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  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits a construction site in York last week.

    Starmer’s growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets, warn economists

    Labour leader told if elected he will have to rejoin the customs union to meet party’s manifesto pledges, while 56% of voters say Brexit was bad for economy
  • Protesters from campaign group Surfers Against Sewage

    Revealed: the ‘catastrophic scale’ of sewage spills in England and Wales

  • Roseanna McPhee, whose Gypsy Traveller family was forcibly settled near Pitlochry, Scotland, in the 1940s.

    ‘We are planned out of the area’: the Gypsy Travellers in Scotland opposing a proposed brewery and taproom

  • A Nazi parade in Vienna in about 1930, with marchers holding swastikas and giving Nazi salutes

    ‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlight

    After fleeing Hitler, brilliant Jewish economist Karl Polanyi was never welcomed by the British. Now, for the first time in 80 years, his masterwork The Great Transformation has been published in the UK
  • Jess Phillips canvassing in Birmingham Yardley

    Jess Phillips on campaign trail: ‘I’m trying to remind people we have power to change things’

    The Birmingham Yardley MP on Gaza, austerity and restoring optimism to the voting public
  • ‘It won’t take as long as people think’: Rachel Reeves on being ‘scrappy’ – and changing Britain

  • Senior Tories line up to denounce Nigel Farage’s defence of Putin’s war

  • Election diary: so, how do the Tories match up with the Three Lions?

  • NHS faces ‘ticking bomb’ with number of heart failure patients set to soar

  • Small parties’ surge offers opportunity and risk for Labour as ‘big two’ vote share poised to fall

  • ‘I made the lyrics self-deprecating’: the story behind Scotland’s Euros anthem

  • Labour watchdog will have ‘real teeth’ to prosecute rogue employers, says Angela Rayner

  • ‘Scunnered with the Tories, frustrated by the SNP’: Labour in bid to be Scotland’s biggest party

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  • Shot of Putin at the wheel and Kim in the front passenger seat of a large car, driving along, both smiling

    ‘A return to the cold war’: Putin and Kim have joined forces as global delinquents

    The defiant Russia-North Korea friendship pact raises big questions for Washington and Seoul – but also for Beijing, writes Andrew Roth
  • Israeli soldiers on a highway, with a plume of smoke rising in the distance

    Israel’s Iron Dome risks being overwhelmed in all-out war with Hezbollah, says US

  • Tourists in the town of Riomaggiore.

    ‘We’re not anti-tourist’: Italy’s picturesque villages struggle to cope with deluge of Insta-visitors

  • Supporters rally as a placard reads ‘Popular Front’ during a meeting of the electoral coalition of left-wing parties, the ‘Nouveau Front Populaire’, on 22 June.

    ‘Mother of all battles’: French left join forces to beat far-right electoral threat

  • A truck carries humanitarian aid across Trident Pier to deliver to residents of the Gaza Strip.

    ‘They miscalculated’: Gaza’s floating aid pier failing to deliver in rough seas

  • Trump in prayer at an Evangelicals for Trump meeting in Miami in January 2020.

    In Trump we trust: religious right on crusade to make their man president

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  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in Southampton last week.

    ‘It will be a very big moment’: can Labour revisit Brexit – and heal bitter divisions with Europe?

    European leaders will welcome a prime minister Starmer – and a new government will need the EU for its growth and security agenda. But it’s not going to be easy
  • General Election campaign 2024<br>Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks where they saw trains being loaded with goods from around the world and later held a Q&A with workers. The two were campaigning in the south of England for next month’s General Election on July4. Picture date: Monday June 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    A Norway deal? Rejoining? What are Labour’s options for forging closer ties with Europe?

  • Kylian Mbappe wears a face mask to protect his broken nose on 20 June.

    French football v the far right: how Mbappé and Les Bleus stood up to extremism

  • DJ Bobby Friction.

    ‘We’re trying to change the festival world’: how south Asian music is transforming Glastonbury

  • Pembroke Castle

    Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

  • Film still: La Chimera (2023) Directed by Alice Rohrwacher

    ‘We’re excited’: arthouse hits draw young UK filmgoers to a summer of subtitles

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  • Martha Gill

    Woke capitalism is not to be sneered at. Gen Z is a mighty force for change

    Martha Gill
  • Sonia Sodha

    The falling birthrate threatens a disaster so costly no politician dares think about it

    Sonia Sodha
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Sleazy, inept and unbelievable – this sorry Sunak campaign sums up the Tory years

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Improving people’s lives should be Labour’s first priority. Not that Ming vase

    Kenan Malik
  • An amnesty for Covid lockdown breakers? Robert Buckland plays the rest of us for fools

    Catherine Bennett
  • Paul Mescal can pull off short-shorts, but can ordinary men?

