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The Observer
Brazil's frail democracy puts the shining city upon a hill in the shade
Brazil's capital was built with democracy in mind.
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Operation Ingratiate takes more risks with Starmer's embattled reputation
Ronald Reagan, winner of the Cold War, was content with just the one. Barack Obama, who bagged a Nobel Peace Prize, was likewise happy with a single. So at the beginning of the week in which Donald Trump will be lavished with the pomp and pageantry of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK, it is worth asking why we are going to be put through such a toe-curling spectacle of flummery and fawning.
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Mandelson came to praise Brexit. Merck just buried it
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Charlie Kirk killing puts America to the test over the freedom to disagree
There’s a risk that political violence becomes a weapon in the culture wars
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
David Baltimore
'Giant discoveries' in molecular biology won him a Nobel prize and a stellar reputation among US scientists
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Starmer can forget Mandelson and his flaws but not what he stood for
Rachel Sylvester
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Eli Lilly joins big pharma fallout over drug prices
Select committee calls emergency meeting as CEOs 'livid with the UK' after talks with government crash over NHS rebates, writes Barney Macintyre
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Back of the fenêtre: football's toughest spot kick is through a French window
The shootout in a Paris suburb began as a viral trick that Messi fluffed. It’s now a reminder of the pure joy of the sport
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
The important relationship
Trump craves our attention; Europe deserves it
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Sondos' choice: stay and risk Israel's bombings or flee and lose her home
The question on the mind of Sondos Jabr is whether she and her family can afford to be displaced once again.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Botanists unlock the Chilean medical marvel that Charles Darwin missed
Vaccine properties of the soapbark tree to be cultivated in days rather than years by new process
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Martian 'rock spots' breathe new life into Nasa mission
Rover's discovery of a 'potential biosignature' has excited scientists
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
All they want for Christmas is a KPop doll. But no one told Santa
In the Elsa doll wars of 2014, the shortage of merch from Disney's hit film Frozen sparked fist fights in Times Square and a fully fledged riot in Dublin. This Christmas, it’s going to be so much worse ~ there will not be a single KPop Demon Hunters doll in stores unless Netflix finds a supernatural ally.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Confessions of a serial over-sharer
Sarah Manavis
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Nigel Farage is wary of the far right, and with good reason
There will be much debate about how many people attended the demonstration organised yesterday by Tommy Robinson, but there were a lot.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Will a total ban on all Democrats come next? I wouldn't be surprised
The coldblooded murder of Charlie Kirk evoked many emotions.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Snoop Dogg's firm backs UK cannabis clinic with £4.5m
A US-based venture capital firm co-founded by Snoop Dogg has invested £4.5m in the UK's leading medical cannabis clinic. Mamedica, which launched in 2022 and is based in London, says it has 7,500 active patients under care for a range of chronic and neurological conditions, and is on track to double its patient base this year.
1 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Barclays may whinge, but paying more tax won't break the banks
A bank windfall tax may be hard for Reeves to resist, despite the warnings of CS Venkatakrishnan, the Barclays boss. Getty headline
1 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Netanyahu opens new front with Qatar strike – but his toughest battle is at home
Latest Israeli bombing is tied to keeping prime minister in power, as he and his far-right allies face growing anger over the fate of hostages
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
A buzz, silence, a blue light… then utter devastation. The lethal Russian drones wreaking havoc in Ukraine
Citizens fall asleep every night to the constant hum of killing machines that turn buildings to dust and snuff out lives.
5 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
Musical chairs: Keir Starmer ushers in a new cabinet of trusted 'fixers and doers'
The prime minister's reshuffle signals a clear determination to tackle issues such as immigration and welfare by putting the ministers he considers most effective in charge, writes Rachel Sylvester
4 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
She listened to Grenfell's bereaved and then acted. Rayner had pure class — our class Kimia Zabihyan
Unlike her predecessors as housing minister, she confronted the issue of dismantling the tower and demolition has now started
5 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
Back to petroleum
In 2020, BP told the world that it cared about climate change. Today, it is doubling down on oil and gas. This is the story of how financial markets gave up on net zero and how an aggressive US hedge fund helped pressure Britain's best-known energy company to abandon its green ambitions
10+ min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
Vespillo burying beetle
Some say that powerful scents bring back the past. Not me. In that single moment of gorgeous olfaction I smelled a glorious future. All the hope in the world was revealed by the scent that wafted towards me on the gentlest breeze. There was a corpse out there, a good mile off, and I knew at once that it would bring me all the joy and happiness a beetle is capable of.
2 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
The six warning signs as crypto is welcomed into the US mainstream
In a single week, the Trump family have increased their on-paper wealth by more than $6.5bn after Eric and Don Jr's crypto company American Bitcoin debuted on the Nasdaq and the family's stablecoin venture, World Liberty Financial, started selling tokens. As their enrichment continues, Richard Lambert examines the history of market hysteria and why crypto's rise under this president has all the alarm bells ringing
10 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
Zack Polanski
Last week, Zack Polanski, a 42-year-old gay Jewish vegan, became leader of the Green party with a promise to turn it into a leftwing version of Reform UK.
6 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
In a show of power, China's strange bedfellows signal a new world order
After two striking images in China, Rana Mitter asks whether we've just witnessed the start of the Asian century
5 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
CEOs face same censure as stars over crimes and misdemeanours
Not so long ago, America’s puritanical attitude to CEO naughtiness was regarded on this side of the Atlantic as an oddity.
1 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
Keironomics marks start of Whitehall reshaping of state
The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was the still point of the turning world in cabinet but, around her, economic and social policy is shifting.
2 min |
September 07, 2025
The Observer
British identity is complex – it can't be neatly tied in red, white and blue
The current debate over what it means to fly the national flag is not as important as the common values we want to ascribe to it
6 min |