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  • ‘Just an ex-MP’
    Rishi Sunak’s allies pour scorn on beaten Boris Johnson

    No 10 aims to move on from political dramas with prime minister seeing his predecessor as a political irrelevance

  • Education
    Schools across England face unprecedented struggle to hire English teachers as recruitment crisis grows

News

  • Owners of the most polluting cars to pay double for parking across England

  • Women ‘forced to return to violent homes’ as shortage of UK refuge places leads to crisis

    Lives are being put at risk over a lack of spaces to house domestic abuse survivors

  • ‘It could be taken down by an enthusiastic child’: Whitehall wide open to cyber-attack, warn campaigners

    TaxPayers’ Alliance says HMRC, health department and atomic energy authority all use old servers that make them vulnerable

  • Forget Wordle and Sudoku... how the Observer’s crossword has stood the test of time

  • Turf war as conservation groups clash over Harrogate’s green space

  • BBC drops Panorama inquiry into claims of sexual harassment by MPs

  • UK delis could be forced to put up prices after new Brexit tax

  • Honours row grows after claim Charlotte Owen ‘worked as maternity cover’

  • How Boris Johnson’s fall exposed bogus Brexit promises on taking back control

  • Deprived UK towns still feeling benefits of Tony Blair’s anti-poverty fund

  • ‘We just want to know if he is alive or dead’: migrants desperate for news of relatives in Greece shipwreck disaster

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World

  • ‘He was a tremendous man’: will Berlusconi’s party still get the votes without him?

    In Milano 2, the swish housing estate that launched a scandal-ridden career, residents are still grateful to the former PM. Whether they will vote for Forza Italia is a different matter

  • ‘They enjoyed this’: Ukrainian woman recounts five-month nightmare of torture and imprisonment

  • Scientists hope Euclid telescope will reveal mysteries of dark matter

  • Death from overwork: young Koreans rebel against culture of long hours

  • Sauna and a show? ‘Wellness theater’ makes its sweaty debut in Las Vegas

  • At least 41 people dead after IS-linked attack on Uganda school

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In focus

  • ‘The UK today doesn’t feel like my country’: six Britons who moved to the EU reflect on expat life post-Brexit

    The EU referendum was held seven years ago this week, transforming the lives of Britons who had made their home on the continent. But how did the vote change their view of the UK – and themselves?

  • In memory of Glenda Jackson: ‘She touched something central about what it means to be alive’

  • Biden’s inner circle: who’s who in the president’s 2024 bid for re-election?

  • Biden begins re-relection campaign – does he have what it takes to win again?

  • ‘Our hopes were so high’: the women who caught the mood of the Good Friday deal look back, 25 years on

  • ‘War criminals: whatever you do, we’ll record it’: the ‘merciless’ Ukrainian film about Mariupol

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Comment

  • Why do politicians think voters lean more to the right than they do?

    Torsten Bell
  • Kathryn Bromwich

    There is so much more for us to worry about than men masquerading as women to access single-sex spaces

    Kathryn Bromwich
  • Will Hutton

    Millions are facing soaring mortgage rates. How did we leave them so vulnerable?

    Will Hutton

  • How to infiltrate posh society: bang on about beauty and invest in some tweed

    Alex Clark

  • Female novelists don’t need their own prizes. Let’s abolish them

    Martha Gill

  • For Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi was shrewd, capable and true to his word. For others, not so much

    Catherine Bennett

  • We can revile Putin’s violence in Ukraine, but we’re not at war with Russian culture

    Kenan Malik

  • The Observer view on the Partygate inquiry verdict: Boris Johnson has left but his toxic legacy lingers

  • The Observer view on the Greek migrant boat tragedy: the west must admit responsibility

  • The emperor’s new clothes: Boris Johnson departs after being exposed – cartoon

  • Calling Bridget Phillipson ‘chippy’ is a cheap shot oozing in class contempt

    Bidisha Mamata
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Editorials & Letters

  • Understanding the scourge that is Vladimir Putin

  • For the record

    Max Farrar | De La Warr Pavilion

  • The Observer view on Boris Johnson’s resignation: the Tory party is complicit in this disaster

    His departure should prompt reflection among senior Conservatives about how and why they supported him for so long
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Business & Cash

  • Axa has gone quiet after a holiday scam brought our travel plans crashing down

  • ‘Designing a vaccine that covers all cancers is hard’: biotech pioneer Lindy Durrant

  • Fancy a top-up? Why the time is right for a £60,000 pension boost

  • Sunak, Hunt and homebuyers brace for an economic Big Wednesday

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Sport

  • ‘I’m born to suffer’: refugee athlete Dominic Lobalu on race to find a home

  • World Cup security staff suffer in the silence of Qatar’s broken promises

    Low-wage migrant workers who made the tournament possible now find themselves broke and homeless or even deported or imprisoned