    Barbara Ellen
  • The sitcom isn’t endangered. We can all find something to laugh at – even Mrs Brown’s Boys

    Michael Hogan
  • Chris Riddell on the imminent demise of the Tory party and its election betting scandal – cartoon

  • The Middle East is drifting leaderless to catastrophe. War is just an airstrike away

    Simon Tisdall
  • Liberté, égalité, Mbappé! Footballer fights France’s extremists

    Agnès Poirier
  • #MeToo men want to be forgiven, but what of the careers of their casualties?

    Martha Gill
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Editorials & Letters

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attend the official welcome ceremony in the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

    The Observer view on Vladimir Putin’s reckless visit to Asia

  • Margaret Thatcher commemorative mugs.

    Time for the Tories to face up to the damage they have done

    The Conservative party has slavishly – and ruinously – followed Margaret Thatcher’s mantra of putting the market before everything
  • For the record

    Dr Ittai Gradel | Co Donegal, Ireland;Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex | Earth to Mars | Vanilla shortbread recipe
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  • Shani Gonzales in a dsenim jacket smiles for a portrait sitting on a sofa

    ‘Songwriters deserve a bigger piece of the pie’: the music publishing boss on the threat of AI

  • A row of houses sitting in the middle of floodwater, with their gardens underwater, seen from an aerial view

    Why has the cost of home insurance suddenly gone through the roof?

  • Peter and Helleentje stand with Billy, a large white lurcher, lying between them, in a low greenhouse full of funnel shaped carnivorous pitcher plants

    ‘It was a nightmare. It still is’: the cost of doing business, eight years after Brexit

  • William Keegan

    This timid ‘Ming vase’ strategy won’t turn Labour into a dynasty

    William Keegan
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  • Ukraine's champion high-jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, with yellow and blue eyeliner in support of her country

    Yaroslava Mahuchikh’s Olympic dream: ‘We want to show the world the war is not finished’

  • N’Golo Kanté (right) is stretched by Tijjani Reijnders during France’s 0-0 draw with the Netherlands in Leipzig

    Irrepressible Kanté bringing out the best in all those around him for France

    As Didier Deschamps knew, and the rest of Euro 2024 is discovering, the midfielder’s move to the Saudi Pro League has not diminished his powers
  • Luciano Spalletti urges on his Italy team

    Spalletti keeps courage of convictions with Italy for Croatia challenge

    Defending champions were obliterated by Spain but the head coach will not be deterred from his vision for possession-focused game
  • Tensions between Balkan rivals spill into Euro 2024 – and beyond

  • Thriving Saudi Pro League stars show wider fault lines around Euro 2024

  • ‘We obviously did something right’: club that gave Kobbie Mainoo his start

  • Glasgow Warriors fight back against Bulls to clinch United Rugby Championship title

  • Nerveless Wharton could be the answer to England’s midfield conundrum

    David Hytner in Blankenhain
  • Pickford and Bowen launch defence of England and Southgate

  • De Bruyne and Tielemans sink Romania to get Belgium back on track

  • Blaze bring the heat to avenge defeats for historic Charlotte Edwards Cup win

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Reviews

  • A black and white image of a child behind razor wire looking up at armed border guard.

    Green Border review – an angry and urgent masterpiece about Europe’s migrant crisis

  • Doja Cat, in a yellow body suit and leggings, crouching next to a mic stand wrapped in blond hair extensions

    Doja Cat review – hair-raising US rapper puts on a fiery display

  • Installation view of Tavares Strachan There Is Light Somewhere. Intergalactic Palace, 2024, and Ruin of a Giant (King Tubby), 2024. Photo Mark Blower.

    Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere; Megan Rooney: Echoes and Hours – review

  • A closeup of Matt Smith and Emma D’Arcy with their heads side by close

    The week in TV: House of the Dragon; Euro 2024; The Stormtrooper Scandal; Under the Bridge – review

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  • Leave campaigner, Westminster Bridge, London. 15 June 2016 – one week before the UK voted for Brexit

    ‘We’ve become unhappier’: 12 leading photographers on the images that sum up the Tories’ time in power

    Martin Parr, Nick Waplington, Liz Johnson Artur and more share photographs that encapsulate 14 years of Tory rule - from Grenfell to swimming in sewage
  • Lara Williams's face, split down the middle and offset, with one eye closed and one open

    ‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomnia

  • Erica Tremblay in New York City.

