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  • Police clash with right wing protesters in Piccadilly Gardens on 3 August in Manchester.

    Dozens arrested in violent clashes across the country as government warns rioters ‘will pay the price’

    Disorder spread through multiple UK cities on Saturday with police warning that further violence is likely in the coming days
  • GPs protest in London to demand a salary increase on 27 June.

    Labour axes ‘gimmick’ anti-strike law as it plans major reset for workers’ rights

News

  • Rachel and Ian Broughton at their home in Tongue.

    Vandalism or the community’s future? Crofters feel ‘helpless’ in face of spaceport radar station

  • Man wrapped in a blanket looking out of a window on a Rainy Day

    Challenges to deprivation of liberty orders in England soar by a third

    Campaigners say vulnerable people receiving care are being deprived of their freedom in order to save money
  • An elderly lady holding a cup of tea at home in front of an electric fire

    UK pensioners left on ‘financial cliff edge’ by cuts to winter fuel payments

    New analysis shows tens of thousands of older people may end up worse off than those who retain energy benefit

  • ‘I worry about populist politics’: Mel Stride says even progressive voters should want a strong Tory party

  • ‘Worrying deterioration in safety’ at UK immigration removal centres, warns chief inspector of prisons

  • Trainee doctors in UK facing higher risk of burnout than during pandemic

  • Alfred the great puts St Lucia on map as GB Olympic medal surge continues

  • The far right has moved online, where its voice is more dangerous than ever

  • Algerian boxer at centre of gender row sheds tears after quarter-final victory

  • Free childcare pledge in England in peril after Tories ‘recklessly rushed out’ plan

  • Teachers’ regulator in England investigated after claims it has left teachers in distress

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World

  • Ruben Balagtas, in a tank top, shorts and flipflops, leans against the concrete post of metal gates on which are hung two signs in support of "Mayor Alice Guo", with houses and trees behind him

    Cognac, tortoises and a pink-striped helicopter: inside the mystery of Alice Guo, the missing Philippines mayor

    Investigation is ongoing into the identity of Alice Guo and her links to a compound housing human trafficking victims and offshore gaming operations
  • A clock, the silhouette of women sitting under a circular hanging and the sign "What if women ruled the world" are in a scene from the anti-war film Two Minutes to Midnight by Yael Bartana

    ‘Would a world run by women be a better place?’: Athens museum hosts a bold female takeover

  • A man rides past a billboard with portraits of slain leaders, Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, Iranian Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani (C), and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr on the road to Beirut airport on 3 August.

    UK prepares to evacuate civilians from Lebanon as Middle East conflict widens

  • On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide, the community in the old city of Sinjar hung the pictures of victims on the rubble.

    Iraq’s Yazidis gather to remember the dead and missing, 10 years on from Islamic State genocide

  • Marc Fogel’s family members rally outside the White House in July 2023 for his release from Russian detention since August 2021.

    ‘Soul-crushing’: US families of those left out of Russia prisoner swap dispirited

  • A teargas can lands in front of demonstrators during a protest against President Nicolás Maduro’s government in Caracas on Monday.

    ‘Maduro has lost the streets’: in Venezuela’s barrios, former loyal voters risk all in protests

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In focus

  • An oil storage facility ablaze in Hodeida, Yemen, after Israeli airstrikes in retaliation for a Houthi drone attack that killed a civilian in Tel Aviv.

    Hamas’s leader is dead, Iran vows revenge: can anything stop all-out war in the Middle East?

    The assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran humiliated Iran’s leaders, dashed hopes of a ceasefire and left the heavily armed nations of the Middle East moving inexorably closer to an all-out war they all claim not to want
  • Cross section of the Iter tokamak reactor

    Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

  • A composite image of a man with a large Trump flag and a woman holding up a giant Trump playing card.

    Inside the Maga mind: Trump’s most dedicated fans explain their fervor

  • A marble bust of Costanza Piccolomini

    Slashed with a knife: the tender sculpture that hides a shocking but common crime against women

  • Illustration of a man handing sunglasses to a woman.

    Voters to choose between two starkly different candidates in US ‘Armageddon election’

  • Rowan Moore

    Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives

    Rowan Moore
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Comment

  • Jane Martinson

    A powerful man given free rein and indulged, Huw Edwards is proof the BBC hasn’t changed

    Jane Martinson
  • Rowan Moore

    Ignore the Livids of Tunbridge Wells and build homes, but build them well

    Rowan Moore
  • Torsten Bell

    Housebuilding is a route to bigger, better homes for all, not just the rich

    Torsten Bell

  • We know Trump is weird – it’s time for the Democrats to get creative with the insults

    Catherine Bennett

  • The BMA’s stance on puberty blockers defies the key principle of medicine: first, do no harm

    Sonia Sodha

  • Britain has shifted away from prejudice, but are we facing a dangerous new time?

