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  • Joe Biden and Keir Starmer facing each other across a table with other US and UK officials, including Antony Blinken and David Lammy

    Alarm in UK and US over possible Iran-Russia nuclear deal

    US president Joe Biden and British PM Keir Starmer fear secret arms link-up amid talks in Washington over Ukraine
  • Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson at a nursery.

    Nurseries in England say new rules have reduced care to ‘crowd control’

News

  • Samantha and Ben Spence, each holding a block of cheese, grin as they stand back to back between shelves of big rounds of cheese

    Artisans turn to ancient recipes for UK cheese revival

  • An aerial view of round fishing nets

    First large-scale UK onshore salmon project at risk over ‘factory farm’ claims

    Animal rights campaigners win a judicial review over pioneering £120m scheme at Grimsby port
  • Kendall Jenner holding a can of Pepsi among a crowd of people

    ‘Go woke, go broke’ not true for brands, says global advertising study

    Research shows ad campaigns that are more inclusive have a positive impact on profits, sales and brand worth

  • Key flood defences in disrepair across England as wet autumn looms, data reveals

  • Charities demand to meet UK ministers as 1.6m disabled OAPs set to lose winter fuel payments

  • Race is on to produce a super-coral to survive world’s warming seas

  • NHS cannot embrace AI until its basic IT systems are up to scratch

  • Financial leaders and party insiders warn Starmer: we need less gloom, more optimism

  • Tories ‘struggling to find speakers for fringe events’ at quiet party conference

  • Trump ‘likelier winner’ unless Harris tackles two failings, says ex-ambassador

  • Keir Starmer alleged to have broken rules over party donor’s gifts to wife

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World

  • Farmer Goyteom Tekele outside the warehouse of frankincense wholesaler Tesfaye Merasa in Abi Adi with his sacks of frankincense resin and bark

    How the west’s wellness industry is driving Ethiopia’s frankincense trees towards extinction

    As rich westerners fuel demand for the ancient fragrance, a lucrative race for the resin is killing the trees but leaving little of the trade’s profit for those gathering it
  • Lachlan, Rupert and James Murdoch

    Murdoch family fights to keep succession battle secret as Nevada hearings loom

  • Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori in 2000.

    ‘Transformative, for better and for worse’: what’s the legacy of Peru’s Alberto Fujimori

  • Demonstrators in Paris’s Place de la Republique

    ‘It’s the height of horror’: protests in 30 French cities in support of Gisèle Pélicot

  • A prison guard opens a cell door in a corridor inside Fuchū prison, Tokyo.

    Inside Japan’s biggest prison: home to yakuza… and hundreds of old men

  • A stray dog at Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul.

    Fury in Turkey as animal lovers and politicians attack ‘massacre law’ to deal with 4m stray dogs

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In focus

  • Kamala Harris speaks before a crowd.

    ‘It’s such a dramatic contrast’: Harris turns North Carolina into a toss-up

    The state, usually a Republican stronghold, is in play in a nail-bitingly tight contest for the presidency
  • Voiced by actors. Martin McGuiness and Gerry Adams in 1989.

    ‘Counterproductive and silly’: 30 years since the end of the bizarre Irish political voice ban

  • Donald Trump gestures with one hand as he makes an impassioned point during a speech

    If Starmer is on a US charm offensive, he must meet Trump as well as Harris

    Kim Darroch
  • Jeremy Corbyn, then Labour leader, on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury in June 2017.

    ‘Corbyn had flown too close to the sun’: how Labour insiders battled the left and plotted the party’s path back to power

  • Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings at the National Gallery.

    ‘They have done fantastically well’: how London’s blockbuster Vincent Van Gogh exhibition is reframing myths

  • Nicole Kidman as Greer Winbury, with her son Will, played by Sam Nivola, in new Netflix series The Perfect Couple.

    ‘She just unravels so beautifully’: how Nicole Kidman conquered the world – then kept on going

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Comment

  • Anne McElvoy

    The new owner of the Spectator didn’t cough up £100m just for the fun of it

    Anne McElvoy
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    The Lib Dems are intoxicated by election success but they’ll need to be sober about what comes next

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Yvonne Roberts

    Gisèle Pélicot is a one-woman challenge to the still too common myths about rape

    Yvonne Roberts

  • Trump’s fantasy that migrants are eating cats proves the meme has prevailed over real politics

    Kenan Malik

  • Unappealing as some life peers are, entitled lords are defending the indefensible

    Catherine Bennett

  • Kate’s ‘Eat, Pray, Picnic’ video vibe was corny but the subtext was clear: I’ve changed

    Barbara Ellen

  • The Taylor Swift effect is small but may just swing it for Kamala Harris

    Richard T Longoria

  • A smile and a sympathetic ear go a long way in politics – sadly, not far enough

    Torsten Bell

  • Chris Riddell on Vladimir Putin telling the west not to let Ukraine fire long-range missiles into Russia – cartoon

  • The Perfect Couple’s mega-rich are fair game, but why not satirise the merely wealthy?

