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  • Three children.

    Archbishop of Canterbury urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap

    Head of Church of England Justin Welby tells Observer that ending policy would lift thousands of children out of poverty
  • British chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt.

    Jeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts

News

  • Benny Gantz

    Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan

  • Protesters during a paddle-out in Falmouth organised by Surfers Against Sewage.

    ‘Clean water is a basic right’: protesters against sewage in seas and rivers gather across the UK

    Surfers and families vent their frustration with water companies after more news of poisoned drinking water and polluted lakes
  • Poster in a window showing a sliced Domino's pizza with pepperoni and the words "£4 lunch"

    £4 Dominos and £5 KFC: health fears as fast food lunch becomes ‘workplace appropriate’

    Low-price deals in UK mean consumers are eating less-nourishing food more frequently, say experts

  • ‘Is this what people wear now?’ Sewing Bee host criticises M&S jumpers and socks

  • ‘Once you take choice away, there’s nothing left’: assisted dying edges closer in Jersey, but can they protect against a ‘duty to die’?

  • OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher

  • Fears of new Windrush as thousands of UK immigrants face ‘cliff edge’ visa change

  • ‘It lowers inhibition’: how saunas are challenging UK pubs as the place to meet

  • Centrist Tories urge Andy Street to stand for parliament – and maybe one day for leader

  • Revealed: locum GPs in England can’t find work as surgeries buckle under patient demand

  • ‘Why must I be a doctor, solicitor and detective?’: lost records block compensation for infected blood victims

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World

  • men stand by their belongings by water

    Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

    Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 people killed in flash floods
  • Policemen guard the area as they wait for the suspect in the shooting of Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, to be brought to court in Pezinok, Slovakia.

    Suspect in court as Putin’s friends capitalise on shooting of Slovakian PM Robert Fico

  • A mural depicting author Gabriel Gárcia Márquez in Aracataca.

    Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown

  • Leonid Volkov watches a session of the European parliament in Strasbourg, France

    Navalny ally says he will ‘never give up’ in fight against Putin

  • A mural shows the jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip in April 2023.

    Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’

  • Ursula von der Leyen.

    Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections

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In focus

  • Gordon Brown at a multibank warehouse in Fife

    ‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal

    A quarter of Britain’s children live below the poverty line. Near his Fife home, the former PM shows how charities help families and says this issue must be a priority for any government
  • Children's playground elephant in Glenrothes Housing Estate, Fife, Scotland, UK.<br>2JN7RYM Children's playground elephant in Glenrothes Housing Estate, Fife, Scotland, UK.

    We can easily end child poverty in the UK. Here are five things to know

  • Adam Driver in Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis.

    The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?

  • Artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III at the unveiling of Yeo's portrait in Buckingham Palace

    Too bald, too mad, too red … How royal portraits get it so wrong

  • Britney Spears performs during the Now! 99.7 Triple Ho Show 7.0 at SAP Center in 2016 in San Jose, California.

    #FreeBritney movement resurges after star’s hotel fight sparks conservatorship fears

  • Peter Abbott’s abusive tirade was captured on video by the subject of his anger, TV producer Samantha Isaacs, from inside her car.

    The rage epidemic: is our modern world fuelling aggression?

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Comment

  • Louise Tickle

    Meet Becky, aged 14, suicidal, alone and unwanted. Victim of a cruel, uncaring state

    Louise Tickle
  • Illustration of a wounded Russian bear crushing Kharkiv

    Chris Riddell on Russia’s advance on Kharkiv – cartoon

    It may be wounded but, with China’s backing, the bear is feeling bullish
  • The Olympic and Paralympic mascots, like red Phrygian caps on legs, pose on a quayside, with yachts in the background.

    You think Parisians grumble a lot? Don’t get them started on the Olympic Games

    Robert McLiam Wilson
    From price rises to a ridiculous mascot, the French have had it up
    to here with the event

  • I’m passionate about the future of Glasgow School of Art’s glorious Mackintosh building, not just its past

    Rowan Moore

  • Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?

