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    The Observer view: muzzled by Meta

    Wealth and power don’t give big tech companies a right to silence whistleblowers

    Mon, 6 Jul 2026

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    The Observer view: Burnham’s No 11

    The next prime minister cannot afford to botch his choice of chancellor

    Sun, 28 Jun 2026

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    Brexit was a bad idea

    Leaving the European Union was a democratic choice, but it has hurt millions of people, who now want it reversed

    Sun, 21 Jun 2026

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    The forgotten war

    The Ukraine conflict is a tipping point. Europe must seize this moment to support Zelensky

    Sun, 7 Jun 2026

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    Two-tier truth

    Extremists all over the world are peddling misinformation about race in Britain

    Sun, 7 Jun 2026

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    The Observer view: Trump’s war in Iran has made him Putin’s useful idiot

    The president’s impulsive conflict has failed to achieve its aims but has provided a strategic lifeline to Russia as oil prices soar

    Sun, 31 May 2026

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    AI is not a magical power. We need to keep our heads

    AI is duping humans into thinking that thinking doesn’t matter

    Sun, 24 May 2026

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    Welcome to Italy

    Britain has become the new exemplar of how not to run a country

    Sun, 17 May 2026

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    Nigel Farage has a problem with the truth

    There are about 5m reasons not to trust the Reform leader

    Sun, 17 May 2026

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    Starmer should stay

    The PM’s bland vision and poor management are failing to see off Reform, but a leadership contest now would only signal national instability

    Sun, 10 May 2026

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    The Observer view: £4.3bn a week

    The chancellor says that Brexit has cost 8% of UK GDP and, at last, it’s time to realign with the EU

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026

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    After the Ayatollah

    Tehran’s aggression at home and abroad has made it a target, but Trump is being dangerously reckless

    Sun, 1 Mar 2026

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    Starmer’s days in office are numbered

    The Mandelson affair could be terminal for Starmer – but it is just as troubling for his party

    Sun, 8 Feb 2026

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    The Lords are defying democracy

    The sabotage of the end of life bill by a small group of unelected individuals is unconstitutional

    Sun, 1 Feb 2026

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    Iran’s theocracy could have chosen humanity, but it chose murder

    A regime that survives only by mass killing has reached the end of the road, and the world must respond

    Sun, 18 Jan 2026

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    The real special relationship

    The UK has to choose between principle and President Trump. Keir Starmer must take a stand

    Sun, 11 Jan 2026

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    Britain cannot afford Reform

    Nigel Farage’s plans are expensive. Keir Starmer needs to say so, and have the policies to back it up

    Sun, 28 Dec 2025

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    Defining our mission on the day we launched in 1791

    Thu, 4 Dec 2025

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    A plea for dialogue as war looms in 1914

    Thu, 4 Dec 2025

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