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Jessica Bateman
‘My grandfather was a Wehrmacht soldier. It left him a broken man’
Mon 29 Dec 2025
Kenan Malik
We’re ‘bowling alone’ politically when we should be rallying for change
Sun 28 Dec 2025
David Barnett
In search of the ghosts of Christmas past
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Ian Thomson
The great Italian escape
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Richard Ovenden
In defence of pedantry
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Luke Turner
Lament for a lost London
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Tom Larkin
The Observer in brief: 234 years of history in 6 minutes
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Jonathan Bate
The infernal world of Christopher Marlowe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Dan Hancox
The families of Franco’s victims still seeking justice 50 years after his death
Mon 17 Nov 2025
Richard Ovenden
How to survive an information crisis
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Hannah Rose Woods
Ferdinand Mount’s sentimental revolutions
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Philippe Sands
Inside the mind of Serbia’s ‘Madam War Criminal’
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Olivia Ovenden
Why women keep secrets
Wed 29 Oct 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
The prizewinning author who almost lost his nerve
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Andrew Glazzard
The hijackers who invented modern terrorism
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Jade Cuttle
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet
Thu 23 Oct 2025
K Biswas
Who should pay the debts of slavery?
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Laurie Bristow
The hotel that tells the story of Kabul
Thu 16 Oct 2025
Giles Whittell
The new US ‘Department of War’ has a long history
Mon 6 Oct 2025
