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82 days ago

PM gives clearest indication yet of comeback, calling former deputy ‘the best social mobility story’ the country has seen

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Keir Starmer has predicted that Angela Rayner…

3 months ago

Cooke, 56, who worked for the Observer for 25 years, was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and died on Friday

Tributes have been paid to the journalist and critic Rachel Cooke after her death fr…

7 months ago

Raynor Winn’s bestselling book is far from the first time a true story has been called into question after publication. But how does it happen? And should readers really feel betrayed?

“The Salt Path …

Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right

When it comes to best-practice examples in the housing debate, Vienna is a commo…

10 months ago

As the Observer affixes an ‘under new management’ sign to its crosswords, your questions are answered

It’s known in every newsroom that a paper making almost any mistake is preferable to dealing with …

An altruistic companion to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks aims to encourage anyone with a conscience to stop being a spectator

Many years ago there was a BBC children’s TV programme called Why

An Afghan exile’s account of life in war-torn Kabul and a Taliban-dominated refugee camp is an unflinching study of how radicalisation takes root, and his own renunciation of it

Born in Kabul, Maiwand…

In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at technology conference Ted, where she gave her first – life-chang…

Zink’s seventh novel, about a night of conversation and adventure, is full of wit and marvellous writing, but ultimately trails off

California-born, Berlin-based Nell Zink is an idiosyncratic writer. …

Robin McKie reflects on his 40 years as science editor for the Observer and tells Madeleine Finlay about the game-changing discoveries and scientific controversies that he’s reported on during that t…

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