    Simon Tisdall

  • Brexit Britain may export lots of services, but selling things it makes is harder

    Torsten Bell

  • Isolated abroad, divided at home: now Rafah poses a stark choice for Israel

    Dahlia Scheindlin

  • Urgent memo to Sir Keir Starmer: there are some offers which should be refused

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Righteous fury over Gaza must allow empathy for fearful Jewish students

    Sonia Sodha

  • Faith groups want more say in secular Britain. Labour should tell them to go to hell

    Catherine Bennett

  • National sovereignty is little defence against the global hunt for profits

    Kenan Malik
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Editorials & Letters

  • For the record

  • A girl plays with a jigsaw at a Sure Start nursery.

    The Observer view on child poverty: Labour must tackle this scourge as soon as possible

    Growing up in a poor household is one of the biggest barriers to opportunity, yet it affects millions of children
  • outside view of the houses of parliament

    The Observer view on abortion: abolish this archaic law that makes criminals of innocent women

    MPs have the chance to end the traumatic prosecutions of women suspected of ending their pregnancies
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Business & Cash

  • Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping review a guard of honour in Beijing on 16 May.

    If Putin wins in Ukraine, the British economy will be in the firing line

    Phillip Inman
  • A gardener is seen through a gap in flowering shrubs

    UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain

  • Rick de Blaby at the site of the Elephant central site in London.

    ‘It will take two decades to fix the housing crisis’: The developer reshaping south London

  • An old car being lowered into a car crusher by a crane, seen from below

    Ulez scrappage scheme snarl-ups leave motorists facing crunch

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Sport

  • Oleksandr Usyk holds a Ukrainian flag as he celebrates with the undisputed heavyweight title belt following victory over Tyson Fury

    Oleksandr Usyk digs deep in thriller to down Tyson Fury and unite titles

  • Shane Lowry looks at Justin Rose after his 62 at Valhalla

    Morikawa and Schauffele end third day of US PGA at top as Lowry equals record

    Xander Schauffele kept himself in contention for his first major while Shane Lowry missed a birdie putt that would have made major history
  • Jonathan Wilson

    Bigger, yes, but better? Pep Guardiola tweaks template for latest City kick to line

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Guardiola had not heard of Stefan Ortega before Manchester City move

  • Arsenal should have no crisis of faith if they miss out on title

  • Manchester United in better position than last year, says Erik ten Hag

  • Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool rescued the league from brand-busting monotony

    Barney Ronay

  • Emma Hayes ‘hasn’t got another drop to give’ after Chelsea WSL title triumph

  • Max Verstappen battles back to claim Emilia-Romagna F1 GP pole

  • Iga Swiatek maintains hold over Aryna Sabalenka to win Italian Open

  • WSL roundup: Vivianne Miedema says goodbye to Arsenal with goal

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Reviews

  • Omar Sy, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ebru Ceylan, Nadine Labaki, Lily Gladstone, Greta Gerwig, Juan Antonio Bayona, Eva Green and Pierfrancesco Favino taking a photograph on a boat.

    Cannes 2024 week one roundup – the jury’s out, the sun isn’t…

  • emma barnett at the microphone in the today studioBBC handout photo of Emma Barnett during her first show presenting BBC Radio 4 Today with Amol Rajan. The journalist and broadcaster left Woman's Hour in April to join the morning news show. Issue date: Wednesday May 15, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story MEDIA Barnett. Photo credit should read: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.

    The week in audio: The Archers; Today; Death of an Artist; Gareth Gwynn Hasn’t Fin – review

  • a young woman stands in an industrial bin at night

    Hoard review – uncomfortable drama with a magnetic lead performance

  • Riot Symphony by Conor Mitchell at Ulster Hall.

    The week in classical: Riot Symphony; L’Olimpiade; LSO/Tilson Thomas review – humanity and hope

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New Review

  • Illustration by Observer Design of a woman and the Zoe nutrition app.

    ‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app

    The wellness project claims to help users make ‘smarter food choices’ based on ‘world-leading science’. But many scientists claim its fee-based services are no better than generic advice
  • Taylor Sam headshots 3 2024 9

    Sam Taylor: ‘Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read’

  • John Naughton

    What would Steve Jobs think of Apple’s culture-crushing advert?

    John Naughton
  • Claire Messud.