  • England’s No 1: Ecclestone steps up with Ashes success in her sights

    World’s best female T20 and ODI bowler takes on a more senior role at just 24 as her Australian friends visit for a busy summer of cricket

  • Max Verstappen easily takes Canadian F1 GP pole but Lewis Hamilton happy

  • Playmaker role is perfect fit for Alexander-Arnold’s England revival

  • Ashes diary: Edgbaston turns blue for Bob Willis while Stokes mixes it up

  • ‘It’s pretty soulless’: Stuart Broad left frustrated by slow Edgbaston surface

  • A day of Total Moeen is the perfect example of England’s new approach

  • Kylian Mbappé’s extraordinary gifts are being wasted at Paris Saint-Germain

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Khawaja adds the final exclamation mark to his storied comeback

  • How Stuart Broad conjured up a ball with Marnus Labuschagne’s name on

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Reviews

  • Art
    Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition

  • The week in theatre
    Romeo and Juliet; When Winston Went to War With the Wireless; Groundhog Day – review

  • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Kurt Vile and the Violators review – solid gold stoner rock

  • Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Pretty Red Dress review – toe-tapping London tale of desire and identity

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New Review

  • ‘Don’t be frightened of chaos’
    Mark Rylance answers questions from readers and famous fans

    The revered actor, passionate activist and I Ching devotee fields queries on self-doubt, levelling up the arts, and turning loss into beauty

  • Ryan Gander
    ‘Going to a gallery is like taking your imagination to the gym’

  • ‘I feel love’
    Nicholas Blair’s images of gay joy and defiance in 80s America

  • If wanting fair, accurate political coverage means I’m a nerd, knit me a tank top

    Stewart Lee

  • Are aliens that bad at parking?
    What we need to ask about recent UFO revelations

  • Robot surgeons provide many benefits, but how autonomous should they be?

  • Beth Mead: ‘I told Saka just to curtsy when he sees me!’

  • Simone Lia: Rock – cartoon

  • The big picture: another side of old Istanbul

  • Ashleigh Nugent: ‘Black stories were always about London’

  • There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data

    John Naughton

  • Writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths: ‘There’s a strength you don’t realise you have access to’

  • On my radar: Richard Mosse’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Waterbaby

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Magazine

  • ‘I felt free to be me’
    Rose Ayling-Ellis on bringing the nation to a standstill on Strictly, and building change for disabled people

    She brought the nation to a standstill on Strictly, but for the award-winning deaf actor it was ‘only the start’. As she embraces even greater stardom, her priority will always be to build change for disabled people

  • ‘We need to talk about the end’
    Wendy Mitchell on living positively with Alzheimer’s

  • Hornet hunters
    The crack squad keeping an invasive species at bay on Jersey

  • Nigel Slater’s recipe for roast carrots, garlic and orzo

  • Time-warped: how modern life shortens our perspectives

  • Height of cool: mountain retreats in the Austrian Tirol

  • Unpicking the past: an ancient silk farm gets a smooth new look

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for fried new potatoes and rocket mayonnaise, and broad beans with radishes

  • Home alone with my son, we decide to enter the boyzone

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: Letting CBD chocs take the strain

  • Makeup with SPF makes suncare simple

  • Watching celebs in court raises drama to a whole new low

    Eva Wiseman

  • Sunday with AJ Odudu: ‘Sunday has a specific vibe and needs a specific sound’

  • Lose your bottle: wines to pack for picnics

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Observer Food Monthly

  • The 67 best places to eat this summer
    Top chefs recommend their favourite UK cafes, restaurants and inns

    From Scottish fish and chips to a perfect Devon pub, top chefs recommend their favourite cafes, restaurants and inns in the UK for lunch or dinner, or just to while away a lazy sunny afternoon

  • Lunch with... Minette Batters
    ‘We need a success story for wild spaces but also for farmers and food’

  • The return of the tasting menu
    Why no choice is a good choice

  • Broad beans with cream and dill, courgette cakes and panko prawns – Nigel Slater’s early summer recipes

  • Welcome to June’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Mackerel over coals and seaside madeleines – Emily Scott’s Cornish recipes

  • Chaya Maya’s secret ingredient: tamarind

  • Pearl Mackie: ‘I love cramming too many people around the table and feeding them’

  • From Cornish pasties to Slovenian potica, food is a language that everyone understands

    Rachel Cooke

  • My shopping bags were too heavy. Could I embrace the obvious solution?

    Jay Rayner

  • Recipe for sausage and carrot gnocchetti by Joe Trivelli

  • Recipe for warm pasta salad with orzo by Mateo Zielonka

  • Recipe for bucatini with pancetta – bucatini all’amatriciana – by Anna Del Conte

  • Recipe for gnocchi with green peas and ricotta salata by Masha Rener

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