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No 10
Starmer on the brink
The prime minister now accepts that his time has run out. Allies tell Rachel Sylvester he plans to set out his plan for an orderly exit
The Observer Walk
Leaving a legacy
On a buggy ride around vast Northampton estate, Michael Heseltine talks of his love for his vast arboretum and mixed feelings about his 60-year political career
World Cup 2026
Hope springs eternal
Despite Scotland’s recent loss, Melanie Reid writes that the team could still make history by getting past the group stage – they just need to battle Brazil first
For today
Film
Xavier Greenwood
Toy Story 5 doesn’t commit to its premise about the harms of tech
Iran war
David Aaronovitch
Echoes of Chamberlain: Trump’s Iran peace agreement is ‘the Emperor’s new deal’
What’s on my mind
Gurnaik Johal
Gurnaik Johal: ‘I’m addicted to chess, but it’s making me dumber’
Film
Barbara Ellen
Andrew Stanton: the Pixar director taking toxic tech to Toy Story
Editor’s picks
Joshi Herrmann
A Macunian golden age? Burnham will hand his successor a city on the rise
Craig McLean
Tricky and me: ‘All I remember is knocking you out’
Arielle Domb
Eternal boyhood: why a generation of young men is moving back home
Sadiq Khan
‘Brexit has cost Britain billions. It’s imperative we rejoin the EU’
Ideas
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Class
Kenan Malik
‘Telling it like it is’: far-right parties give a voice to those left behind by the left
Politics
Andrew Rawnsley
Remember Gordon! Why Labour should take a beat before parachuting in Andy Burnham
Violence against women
Kate Maltby
A new fight to end marital rape is following on from the Pelicot case
Animal kingdom
Simon Barnes
Banded archerfish: ‘I shot him down with a flying globe of water’
Brexit
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Isabel Coles
Majority of British voters open to closer EU integration, new poll shows
Mark Leonard
Revived Brexit tussle is not simply between leavers and remainers
James Tapper
The Brexiteers: where are they now?
Enrico Letta
When Britain left Europe, the dream of a world-leading single market went with it
Lifestyle
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Food
Fleur Britten
Roasted roadkill and other delights: meet the UK’s godmother of extreme foraging
Architecture
Simon Parkin
‘Buildings should make room for the peculiarities of their owners’: the uplifting architecture of Mat Barnes
Fashion
Helen Seamons
Simone Rocha’s spring 2027 menswear show
Recipe
Nigel Slater
Feta, sundried tomato and kefir loaf
Culture
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Going off-grid
Courtney Maum
What to read to understand opting out
Music
Miranda Sawyer
‘If there was a cultural Olympics, the UK would be champions at festivals’
Ballet
Sarah Crompton
Paul Lightfoot and Sol León’s So We Are takes dancers to unexpected places
Film
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Effi O Blaenau, Familiar Touch, Nino, Virginia Woolf’s Day and Night and Cactus Pears
Sport
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Golf
George Simms
US Open finds itself deep in the rough during America’s summer of sport
Cricket
Andy Zaltzman
New batters, new bowlers, new captain,new wicket keeper … same old England
Rugby
Ben Coles
Exeter gave all in season that started on the beach and ended in battle
Cricket
Cameron Ponsonby
Joe Root steers sinking ship as Ben Stokes inflates the lifeboat
In Real Life
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Observations and scenes from beyond your phone screen
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Tortoise Investigates
Deep Water
In the high-stakes sport of freediving, athletes descend as deep as they can on a single breath. They are used to putting their lives at risk. Through her diving instructor, Lydia Gard discovered a new threat that could tear their community apart: drug use
Sweet Bobby
Kirat is a successful radio presenter. On Facebook she meets Bobby, a handsome cardiologist. He’s a catch. Soon, they get tangled up in a love affair full of lies and manipulation. Then… Kirat discovers a deception of almost unimaginable proportions. Alexi Mostrous investigates a very modern love story
Lucky Boy
Gareth’s whole life has been defined by a relationship he had 35 years ago when, as a 14-year-old schoolboy, he fell in love with an attractive young teacher at his school. He spent most afternoons in her bedroom. But when she walked out of his life, everything started to unravel. Chloe Hadjimatheou asks: who gets to be a perpetrator, and who gets to be a victim?
