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  • Chris Riddell illustration of a sleeping Keir Starmer, clutching a vase labelled 'spending plans', being visited by a death figure, who is saying: "Wake up, Keir, I've come for the Ming vase.'

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer’s endangered Ming vase – cartoon

    The prime minister’s beauty sleep is interrupted by an unwelcome visitor with designs on the government’s spending plans
  • Simon Tisdall

    In an unheroic age, Putin, Trump and Netanyahu are sick parodies of great men

    Simon Tisdall
    These successors to Stalin, Hitler and Mao are the ones making history in an unhappy, warring world
  • Tim Adams

    Notebook
    All of London’s seedy poetry is there to see in the setting for TV thriller Slow Horses

    Tim Adams
    In real life, the address that is the spies’ fictional home reflects the author’s original grimy, multilayered vision of the city
  • Simon Tisdall

    Myanmar: three years on from the coup
    China’s deadly divide-and-rule tactics in Myanmar risk shock waves across region

    Simon Tisdall
  • Composite graphic showing all six candidates striding purposefully.

    Tory rivals are playing nice so far but like a family Christmas old scores are bound to surface

    Isabel Hardman
  • Barbara Ellen

    Setting limits for your child’s teenage kicks doesn’t make you a terrible killjoy

    Barbara Ellen
  • Sonia Sodha

    Punish the men who pay for sex, rather than the women lured into that life

    Sonia Sodha
  • Britain could be a sci-tech superpower – if the Treasury stopped holding it back

    Will Hutton
  • The Observer view on the attainment gap in England’s GCSE results

  • AI and the US election
    The Observer view on US presidential election: Kamala Harris has set out her global vision. But can it work?

  • Observer letters
    A-levels: Inequality extends into the exam room

  • Observer corrections and clarifications
    For the record

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    Economists like competition but not when it comes to their own field of research

    Torsten Bell
  • Martha Gill

    Riots, shootings, sadism… blame it on the boredom of social media

    Martha Gill
  • Kamala Harris addressing US voters, saying "Freedom and dignity or the ramblings of the weird old pussy grabber? Tough choice" as Donald Trump's hand looms off stage

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Kamala Harris reveals the choices facing US voters in the presidential election – cartoon

  • How to lose weight and influence no one – the Robert Jenrick diet for party leadership

    Catherine Bennett
  • Notebook
    I lost my veggie virtue to a bacon sarnie: one of my rasher choices, it turns out

    Bidisha Mamata
  • Carole Cadwalladr

    Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America

    Carole Cadwalladr
    The presidential election is three months away. What if the billionaire contests the result? What if he decides democracy is overrated?
  • Liz Kendall, smiling, with sunglasses on her head.

    Labour is fast discovering that Britain needs more than a Band-Aid to restore it to health

    Isabel Hardman
    The country faces grave and deep-seated problems that only bold – and expensive – policies can address
  • Barbara Ellen

    Behold the new sexy Pirelli calendar, a perfect example of Post#MeToo creep

    Barbara Ellen
    Tasteful nudity is back in business – it’s as if the last seven years had never happened
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