    On my radar: Claire Messud’s cultural highlights

  • Myles Smith standing next to a tiled roof on a sunny day

    One to watch: Myles Smith

  • Daisy Lafarge photographed with her cat Uisce at home in Glasgow by Murdo MacLeod for the Observer New Review.

    ‘Despite appearances, I finally realise I am not able-bodied’: novelist Daisy Lafarge on her hypermobility disorder

  • With its new iPad Pro ad, Apple is offering us the thin end of the wedge

    Alex Clark

  • ‘I want to be where the energy’s at’: photographer Ryan McGinley on youth culture, creativity and being collected by Elton John

  • Paul Lynch: ‘When you win the Booker, you are told you won’t write for a year’

  • Jon Ronson: ‘A society that stops caring about facts is a society where anything can happen’

  • ‘I don’t want to cancel him’: Rose Boyt on confronting the gaze of her father, Lucian Freud

  • The big picture: Huck Finn in 1970s New Jersey

  • Deborah Levy: ‘Writing and swimming help each other’

  • Human rights lawyer Susie Alegre: ‘If AI is so complex it can’t be explained, there are areas where it shouldn’t be used’

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Magazine

  • Fashion designer Barbara Hulanicki wears large sunglasses and a leopard print jacket over a black outfit

    ‘Bottle grief – you don’t want to be a bore’: Barbara Hulanicki

    The fashion designer and Biba founder, 87, on the best business advice she’s been given, why she wears black and the reason she never cries
  • A group of female models wearing different styles of denim jeans

    20 ways to get good jeans: denim fashion special

  • Julia Cameron, the author of "The Artist's Way," at home in Santa Fe.

    ‘My own inner critic is a bully’: Julia Cameron on creative demons and updating The Artist’s Way

  • Financial psychotherapist Vicky Reynal in her consulting room in London.

    ‘Money pervades everything’: the psychotherapist delving into our deep anxiety about finances

  • TRIVELLI BROADBEAN PESTO

    Tempting springtime party food to prepare in advance

  • Rocky Taylor - stuntman

    Risk and reward: life as a stunt double

  • Notes on chocolate: pistachio bars on a family holiday in Italy

  • ‘I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall’: artist Miranda July on writing the book that could change your life

  • Sun, sea and delicious food: 10 wonderful agriturismos in Italy

  • Sunday with Micah Richards: ‘Body lotion is imperative for the modern-day man’

  • Welcome May, the month to get growing

  • Return to Radwinter, from the Domesday Book to 1985

  • Three corkers from Majestic’s own-label range

  • Upstairs at the Grill, Chester: ‘It has an awful lot going for it’ – restaurant review

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Observer Food Monthly

  • Rachel Cooke

    Why is social media getting all churned up about cottage cheese?

    Rachel Cooke
    After being promoted by US bloggers and Instagram, cottage cheese sales are now up 40% in the UK. Its blandness is befitting of the times
  • Nish Kumar Life on a Plate Grooming: Juliana Sergot using Bobbi Brown and Tigi

    Nish Kumar: ‘Nando’s is the only thing uniting this increasingly fragmented nation’

  • Ravneet Gill

    Crisp taste test: ‘What’s this flavour? Oh my God, so weird’

  • Jay Rayner

    Have you tried eating in a city centre hotel room recently? My advice – don’t

    Jay Rayner
  • Baked tomatoes with chickpeas and curry leaves.

    Salmon pie, pork in cider, fig tart – Nigel Slater’s one-pot dinners

  • George Jones (left) and Nick Kelleher at IJ Mellis Cheesemonger, Morningside, Edinburgh.

    Right up your street: favourite local shops in the UK, chosen by chefs and food writers

  • Sticky aubergine tart, sea bass with pistachio pesto, baklava cheesecake – Greekish recipes by Georgina Hayden

  • Welcome to April’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Gill Meller’s secret ingredient: smoked paprika

  • Simon Reeve: ‘At a Russian school the headmaster greeted us with a bottle of vodka. It wasn’t yet 9am’

  • I eagerly await the English asparagus season, from tender start to woody finish

    Rachel Cooke

  • Esme Young: ‘I got Mini Cheddars in the green room when I started on Sewing Bee. Still do’

  • ‘We’re trying to make it more inclusive’: the rise of Britain’s new wine bars

  • Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie

    Jay Rayner
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