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  • Hospital staff on a ward wearing personal protective equipment

    Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout

    Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were among the areas where Britain performed poorly despite spending more than other countries
  • Roman Dobrokhotov

    Revealed: second Kremlin spy ring targeting Russian dissidents discovered in UK

  • Idit Arad

    Abuse by Guildhall tutor in 1980s left me in despair, says opera singer

  • Bridget Cotter outside a block of flats

    UK housing associations accused of mis-selling ‘affordable’ homes as service charges soar by up to 400%

    Buyers say they were misled over likely rise in costs after they moved in, which are now ‘ruining people’s lives’
  • A close-up of a blue eye

    High street opticians could use AI to spot dementia risk with eye scan

    New technique means the eye can be studied for markers of brain health and signs of neurodegeneration
  • Mastercard and Visa linked to illegal gambling sites accused of scamming UK customers

  • ‘They brought it on themselves’: a new low in US-Ukraine relations

  • ‘The sewage scandal ends now’: UK water company fines to be used to clean up rivers

  • After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a new alliance

  • From Trump whisperer to trouble – angry Reform UK MPs turn on Farage

  • Unions on alert as Labour prepares to unveil ‘Trumpian’ plan for civil service

  • Keir Starmer’s poll ratings leap after Trump withdraws support for Ukraine

  • ‘Burn him alive on the street’: the Russian journalist targeted in UK by spy ring

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  • The coffins of 34 Belgian resistance fighters executed by the German army

    ‘You are free again’: farewell letters of executed Belgian resistance fighters found, 80 years on

    Last words shed new light on the lives and deaths of the ‘ordinary people’ who stood up to Nazi regime
  • Sepideh Gholian

    Crumble, cookies and madeleines – recipes of hope for Iran’s jailed women

  • Masoud Pezeshkian and Abdolnasser Hemmati in the Iranian parliament.

    Iran is riven with conflict. Donald Trump’s offer of talks won’t ease it

  • Students marching in Athens on Friday with placards stating 'I Have No Oxygen' as MPs debated a vote of confidence over the Tempe rail disaster.

    Grief and anger over rail disaster brings protests back to Greece’s streets

  • Palestinians sit at a large table surrounded by the rubble of destroyed buildings as they gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on 1 March.

    Dread haunts Gaza as airstrikes dent hopes of renewed ceasefire

  • The village of Ilulissat, with a population of about 4,000, sits among glaciers and snow-covered hills  in Ilulissat, Greenland.

    ‘It’s very unpredictable’: divided Greenland prepares to vote amid Trump-inspired existential crisis

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  • Face mask, decorated with UK flag, lying flat with elastic bands sticking out

    ‘The pandemic reinforced existing inequalities – it was a magnifying glass’: how Covid changed Britain

    More government borrowing, more abandoned pets, more sourdough baking. Our panel looks at the ramifications of the pandemic on education, health, arts and life in the UK
  • BRITAIN-HEALTH-VIRUS-HOSPITAL-PPE<br>Clinical staff wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as they care for patients at the Intensive Care unit at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, on May 5, 2020. - NHS staff wear an enhanced level of PPE in higher risk areas such as critical care to minimise the spread of infection between staff and patients. Britain's death toll from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has topped 32,000, according to an updated official count released Tuesday, pushing the country past Italy to become the second-most impacted after the United States. (Photo by Neil HALL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by NEIL HALL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population’

  • A mother consoles her son

    I adore my children. I’m also scared that one day my son will kill me

  • An Aids patient holds life-saving anti-retroviral medication in Zambia, southern Africa.

    ‘This will cost lives’: cuts to UK aid budget condemned as ‘betrayal’ by international development groups

  • Isabella Rossellini, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Demi Moore, Kathy Bates, and Nicole Kidman.

    And the winner is ... the rising generation of older female actors

  • Police security and control operation in Nice<br>A police officer stands in front of a wall with inscriptions about drug prices during a police security and control operation at Les Moulins housing complex in Nice, France, January 12, 2023. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

    ‘It’s packed with dealers. Look around you’: life amid the cocaine cartels of the French Riviera

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  • Catherine Bennett

    Still uncertain about Trump? Let Boris Johnson guide you on this ‘very compassionate man’

    Catherine Bennett
  • Kenan Malik

    Ignore the row: Oscar-winning No Other Land offers a vision of a shared Palestine forged in solidarity

    Kenan Malik
  • Liz Kendall in London in November 2024.