    Martha Gill

  • Is the fizz up to Edith Wharton’s standards? The joys of launching a book

    Rachel Cooke
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Editorials & Letters

  • NHS app being used for self-isolation during Covid lockdown

    The Observer view on the NHS: If it is to ‘reform or die’, let’s start with the way it handles our data

  • Head and shoulders photograph of Rachel Reeves gazing down to her right.

    The Observer view on the UK economy: Labour is holding back when it should be bold

    Ministers should stop wasting their time – and their hefty mandate – trying to make failed Tory policies work
  • Labour MPs in the Commons

    In ending the winter fuel allowance, this is not the Labour party I voted for

    Whatever Rachel Reeves may achieve, she will always be known for this
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Business & Cash

  • Nigel Oddy, chief executive of American Golf.

    ‘We don’t want golf just to be for retired guys … it’s for everyone’: Nigel Oddy of American Golf

  • A woman looking at her phone

    Dear Airbnb: who is ‘Rachel’, and how has she taken over my booking?

  • Women studythe house price signs in an estate agent’s window, in Kentish Town, London.

    The 40-year mortgage – solution to rising property values or too high a price to pay?

  • A doorway with a Duchy of Cornwall plaque outside

    Lloyds sent my £37,000 to the Duchy of Cornwall and I can’t get it back

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Sport

  • Vivianne Miedema, Lucy Bronze, Rosa Kafaji

    Transfer window verdict: how every WSL club fared this summer

  • Ewan Murray

    Rahm case casts shadow over Ryder Cup as PGA Tour-LIV rupture still runs deep

    Ewan Murray
  • Bath’s Finn Russell offloads from a tackle by WillGriff John of Sale; Fin Smith of Northampton Saints lifts the Premiership trophy; and the Fiji outside-centre and captain Waisea Nayacalevu

    Premiership gears up for new season with battle for eyeballs never greater

    The days of clubs recruiting A-list overseas stars are long gone but the domestic game needs to target growth and widen the audience

  • Europe looking for minor miracle as USA maintain Solheim Cup advantage

  • Pedro Porro: ‘I have had to be tough mentally – it’s a winning spirit’

  • Arteta says Arsenal can ‘still be’ set-piece kings in north London derby

  • Miles Hammond hits classy fifty as Gloucestershire cruise to first Blast title

  • Wanyonyi beats Arop but Rudisha’s world record remains intact

  • Chelsea’s Nkunku sinks Bournemouth amid Premier League yellow card record

  • Scorcher scarcity is not data’s fault – players are passing more and shooting less

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Jhon Durán’s stunner gives Aston Villa thrilling comeback win against Everton

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Reviews

  • People view, (left-right) Sunflowers,1888, La Berceuse (The Lullaby), 1889 and Sunflowers, 1889 on display during the preview for the National Gallery's Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition at the National Gallery, London.

    Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers review – eye-aching, heartbreaking and unmissable

  • A female photographer holding a camera crouches behind sandbags during world war two.

    Lee review – Kate Winslet is remarkable as model turned war photographer Lee Miller

  • Two male musicians, standing next to laptops on tables and microphones on stands, in silhouette against an illuminated orange striped background.

    Jungle review – like a puzzle with a piece missing

  • Yuja Wang x Hockney at the Lightroom.

    The week in classical: Yuja Wang x Hockney; Proms 61 & 62: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rattle – review

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New Review

  • Neneh Cherry photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review, August 2024.

    ‘My whole life’s interconnected’: Neneh Cherry on the relationships that inspire her, leaving home at 15, and the joy of a trashy box set

    The celebrated musician answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Michael Stipe, Bernardine Evaristo, Questlove and Sadiq Khan
  • Scenes from the 1984 nuclear attack drama Threads

    ‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on

  • Extreme closeup of an angry man's face

    We’re living in the age of rage. I’m a psychoanalyst – here’s what we need to do to calm down

  • An illustration of two hands, one holding an ozempic applicator, the other a pregnancy test

    ‘Ozempic changed my life’: do diabetes jabs boost the chances of conception?

