.
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December 07, 2025
The Observer
Jonathan Anderson
With yet another design award in the bag, Dior's new man is making history, says Victoria Moss
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