    More benefit cuts would risk turning drops of dissent in Labour’s ranks into a flood

    Isabel Hardman
    The government’s forthcoming green paper on welfare reform is likely to upset even the most loyal backbenchers
  • Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?

    Sonia Sodha
  • The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now

    Will Hutton
  • The Sussexes have to earn their bread somehow, so let them make cake

    Martha Gill
  • And the Academy award for most bashful Oscar contender goes to…

    Tim Lewis
  • Being Putin’s stooge won’t win Trump a peace prize. The Order of Lenin, though, is in the bag

    Simon Tisdall
  • Never mind the planet’s fate when the jet set feel the urge to seek out some winter sun

    Catherine Bennett
  • For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion

    Kenan Malik
  • In this dangerous age, Britain needs to exert soft power as well as the hard stuff

    Andrew Rawnsley
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Editorials & Letters

  • Jess Phillips clenches her fists as she speaks to a woman in police uniform with her back to the camera.

    The Observer view: Femicide will only end when we stop letting killers off lightly

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy is attacked by Donald Trump and JD Vance in the White House on 28 February 2025.

    The world must learn to take Donald Trump literally

    Letters
    In his reckoning, there are not so much as sovereign states, but properties with tenants that can purchased
  • For the record

    Mosul restoration project | Nicholas W Zamiska | Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
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  • A railway carriage overcrowded with young people

    Pregnant, forced to sit on a train floor – then unjustly fined for fare dodging

  • A large spooky house at night with the light from one window illuminated

    UK energy firms – another twisting psychodrama in three acts

  • Portrait of Yolanda Diaz Perez gesturing with both hands

    ‘If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins’: Spain’s deputy PM on the need for workers’ rights

  • Black and white photo of Christmas passers-by outside John Lewis and Co's department store in Oxford Street

    John Lewis partners watch the profits rack up – but still not the bonuses

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  • Stefan Nakoneczny on the slopes

    Nakoneczny’s chance to take on world as GB head for Special Olympics

  • Ewan Murray at Bay Hill

    Golf’s peace deal is no closer – is it time for PGA Tour to end talks with LIV?

    Ewan Murray at Bay Hill
  • Jockey Paul Townend celebrates aboard Galopin Des Champs after the pair claimed Gold Cup glory at Cheltenham for a second consecutive year.

    How Ireland came to dominate big-money era at Cheltenham festival

    ‘It’s their fun, it’s what makes their heart flicker’: passion for national hunt racing leaves British rivals out in the cold
  • Russia still wields huge influence inside Ceferin’s Uefa despite bans

  • Lewis Hamilton primed to forge a glorious new hammer time at Ferrari

  • Lucky loser Van de Zandschulp stuns struggling Djokovic at Indian Wells

  • Ødegaard admits he has ‘not been good enough’ for Arsenal this season

  • Munetsi rescues draw against Everton but Wolves miss Cunha’s cutting edge

  • ‘We can’t wait’: Scotland’s Townsend relishing France test after win over Wales

  • Coe targets Musk and Zuckerberg talks over ‘pond life’ abuse of female athletes

  • Galthié’s gamble with lopsided bench pays off for France as Ireland unravel

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Reviews

  • Two versions of Robert Robert Pattinson's character standing side by side

    Mickey 17 review – two Robert Pattinsons for the price of one in Bong Joon-ho’s acidly funny sci-fi satire

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The Raising of Lazarus, 1310-1311 (detail)

    Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 review – saints and sinners come alive in art’s golden moment

  • Jack White, head back, guitar in hand, in the spotlight at Troxy

    Jack White review – rock’n’roll showman makes believers of us all

  • composite of four images, clockwise from top left: Lucy Liu in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence; Anthony Perkins out the Bates motel in Psycho; ‘boxy conformity’ with Annette Bening in American Beauty; Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in The Lake House.

    Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films

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  • Hannah Mossman Moore photographed in London by Pål Hansen for the Observer New Review, March 2025.

    Stalked: how a relentless campaign of online abuse derailed one woman’s life

    A new BBC podcast recounts the ordeal endured by Hannah Mossman Moore, whose phone was bombarded by fake accounts and her personal data weaponised against her
  • Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett photographed in their north London home by Amit Lennon for the Observer New Review.

    ‘It’s been really profound’: artists Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett on laying bare their marriage on film

  • A cat onboard a saliboat, from the animated film Flow.