    ‘We’re really funny people’: Native American director Erica Tremblay on Lily Gladstone, laughter for survival and breaking Hollywood

  • David Mitchell

    Integrity is a rare gift, so why do we expect our politicians to possess it?

    David Mitchell
  • Rory Stewart photographed at home, Sep 2023

    Ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart: ‘I guess my hand will float over Labour, but will probably come down on Lib Dems or the Greens’

  • A psychedelic illustration of mouths and eyes and lines

    Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

  • The big picture: a nudist paradise in 1930s France by Pierre Audebert

  • Jeremy Cooper: ‘My agent strongly advised me against writing fiction’

  • Could big tech eventually face its USSR moment and collapse completely?

    Alex Hern
  • On my radar: Mark O’Connell’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Victor Ray

  • Streaming: Godzilla, Kong and the best monster movies

  • Self-care: why looking after No 1 isn’t always best for your wellbeing

  • Architect David Chipperfield: ‘We used to know what progress was. Now we’re not so sure’

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  • Hairy Biker Si King on a new Triumph Rocket III.

    ‘There is no Hairy Bikers without Dave’: Si King on TV, cooking and life without his best friend

    Together they were the Hairy Bikers, a TV phenomenon that won them fans around the world. With the sad death of Dave Myers, Si King reflects on friendship, loss and the incredible adventure the two of them shared
  • Make-up eye with long eyelashes and brown eyebrows<br>Close-up of make-up eye with long eyelashes and brown eyebrows

    All of a flutter: how eyelashes became beauty’s biggest business

  • Amelia Abraham for The Observer Magazine

    Maybe baby: could a fertility coach help you make an easier parenting decision?

  • Illustration showing good and bad mood on a woman by representing it with thunderstorm or sun above her

    Why am I so angry when I’m with my mother?

  • Sweet and soue: cherries, cheese and the tang of ginger.

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for cherry, ginger and ricotta toasts

  • Anna Katharina Schaffner HI RES 190224 Obs AS 825 F

    Feeling exhausted? Here’s how to fight the weariness

  • 10 stunning hotels on Albania’s Riviera

  • Narrow escape: renovating a Belgian terrace

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for pork and chorizo cakes, and chilled cucumber and tomato salad

  • Working from home is all very well – unless your daughter is there too

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • The schools debate is asking all the wrong questions

    Eva Wiseman
  • Chungdam, London: ‘In good hands’ – restaurant review

  • Why monastrell is Spain’s monster hit

  • Happenstance can be a great gardening inspiration

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  • Observer Food Spread (1)

    Curry tasting in Fife, oysters on Exmoor: expert tips for foodie holidays around Britain

    If you’re planning a visit to the holiday hotspots of the West Country, Kent or the Edinburgh area – make these food and drink destinations the highlights of your trip
  • Illustration of woman holding huge bowl of food

    Aubergine caviar, post-Soviet kebab kiosks: what Ukraine’s food culture taught me 30 years ago

  • José Pizarro’s prawn pil pil tortilla. Food and prop styling: Polly Webb-Wilson

    ‘Spain is much more than patatas bravas’: José Pizarro’s summer recipes

  • Grilled halibut, basil butter

    Grilled sardines, baked hake, baked haddock: Nigel Slater’s easy fish recipes

  • The Pig near Canterbury in Kent

    Welcome to June’s Observer Food Monthly

  • vegan nutritional yeast flakes in bowl

    Richard Bainbridge’s secret ingredient: nutritional yeast

  • Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

  • Comedian Allan Mustafa: ‘I love banh mi. I geek out on being able to eat history’

  • Wake up and smell the yorkshires – Sunday lunch is back!

    Rachel Cooke
  • Farming is risky and vital – it needs to be on the next UK government’s priority list

    Jay Rayner
  • Pancetta tarts, vegan ginger slice, onion flatbreads – Nigel Slater’s recipes for all-day bakes

  • Welcome to May’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Lamb kofta, sea bream puttanesca, potato cakes – 20-minute recipes from Anna Haugh

  • Ruby Bhogal’s secret ingredient – ginger, in all forms

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