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a boar sculpture with a price tag around its nose and mop and bucket nearby.

    The Tories have left the stage but their toxic cultural legacy is doing an encore

    Stewart Lee
  • John Naughton

    By showing Musk’s X the red card, has Brazil scored a goal for all democracies?

    John Naughton

  • June Watson: ‘In the 1970s at the National you couldn’t rehearse after lunch because everybody had had too much to drink!’

  • The big picture: Joseph Michael Lopez’s Manhattan moment

  • Virginie Despentes: ‘I wasn’t writing Baise-Moi from a very good place’

  • Architects Caruso St John: ‘Developers are too powerful in this country. Everything is upped in terms of crudity and brashness’

  • On my radar: Mo Gilligan’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Friedberg

  • ‘After Rwanda, I felt I needed philosophical more than psychological help’: journalist Lindsey Hilsum on war and the consolation of poetry

Magazine

  • Davina McCall shot for OM

    ‘I throw everything at it’: Davina McCall on harnessing her feelgood factor

    Davina McCall has been lighting up our screens for 30 years, but lately she’s been using that same enthusiasm to tackle much more serious issues surrounding women’s health. She talks about her wild early life, dating in our 50s – and her new role as an ‘amplifier’
  • Eco Dewi Beach Cleaners pictured at Newgale beach in North Pembrokeshire.<br>From left to right: Jeremy Wadia (Director of the community interest company) and Katy Fox (Director of the community interest company), stand at the northern end of Newgale Beach in North Pembrokeshire, holding refuse bags, litter pickers, and collected beach debris and rubbish.

    Make it beautiful: seven local heroes improving communities

  • ELIZABETH_MCCAFFERTY for The Observer Magazine

    Sole traders: how foot fetishism went mainstream

  • For printing Julian Opie Time Out Tokyo : Kisa Toyoshima

    Julian Opie: ‘I’ve got a detailed plan for my death’

  • OM Nigel Peppers Artichokes Rice Web

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for brown rice, peppers and artichokes

  • Callum Robinson and his father David, seen at Beecraigs Sawmill, Beecraigs Country Park, Linlithgow, Scotland UK 14/08/2024 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. A22U4Y, sgealbadh, A22R4S

    Learning carpentry from my father helped make me the person I am

  • Dream ’scapes: Europe’s 10 best surrealist trips for art lovers

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for lemon and passion fruit choux, and lamb steaks, marsala, apricots

  • There are many advantages to having lots of cousins…

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: bars with their origins in darkest Peru

  • What’s so funny about getting an AI app to give you a roasting?

    Rhik Samadder

  • Sunday with Lindsay Duncan: ‘I lie on the sofa and read the paper’

  • Tasteful nudes – lip colours for autumn

  • I’ve graduated but I worry that only being average will blight my future

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Observer Food Monthly

  • Nigel Slater sitting at a table with plant pots on it in a garden

    Moments, memories and meal to cherish: exclusive extract from Nigel Slater’s new book

    A Thousand Feasts is a collection of stories and insights from the Observer’s food writer. Here, he reflects on simple joys that can arrive anywhere, from a beach half a world away to his own kitchen
  • Football food

    Who ate all the falafels? The changing face of football’s match-day menus

  • Rachel Cooke

    The Habitat chicken brick is back – but what’s the best way to roast a bird?

    Rachel Cooke
  • Grilled mackerel & marinated tomatoes Café Cecilia Cookbook

    Ham hock, Guinness bread, grilled mackerel: recipes from the Cafe Cecilia cookbook

  • Julie Lin's Mee Siam

    Welcome to September’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Kerabu bee hoon. Photography and prop styling: Kate Whitaker. Food Styling: Lizzie Harris

    Scissor-cut, stir-fry and ‘a hug in a bowl’: six great noodle recipes

  • Jeremy King: ‘The first time I was ever impressed by anyone was Meryl Streep’

  • Rahel Stephanie’s secret ingredient: pandan

  • Anna Jones: ‘Giving up meat and fish was the opposite of hard. You can be more creative’

  • Toasted nori on Pot Noodle, sea salt on supermarket mousse… behold, I am the king of snacks

    Jay Rayner

  • Nigel Slater’s summer tomato recipes to enrich the soul

  • A hard day’s night: life with the food workers who are up all hours

  • Welcome to August’s Observer Food Monthly

  • St John: 30 ways the ‘nose to tail’ restaurant changed the way we eat

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