    Halt Disney! Flow’s director, and fellow upstart animators, on a new era for the artform

  • Illustration of 'AI agents' doing household tasks autonomously. For Obs New Review 9/3/25

    Who bought this smoked salmon? How ‘AI agents’ will change the internet (and shopping lists)

  • Nick Grimshaw by Dean Chalkley origianlly shot for the Observer Magazine

    Nick Grimshaw: ‘Getting people to talk about music is the same as talking about food. Both are full of memories’

  • The Corner Table, 1886 by Irving Ramsey Wiles.

    Best seat in the house: writer Geoff Dyer on why sitting in a corner is so satisfying

  • Welcome to Upper Lawn, the 60s Wiltshire retreat of brutalism’s first couple

  • Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope

    Stewart Lee
  • The big picture: Sebastián Bruno brings an outsider’s eye to a wedding in Cardiff

  • Xiaolu Guo: ‘Write less, in order to write stronger’

  • The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland?

  • Skype got shouted down by Teams and Zoom. But it revolutionised human connection

    John Naughton
  • On my radar: Bobby Baker’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Divorce

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    ‘Everything is so fragile’: Cate Blanchett on marriage, #MeToo and the state of the world

    Over turmeric tea one evening, double Oscar winner Cate Blanchett talks about the secret of relationships and how to survive the current news cycle. The answer? Jump into the ice…
  • Lady in a blue coat walking though the ferns and pine trees at Delamere Forest<br>F9BFH4 Lady in a blue coat walking though the ferns and pine trees at Delamere Forest

    I keep fantasising about living in total solitude in a forest

  • The Greenhouse in Norway.

    Outside in: the extraordinary home inside a giant greenhouse in Norway

  • Nicola Rayner doing the tango, shot for OM

    How relearning the tango taught me the steps to recover from trauma

  • Romanian guru Gregorian Bivolaru is escorted to a vehicle, after a hearing at the Romanian Police headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. French authorities arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organization Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 on suspicion of indoctrinating female followers for sexual exploitation. The Romanian guru at the heart of the Atman Yoga Federation was detained during a massive morning police operation across the Paris region. (AP Photo/Marian Ilie)

    The disturbing case of a Tantric yoga guru and his followers

  • JOE TREVELLI COD LEEKS

    Joe Trivelli’s recipes for cod and leeks, roasted Jerusalem artichokes and a pear and honey dessert

  • ‘It’s a place of healing’: the man on a mission to restore Britain’s ancient rainforest

  • Everything is a blank canvas to a toddler with a thick felt tip

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Notes on chocolate: the Easter choc-a-thon is on its way

  • Art, Leigh Bowery and the weaponisation of embarrassment

    Eva Wiseman
  • Sunday with Nigel Havers: ‘We’ll take the dog for a walk, she’s a rare poodle-poodle’

  • Garden scents: 10 of the best

  • How tasting notes play conjuring tricks with our expectations

  • Wales on a plate: 10 of the best restaurants, hotels, pubs and food hubs

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  • Chef Paris Rosina with a selection of her dishes.

    Thirty things we love in the world of food, 2025

    From a taste of Brazil in Manchester to the rise of the choc ice
  • Squash, apple and black pudding in the hole

    Black pudding in the hole and buttery chicken curry – Gill Meller’s recipes for next level traybakes

  • Caroline Lucas

    Caroline Lucas: ‘I can’t imagine my parents ever voted Green, but they became less antagonistic’

  • Roast chicken with thyme and bread sauce

    A simple roast, spicy squash in a bun, a five-ingredient pasta – Nigel Slater’s recipes for the end of winter

  • Miga - family restaurant. 
Eun Ah Ko (Daughter)
Hyun Sang Ko (Dad)
Jae Hun Ko
Kyung Suk Lee (mum)
Jae Kyum Ko (long hair!)

    Welcome to February’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Dried porcini mushrooms

    Jeremy Chan’s secret ingredient: dried porcini

  • My boiler has broken and I’m finding solace in a slice (or several) of toast

    Rachel Cooke
  • Ludovico Einaudi: ‘The way you blend the elements you eat is similar to composing a piece of music’

  • This is my final OFM column. Here’s what I’ve learned about buffets, ‘clean eating’ and what not to serve food on

    Jay Rayner
  • Broccoli and cashews, aubergine with chickpeas, celeriac and sausage – Nigel Slater’s winter salad recipes

  • Ultimate custard, perfectly timed pasta, espresso-fuelled stews: 37 brilliant recipe hacks

  • Welcome to January’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Salt ’n’ pepper chips, hash brown bhaji, hot honey and bacon mash – Poppy O’Toole’s potato recipes

  • Alex Kapranos: ‘It took me a few years to realise that I didn’t have to drink everything on the rider’

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