    Sunder Katwala

  • Chris Riddell on Nigel Farage and his dogwhistle politics – cartoon

  • Putting a stop to far-right violence is an early, defining test of Keir Starmer’s mettle

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • The way, the truth and the Olympic record: how God struck gold in Paris

    Emma John

  • I swear by almighty river: an ancient practice is making a comeback in Britain’s courts

    Tim Adams

  • Rupert Murdoch’s secret succession drama is a warning to rein in the super-rich

    Will Hutton
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Editorials & Letters

  • President Joe Biden looks on as Evan Gershkovich, released from detention in Russia, is greeted by his mother Ella Milman.

    The Observer view on the US-Russia prisoner swap: release brought joy but there is a downside too

  • A show of community as residents hand out flowers outside the Southport mosque as a gester of friendship after the violent attacks.

    The Observer view on the riots after the Southport killings: extremists have launched an assault on the rule of law

    The responsibilty falls not only on the government, our actions make a difference too
  • Maeve Boothby-O’Neill

    ME: we need more funding and more research

    Letters: people with myalgic encephalomyelitis and their carers are calling for a reversal of decades of underfunding
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Business & Cash

  • young women in caps and gowns

    ‘I’d be better off if I hadn’t been to uni’: UK graduates tell of lives burdened by student loans

  • William Keegan

    Britain didn’t vote Labour just to get a new iron chancellor

    William Keegan
  • Man holding small insect

    British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming

  • Three young women eating ice cream cones on a street by the River Thames in London

    Sun, sea and sales … Britain’s delayed summer arrives to thaw the retail chill

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Sport

  • Ewan Murray in Paris

    Extortionate launderettes and sub-par coffee: seven days at the Olympics

    Ewan Murray in Paris
  • Thierry Henry points a finger at full-time.

    Thierry Henry harnesses Olympic flame to stake claim for France job

    The former Arsenal striker has repaired his reputation as a coach by guiding the hosts to the last four at Paris 2024
  • Jonathan Trott batting in the nets

    From Mott to Trott? England’s new coach contenders provide dilemma

    Flintoff, Sangakkara, Fleming and Trott have all been linked with England as they bid to revive white-ball fortunes

  • Julien Alfred rips up 100m script to write her name into Olympic history

  • Katie Ledecky holds off Ariarne Titmus to win fourth Olympic 800m gold in row

  • Femke Bol stuns with bolt from blue on Olympic night short of star power

  • Asher-Smith shocked by semi-final exit as Fraser-Pryce absence fuels rumours

  • Julien Alfred puts Sha’Carri Richardson in shade to win women’s Olympic 100m

  • Ornate chaos of Montmartre delivers pain and pleasure in men’s road race

  • Remco Evenepoel beats late puncture to take historic Olympic road race gold

  • Scott Parker suffers the yo-yo curse of British manager at next stop Burnley

    Jonathan Wilson
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Reviews

  • Joan Chen and Izaac Wang sitting facing each other across a table at a diner.

    Dìdi review – bittersweet Asian American coming-of-age drama

  • The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and Songs for Ukraine Chorus at St Paul's Cathedral

    The week in classical: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra; Three Choirs festival; Prom 16 – review

  • Simone Biles; Tom Daley and Noah Williams; Alex Yee; Adam Peaty

    The week in TV: Paris Olympics 2024; Atomic People; Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy; House of the Dragon – review

  • a composite of four images from My Neighbour Totoro; Spirited Away; Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

    Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us

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New Review

  • From top left: Brittany Howard; Channel Tres, Calvin Harris, the Cavemen, Frank Ocean, Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Chappell Roan, Joe Talbot of Idles.

    New summer classics playlist: 15 artists pick sunshine tracks

    From road-trip energy to lazy-days vibes, artists including Nia Archives, Joe Goddard, Beabadoobee, Arlo Parks and Lias Saoudi name the best summer tunes of the past decade
  • Sam Altman with a digital design overlaid on his face

    OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid

  • Darcus Beese with his arm around his mother Barbara, who is smiling at him

    Darcus Howe’s son Darcus Beese and his activist mother, Barbara: ‘He was imbued with the spirit of the struggle’

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a cat with a blue collar leaning to the left and a dog with a red collar leaning to the right.

