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The Observer
Ousted president urges Bosnian Serbs towards 'Mother Russia'
Fears that separatist Dodik will fracture delicate 30-year peace
3 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Redwoods take root in UK plan to meet climate crisis targets
Labour's Trees Action Plan featuring resilient woodlands is a boon to timber industry and will 'restore' nature
3 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
"He redefined Britishness as something freedom-loving
When Tom Stoppard visited the refugee camp in Calais once known as the Jungle, where thousands waited to cross the Channel, he was asked by a journalist whether it was possible that Britain's goodwill was being exploited by would-be immigrants and asylum seekers.
2 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Jill Freud
Actor and political wife, mother of five and inspiration for CS Lewis's Lucy Pevensie was 'a force of nature'
4 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Labour's holiday homework: solve the problem of special needs education
We spend lavishly on a failing system - but reforming it will be a bruising political battle
4 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Macron's call to arms: France prepares its young to face future Russian threat
President's decision to bring back military service comes after moves by Poland and Germany to send Moscow a message
3 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Behind every great leader... The rise and fall of the superadviser, and the future of Morgan McSweeney
From Rasputin to Cummings, aides have stepped out of the shadows at their peril. Tom Baldwin asks whether Keir Starmer's has made the same mistake
9 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
That's all, folks! Warner Bros goes up for auction
A century after its founding, Warner Bros is on the block.
2 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
What is the point of this Labour government? The budget offered no compelling answer
Something else missing from both this budget and the government more generally is a consistent and convincing programme for driving up the productivity of the public sector.
4 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Campbell's loses its cool after an executive bad-mouths the food
\"Shit for fucking poor people\" is not a slogan that Campbell's would choose for marketing its products, which were once made cool by Andy Warhol.
1 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Defending trial by jury is crucial in a society where democracy is being eroded
David Lammy’s proposals to reduce the public’s role in criminal cases will further undermine trust in a justice system already under strain
4 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Nell Gwyn's naughty book pops up at auction
Naked body parts leap off the page of the only book believed to have belonged to the 17th-century courtesan
3 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
Sunday and now every day
Issue No. 12.208
2 min |
November 30, 2025
The Observer
I wouldn't touch Starmer with a barge pole. He's completely untrustworthy
In the first of a new weekly series in which we ask a public figure to take us on a walk of significance, Rachel Sylvester, our political editor strolls through London's Stoke Newington with Zack Polanski. The leader of the Greens talks about tax hikes, leaving Nato and why former Labour politicians are welcome to join his party
8 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Short-beaked echidna
Old does not mean primitive. Let's get that straight at once. Sure, we're mammals and sure, we lay eggs, which makes us unusual in the late Holocene but that doesn't mean we're backward.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Help with cost of living to make tax smorgasboard easier to swallow
These have been the leakiest, most fevered pre-budget weeks in modern British political history.
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
It's not easy being green: high energy costs threaten UK's net zero business endeavours
Missed decarbonisation targets, high prices and political uncertainty are seeing Labour's bid to make the nation a clean utility 'superpower' drift off into the ether.
8 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
The trail of bad decisions and delays that led to 23,000 avoidable deaths
As the second official report into Britain's Covid response is made public, a story emerges of a government failing to heed warnings and a first lockdown that was too little, too late.
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Europeans rush to foil Ukraine deal favouring Kremlin
Kyiv's allies seek to thwart Trump negotiator's peace plan that gives in to Russian demands and turns the screw on embattled Zelensky
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
'We saw so many bodies that we lost count': uncovering the hidden horror of El Fasher
Using eyewitness reports, satellite images and social media videos, Isabel Coles and Fred Harter record the carnage when RSF fighters seized the famine-stricken capital of Sudan's North Darfur
10 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
It's not easy being green: high energy costs threaten UK's net zero business endeavours
Missed decarbonisation targets, high prices and political uncertainty are seeing Labour's bid to make the nation a clean utility 'superpower' drift off into the ether.
6 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
My lost afternoon with Elisabeth Lederer
I will come on to the eye-watering price shortly, but let's start with the art. Is the painting any good?
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
The Lords they are a-leaping as vandals in ermine do their damnedest to frustrate ministers
Andrew Rawnsley
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
300 Catholic children kidnapped in latest school abduction
More than 300 schoolchildren and 12 teachers are thought to have been abducted by gunmen from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, making it one of the country’s worst mass abductions.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
We need a new temperance movement to beat our addiction to screens
Walk into any cafe today and you'll see it: heads bowed, eyes glazed, fingers flicking endlessly. We've quickly become used to this image, but from a historian’s perspective it’s astounding how quickly it happened - a radical transformation in the way we relate to one another.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Prioritise happiness as a small act of rebellion
Sometimes tuning out the world is the only way to stay positive, writes Melanie Reid
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
forecasts shouldn't make the weather for the chancellor
Budget Responsibility (OBR) since 2010. That means we no longer need to worry about the Treasury fudging the forecast when it is politically advantageous. Instead, we've ended up in a world where OBR's minor forecasting judgments are having an outsized impact on policy. This is not a good place to be.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Marjorie Taylor Greene
One of the defining characteristics of radical or extremist politics is the head-spinning speed with which devout loyalists are recast as dangerous heretics.
5 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Competition challenges lie ahead for Mail’s Telegraph bid
Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) is in exclusive talks to buy its rival, the Telegraph, in a deal that would create the most powerful right-leaning media group in Britain.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
MPs prepare to quiz BBC board over competence and conflict of interest
After the resignation from the governing body of 'the guy who most took on' Robbie Gibb, a select committee will tomorrow seek clarity on the political appointee's agenda, writes Ceri Thomas
3 min |