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  • Keir Starmer

    All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns

    Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement
    • An NHS poster warning people to stay at home

      ‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn

    News

    • Stock photograph of an unidentifiable man looking at his phone

      Prosecutors told to do more to strip ‘revenge porn’ abusers of victim images

    • Rows of white gravestones interspersed with red flowers

      ‘The only thing still working’: Russia and UK agreement to tend war graves transcends bitter international relations

      Private understanding ensures tending of British military graves in Russia and Crimea, and Soviet graves in UK
    • Parker Posey, in a jumper, trousers, overcoat and trainers, bends backwards as she puts her right foot forward

      Grab your logo sweatshirt – Gap is making a surprise fashion comeback

      Dresses from 90s brand grace red carpet after rough patch in which brand closed stores and broke tie with Kanye West

    • Women seeking asylum in UK allege sexual abuse in mixed-sex hotels

    • ‘I’ve been getting 100 messages a day’: Church of Scientology accused of intimidating UK critics

    • British Museum is right to keep Parthenon marbles, says new trustee

    • Kemi Badenoch accused of breaking pledge to Tory MPs of net zero by 2050

    • Atrocities mount daily. Promised aid does not arrive. Why has the west turned its back on Sudan?

    • A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters

    • ‘Wake-up call’: ministers launch urgent investigation into Heathrow shutdown

    • Ban on unregulated experts in family courts proposed for England and Wales

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    World

    • Shashamene, Ethiopia Ras Paul with his vinyl collection at his home in Shashamene (2)

      ‘Many Rastas were chased away, but we’re determined to remain’: Ethiopia’s religious community under threat

      Rastafarians who sought a spiritual homeland in Shashamene face eviction and arrest for flying flag of Haile Selassie’s empire
    • A protester dressed in a Turkish flag confronts riot police on Friday near Istanbul city hall after the arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu.

      Turkey’s protests over Istanbul mayor grow into ‘fight about democracy’

    • Gaza residents survey the devastation after an Israeli attack on Bait Lahia yesterday.

      Gaza’s ceasefire brought hope, but it was the calm before a brutal storm

    • A badly damaged library with a pile of books on the floor

      Ukraine’s clandestine book club defies Russia’s push to rewrite history

    • Pope Francis prays at a hospital chapel

      Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital and convalesce at Vatican

    • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Norway<br>epa11976440 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store (not pictured) attend a press conference in Oslo, Norway, 20 March 2025. EPA/OLE BERG-RUSTEN NORWAY OUT

      The limited ceasefire in Ukraine: what has been agreed and how will it work?

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    In focus

    • Tate Modern and the Millennium Bridge, London, England

      Tate Modern at 25: ‘It utterly changed the face of London’

      It has hosted a huge spider and a pickled shark – and despite financial pressures, there can be little doubt about the gallery’s seismic impact
    • A row of alternating US and EU flags next to each other on flagpoles

      After America: can Europe learn to go it alone without the US?

    • Boris Johnson's head appears to slump as he reacts while leading a virtual news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London. Sign on front of podium reads; STAY HOME, PROTECT THE NHS, SAVE LIVES

      Ten lockdown lessons to learn for next time

    • Donald McRae

      George Foreman: a charmer who left his mark in the dirt and dust of the fight game

      Donald McRae
    • Vanessa Thorpe

      Netflix drama Adolescence has lessons for us all about alienated young men

      Vanessa Thorpe
    • A group of mostly men, in Maga baseball caps, with a shirtless man in a horned hat and a megaphone stand on ornate floor tiles, in front of a chandelier, in the US Capitol with a US flag and a big flag reading "Trump is my president"

      The ‘Iron Mountain’ hoax: how anti-Vietnam war satire sparked today’s conspiracy theories

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    Comment

    • Will Hutton

      Hard times: why Rachel Reeves must be bold and ditch her Dickensian rulebook

      Will Hutton
    • Kate Maltby

      Do we really want Clueless updated to reflect our dark, digital age? Ugh! As if!

      Kate Maltby
    • Andrew Rawnsley

      Kemi Badenoch is failing to hit the spot at PMQs – and everywhere else

      Andrew Rawnsley

    • Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?