    Republicans beware: weaponising pets is a political minefield

    Stewart Lee
  • Edna O’Brien.

    ‘She did not suffer a fool or hypocrite and loved a good laugh’: novelist Edna O’Brien

  • A headshot of Nathan Thrall in his studio with bookshelves behind him.

    Nathan Thrall: ‘The scale and brutality of the Israeli response in Gaza hasn’t surprised me, no’

  • The frogs may be gone, but life goes on: how I regained my faith in gardening for wildlife

  • The big picture: Paula Bronstein on the plight of Rohingya refugees

  • Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

  • Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol: ‘I believe Mars still has some big surprises for us’

  • Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy

    John Naughton

  • On my radar: Sue Perkins’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Paris Paloma

  • ‘People of all ages get very emotional at our gigs’: how ‘trad punk’ folk band the Mary Wallopers became a live sensation

Magazine

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    ‘It’s just raw profiteering’: the people refusing to pay their water bills in response to the sewage crisis

    People across England and Wales are refusing to pay for water companies to dispose of sewage after sharp increases in spills
  • Nadia wears suit by lisou.co.uk; top by uk.maje.com; and jewellery by Phase (@phase._)

    ‘We need to be seen’: Nadia Nadarajah on portraying Shakespeare’s greatest heroines – as a deaf actor

  • Girl Boss mug

    Smashing the girlboss myths: how women are doing ambition on their own terms

  • Eva Wiseman

    Why are we so drawn to the ‘tradwife’ fantasy?

    Eva Wiseman
  • (c) heatherchuter HCP8517-Edit

    Questions of life and death: life on the streets and how a pub quiz saved me

  • Casper Henderson shot for OM

    ‘Ear-marvellous’: how to enjoy the music and sounds of the world that surrounds us

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for plum and apricot chutney, and plums with ginger crumbs and ice-cream

  • Almost all nursery rhymes are utter doggerel and I loathe them, sadly my daughter doesn’t

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • The new liquid blushers make beauty into art

  • Notes on chocolate: an outrageous tuck-box treat

  • Exploring the quieter side of the Cyclades on a Greek island hopping holiday

  • Sunday with Reggie Yates: ‘I sometimes have three pints of healthy ice-cream’

  • Youth culture’s ‘identity crisis’, 1985

  • Wines to capture the taste of the ocean

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Observer Food Monthly

  • 20 best easy summer salads

    The 20 best easy summer salad recipes

    From Nigella Lawson’s lemony prawns and Nigel Slater’s noodles with pickled ginger to classics such as potato and pasta salads, these dishes are pure summer
  • Friends toasting at dinner party<br>Group of friends toasting and laughing while having dinner outside

    Refreshing, thirst-quenching, distinctive: 20 best wines for the summer

  • OFM Nigel Beetroot Watercress Crab Toasts Nigel Slater Observer Food Monthly OFM July 2024

    Nigel Slater’s recipes for salads to share

  • Food and music illustration Observer Food Monthly OFM JULY 2024

    My search for the perfect veg – from my greenhouse to the Cotswolds and even into orbit

  • Sarit Packer, Itamar Srulovich, Honey Spencer and Ravinder Bhogal Set design and styling: Victoria Twyman Hair and makeup (Ravinder) and Grooming (Itamar): Neusa Neves at Arlington Artists using Lisa Eldridge makeup and Aveda hair care. Hair and makeup (Sarit and Honey): Juliana Sergot using Bobbi Brown &amp; Kiehl's OFM Summer Taste Test 2024 Observer Food Monthly

    Welcome to July’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Baked Bass, Fennel, Courgette and Tomato Gratin, Tapenade Dressing Nathan Outlaw Cornish Summer Recipes Food and prop styling: Polly Webb-Wilson Observer Food Monthly OFM July 2024

    Baked bass, saffron rice, cherry fool – Nathan Outlaw’s Cornish summer recipes

  • Angela Hartnett’s secret ingredient – peperoncino

  • Asma Khan: ‘Food is deeply political. Who eats and who doesn’t? Who owns the land?’

  • Summer picnic taste test: ice-creams, gelato, cones and sorbets

  • Summer picnic taste test: rosés, cremants and pet nats

  • Summer picnic taste test: quiche, olives, sausage rolls and more

  • This changeable weather is playing havoc with my appetite, so I’m eating summer-winter food

    Rachel Cooke

  • Comedian Fern Brady: ‘I went to get hypnotised out of eating bread’

  • I know how to improve the Olympics. First up, the burger-stacking contest

    Jay Rayner
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