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The Observer
Forty years on: Radiohead stick to principles to delight the cognoscenti
Radiohead's singer Thom Yorke doesn't speak much during the band's long-awaited return to the UK stage on Friday. But when he does, it's to chivvy along whoever should be raising the electronic panels encasing the band.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
'The Klimt, caller, is yours...
A painting that saved its sitter's life – and may save the art market - hit a record price of $205m. But who bought it?
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Ticket touting ban may backfire
Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles, among other musicians, welcomed the government's new policy on ticket touting, announced last week.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Algeria's protest poet will need more than awards to avoid a life in prison
When the protests in Algeria began in 2019 - protests that would bring down the president, but not the regime - Mohamed Tadjadit was a fruit seller who wrote poems in his spare time.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Irish stouts do battle for a space at the bar
Anyone for a 'creamy Beamy?' Guinness is no longer the only dark beer in town. By
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
'Amateur diplomat' Steve Witkoff has swallowed Putin's line
Marco Rubio has many jobs in the second Trump administration. He is secretary of state, national security adviser and even chief archivist, having also until recently been the administrator of USAID.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
We knew full well that the bodies were going to pile high around us
\"It's frightfully easy to come up with an inquiry after the event, looking back with hindsight,\" opined Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the Conservative MP and chair of the public accounts committee, on Times Radio last week. \"I think it's just rewriting history.
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
More MEPS investigated in Russian bribe probe
Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales and ex-MEP, was sentenced on Friday at the Old Bailey to 10 and a half years after pleading guilty to bribery for taking money to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Crypto president needs to make bitcoin great again
Trump, pump, dump: three words to sum up the past year for bitcoin.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
UK set to raise prices of drugs in US agreement
Proposed medicine hikes are 'necessary', says science minister Patrick Vallance, to continue attracting investment in UK pharma, writes Barney Macintyre
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Trump tries to scrub away his 'blackest mark', the Capitol riot
The president's threat to sue the BBC is part of an attempt to rewrite his role in the 2021 siege. Hugh Tomlinson reports from Washington
5 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Madrid clubs kick off elite football's investors search
Where Real Madrid leads, other clubs tend to follow both on and off the pitch. But for once it is its city neighbour, Atlético, who appears to be setting a trend.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Climate summit ends in anger as Cop30 deal fails to mention oil, coal or gas
A tentative plan setting out steps for the world to transition away from fossil fuels was announced at UN climate talks yesterday - but only after language relating to oil, coal and gas was stripped out of the official agreement.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Eyes in the sky: gamers called up as army bets on march of the drones
Years honing games console skills have paid off for soldiers chosen to fight a virtual battle on Salisbury Plain
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Brussels relaxes Al rules as Trump plays up to tech titans
If artificial intelligence ends up doing humanity more harm than good, last week may be seen as a significant turning point.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Freemasons' PR drive is a sign of panic
After centuries of secret handshakes, the society is seeking to rebrand itself in a bid to halt falling membership in the UK
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
The BBC should stand up to Trump's bullying
Instead of behaving like a bunch of headless chickens (“So just who led the BBC into its darkest hour”, News, last week) I suggest that the board should counter sue Donald Trump over his press secretary's assertion that the BBC is “100% fake news”.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
I screamed, I clapped, I found my perfect game
In her bid to find a sport to fall in love with, Marie Le Conte is won over by ice hockey
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Goldman seeks funds for expansion of Gail’s
The year 2019 was an annus horribilis for Luke Johnson.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Unmasked
Thousands of deaths were avoidable. Remember that
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Nvidia eases fears but Al bubble-watchers are still not convinced
Never before has so much money hung on a single quarterly earnings report. Investors have been fretting for weeks about whether chip-making giant Nvidia would meet the market's exalted expectations or fall short and potentially pop what many fear is a massive stock market bubble based on excessive optimism about the economic benefits of AI.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
After Starmer & Co gave up the EU ghost, their reset was doomed to become an upset
It need not have been like this. Had prime minister Starmer and chancellor Reeves had the courage of their previous convictions they would not have been forced to adapt their earlier plan for a two-term government into a desperate struggle, fighting for their own political survival.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Alice and Ellen Kessler
Identical twin song-and-dance duo chose assisted dying and requested their remains be kept in the same urn
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Johnson and Cummings attack the Covid judge
Ex-prime minister tries to discredit inquiry but is accused of attempt to 'rewrite history'
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
The real crisis Britain faces isn't immigration but a profound breakdown in trust
Kenan Malik
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Latin America fears US 'sabre-rattling' is about regime change not drugs
This week, the USS Gerald R Ford — the world’s largest aircraft carrier — arrived in the Caribbean.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Tearful stars and fan videos strap a rocket to Wicked 2's broomstick
The plodding sequel is going stratospheric thanks to a slew of memes rather than its official campaign
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Meloni and the Libyan warlord: how Italy freed an alleged mass murderer in order to secure its borders
In January 2025, a man stepped off an Italian government jet in Tripoli and disappeared back into the shadows of one of the world's most brutal migration control systems.
7 min |
November 16, 2025
The Observer
'Among her gifts was a talent for seeing through bullshit'
Rachel was one of the great journalists of our time.
1 min |
November 16, 2025
The Observer
Chinese firm owns publisher that axed Sarah Ferguson book
The publisher of Sarah Ferguson's recently cancelled children's book is owned by a Chinese state company.
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