      Kenan Malik

    • Adolescence reveals a terrifying truth: smartphones are poison for boys’ minds

      Martha Gill

    • Donald Trump’s imperial presidency is a throwback to a greedier, pernicious age

      Simon Tisdall

    • #YouToo, Gwyneth Paltrow? Intimacy coordinators make sex scenes safe for all, not just A-listers

      Barbara Ellen

    • A temple to extravagance. And that goes for Manchester United’s new stadium, too

      Rowan Moore

    • Many MPs think it immoral to slash disability benefits – and they’re right

      Sonia Sodha

    • Amid all the noise about the UK’s ‘two-tier’ justice system, there is silence on class

      Kenan Malik

    • Mind your manners, diners, restaurants are turning the tables on grumpy reviewers

      Kate Maltby
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    Editorials & Letters

    • Make and female symbols

      The Observer view on gender: failure to accurately record biological sex harms us all

    • Young woman reclining on couch, psychologist looking at her in background

      Mental health patients deserve better therapy safeguards

      Letters
      A lack of regulation is having harmful consequences

    • For the record

      Careless People review | Valère Basilica | France v Scotland
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    Business & Cash

    • People walk past a Natwest Bank branch

      Power switching: banks compete for current account customers with cash payouts

    • A young teacher gesturing as she teaches in a small modern classroom to young children

      Teachers’ Pensions used to check if I was alive. Now it seems to assume I’m dead

    • Rachel Reeves smiling, photographed outdoors

      What are Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules and could they be changed?

    • Environmental Protesters Gather Outside Shell's AGM<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: An environmental protester is removed by security after demonstrating during the Shell annual general meeting on May 21, 2024 in London, England. The protest, organised by the Climate Justice Coalition - which includes NGOs such as Fossil Free London, War on Want, and Extinction Rebellion UK - coincides with Shell's 2024 Annual General Meeting, where shareholders vote on the company's energy transition update. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

      It’s AGM time, season of free sandwiches and protest fireworks

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    Sport

    • Danilo

      ‘I was brainwashed … but in a good way’: Danilo on Guardiola, Flamengo and social media

    • Jude Bellingham

      Jude Bellingham’s simple, repeated genius can be the difference for England

      Midfielder’s talents are subtle but, quite clearly, brilliant enough to take the national team to World Cup glory
    • World Boxing president, Boris van der Vorst

      ‘It’s a privilege’: Boris van der Vorst, the man who saved Olympic boxing

      By forming a new governing body, World Boxing, the Dutchman prevented the sport being banished by the IOC

    • Wales sink Kazakhstan to get World Cup campaign up and running

    • Jordan Henderson: ‘I looked at how far it was to Berlin and I hired a van’

    • Lee Carsley returns to lay foundations for England’s World Cup tilt

    • Indian Wells champion Jack Draper dealt reality check by Jakub Mensik

    • Kirsty Coventry’s in-tray: six big issues facing IOC’s new president

    • Rashford could be more important to Tuchel’s England than Palmer or Saka

      Jonathan Wilson

    • WSL roundup: Arsenal thrash Liverpool thanks to Matthews’ damaging double

    • The only way is up for Mark Hughes’s Carlisle as US owners raise stakes

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    Reviews

    • an animated cat underwater in flow

      Flow review – beguiling, Oscar-winning animation is the cat’s whiskers

    • FKA Twigs performing on stage at Aviva Studios in Manchester

      FKA twigs review – a stunning ​surprise-filled spectacle

    • Florence Pugh, smiling eating an ice cream sundae, in We Live in Time

      Streaming: We Live in Time and the best Florence Pugh films

    • The square and colonnade of trade school Nimeto, Utrecht, redesigned by Maarten van Kesteren Architects.

      ‘A place you remember for the rest of your life’: why Dutch architects are giving new life to old schools

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    New Review

    • Observer New Review cover story composite 23/3/25

      The New Yorker at 100: ‘We live in a world of misinformation ... a lack of verification. Our readers want what we do’

      The venerable magazine is thriving and its long-time editor David Remnick tells us why a dedication to literate, conversation-provoking and veracious reportage has never been more vital
    • Kate Mossman poses for a photograph sitting in the bay window of her lounge

      Thank you Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor – how my 1990s teenage self found somebody to love

    • Joshua McGuire photographed by Amit Lennon for the Observer New Review, March 2025.

