Ideas 26.4.26 | The Observer

No 10

If this is government, I’m a Pot Noodle

Hailed as an antidote to the Tories’ lurid psychodrama, the prime minister now faces despair over his own leadership

By Andrew Rawnsley

Opinion

Education

Sam Freedman

Why saving universities is far more than academic

Modern Britain needs young people with degrees – here’s how to make sure they still have somewhere to study them

Jobs

Kate Maltby

The Devil Wears Prada plot is an impossible dream for job-hunting gen Zs still living at home

The sequel to the glossy office tale about the rewards of hard graft now feels out of reach for young adults in an age of AI and economic stagnation

Extremism

Kenan Malik

Fifty years on, David Edgar’s vision about the far right is becoming our destiny

The extreme views of neo-Nazis in the playwright’s 1976 drama Destiny have since moved into the mainstream

Political fallout

Philippe Sands

I saw Chernobyl bind us together. Breaking those ties is dangerous folly

Forty years ago the nuclear accident changed the way we interacted as a planet, leading to new alliances and new protections for nature. American unilateralism is a disaster of another order

The Observer view

The Observer view: Keir Starmer must find the courage to rejoin the EU

AI cannot be allowed to trample on our mental health

The court of appeal is failing the justice system

The Artemis programme is for all humanity

Letters

The Southport murderer’s family needed intervention

Letters: ‘Unsafe’ convictions are not a lost cause

Everyday stories of confusion over AI

Sick workers need occupational health, not doctor’s notes

Kenan Malik

Kenan Malik is an Observer columnist

How do we transform society when we are more disconnected than ever?

Why so many missed the point of the Economist’s Khamenei obituary

A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was more dispiriting

The AI threat is far greater than job losses

Andrew Rawnsley

Andrew Rawnsley is The Observer’s chief political commentator

Starmer may have won praise for standing up to Trump, but fury over high prices will follow

Gorton and Denton will force Labour to rethink – it is no longer the only anti-Reform option

Don’t underestimate the Windsors’ ruthless drive to survive

Eva Wiseman

Eva Wiseman is an Observer columnist

The shocking allure of facelifts

Bidding for a wedding dress is not my lot

The driven life and tragic death of British ‘Lip King’ Jordan James Parke

Chatbots can break your heart

James Harding

A passport, a history, and the country that took us in

James Harding explains why claiming a German passport was a way to celebrate his family’s history and the culture of Britain, the place which welcomed them

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