      ‘It’s nice to be morally dubious’: Cheaters star Joshua McGuire on the hit show and his new role – as a rhino

    • A swallow-type bird in silhouette pointing north-east on a pocket compass

      ‘They have no one to follow’: how migrating birds use quantum mechanics to navigate

    • Clemency Burton-Hill at her home in Washington DC, March 2025.

      Clemency Burton-Hill: ‘I can say now, after my brain injury, that music can save a life’

    • Illustration by David Foldvari of a Burger King meal with the branding written in Navajo code

      Trump chose the wrong hill to DEI on

      Stewart Lee

    • The big picture: Hicham Benohoud frames the classroom as theatre

    • Poet Jason Allen-Paisant: ‘We belong in the picture’

    • Reid Hoffman: ‘Start using AI deeply. It is a huge intelligence amplifier’

    • Did AI mania rush Apple into making a rare misstep with Siri?

      John Naughton

    • On my radar: Raja Shehadeh’s cultural highlights

    • One to watch: Sebastian Schub

    • Actor Julianne Nicholson: ‘I would have loved to have been a nepo baby but alas’

    Magazine

    • Emma Barnett Portrait for Stella

      Emma Barnett: ‘People ask, is that the radio you or the real you?’

      The broadcaster and author talks maternity leave, childhood curiosity, and her imaginary radio audience
    • Sleepy woman lying in bed using smartphone late at night, can not sleep. Insomnia, addiction concept<br>Sleepy exhausted woman lying in bed using smartphone, can not sleep. Insomnia, addiction concept. Sad girl bored in bed scrolling through social networks on mobile phone late at night in dark bedroom.

      My adult daughter wants to turn herself back into a teenager

    • The friands are best eaten the day they are made.

      Nigel Slater’s recipe for brown butter and chocolate chip friands

    • Hannah Ewens shot for OM

      After becoming obsessed with self-help, I had to heal from ‘healing’

    • Drone view of historic district in Bath, UK

      Bath, balls and Darcy’s pile: where to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary

    • Billy Monger shot for OM

      ‘I was taking on a monumental challenge’: racing driver Billy Monger on why being a double amputee hasn’t slowed him down

    • Nigel Slater’s recipes for cauliflower, ham hock and parsley, and fried rice with greens and peanuts

    • Brushing up the past: a graceful French home has art at its heart

    • Five years on, the outbreak of Covid feels both distant and too horribly close

      Séamas O’Reilly

    • Notes on chocolate: Hunt for these Easter eggs when you want a little indulgence

    • Life in the old dog yet: how biotech firms are looking to extend the lives of our pets

    • When did being too earnest become a crime, and why?

      Eva Wiseman

    • ‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother

    • Sunday with Nina Sosanya: ‘I’ll eat whatever rubbish happens to be in the fridge’

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    Observer Food Monthly

    • Fudgy chocolate cake with a cardamom milk soak

      A showstopper cake, perfect cookies and a surprisingly simple fondant – Tarunima Sinha’s chocolate recipes

      Gluten-free friands with hazelnuts and ginger, pistachio and kataifi chocolate … and no special gadgets required
    • Paul Ainsworth Easter Taste Test OFM March 2025

      ‘I could eat the lot!’: the best new Easter eggs for 2025

    • wine glasses on a pink background in the sunlight<br>GettyImages-2052991111

      In the mood for spring: feel-good wines in sync with the season

    • Georgina Hayden Spring Feast Food and prop styling: Polly Webb-Wilson Observer Food Monthy OFM March 2025

      Herby panisses, fancy cauliflower pie, passion fruit creme caramel – Georgina Hayden’s recipes for a spring feast

    • London-based knife-maker Holly Loftus in her workshop.

      No more wonky sourdough: in search of the perfect kitchen knife

    • Photography and prop styling: Kate Whitaker Food styling: Annie Rigg Easter Chocolate Bakes Tarunima Sinha

      Welcome to March’s OFM

    • Claudia Roden: ‘There hadn’t been cookbooks in Egypt – everything was just handed down’

    • Social climbers: is non-stop content creation now what it takes for restaurants to survive?

    • Breakfast fads come and go, but at heart, is Britain a nation of cereal eaters?

      Rachel Cooke

    • Dame Denise Lewis: ‘I love an apple crumble – just don’t talk to me while I enjoy myself’

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

    • Welcome to February’s Observer Food Monthly

    • Jeremy Chan’s secret ingredient: dried porcini

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

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