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Kim Darroch
Europe must find a way to defend itself that does not rely on the US
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Philip Collins
Britain’s only way out of this mess is a shift to the centre
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Letters to the editor
School-ready children? Ask a health visitor
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Luke Barley
The five trees that made Britain
Wed 18 Mar 2026
The Observer Leader
The Observer view: the chancellor’s big idea
Wed 18 Mar 2026
Xavier Greenwood
The $100m pop culture collection now being broken up at auction
Mon 16 Mar 2026
David Aaronovitch
War is not a game of Call of Duty, Mr Trump
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Ed Miliband
‘Our mission is to drive for clean, homegrown energy we can control’
Sun 15 Mar 2026
The Observer Leader
Trump is a man without a plan
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Letters to the editor
Top dogs are biggest losers genetically
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Erica Wagner
If ‘war is hell’, what exactly is Pete Hegseth fighting for in Iran?
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Lily Isaacs
What do teenage boys see on TikTok?
Mon 9 Mar 2026
Letters to the editor
Assisted dying bill offers the gift of life
Sun 8 Mar 2026
The Observer Leader
Keir Starmer’s answer to Donald Trump shows principle, not pandering
Sat 7 Mar 2026
James Harding
A passport, a history, and the country that took us in
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Erica Wagner
Why a Tennessee children’s hospital was named after Dolly Parton
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Sanam Mahloudji
You can’t bomb Iran into democracy
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Gwyneth Lewis
If the Welsh language dies it’s not just Wales that will be the poorer for it
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Casey Magloire
Be it F1, small-screen scheming or life admin, it’s all a question of strategy
Sun 1 Mar 2026
The Observer view
After the Ayatollah
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Avraham Burg
I won’t remain silent on this cynical war
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Deborah Mattinson
Jersey’s move to legalise assisted dying should be a wake-up call to the Lords
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Zack Polanski
Labour ignored voters in Gorton and Denton. We listened to them. And we won
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Nazir Afzal
Fayed’s Harrods could be Britain’s Epstein Island
Fri 27 Feb 2026
James Harding
After Andrew, the royal machine’s invisible men should face a reckoning
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Erica Wagner
As blizzards hit NYC, forget the doom – try snowscrolling
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Evan Moffitt
Clavicular didn’t invent ‘looksmaxxing’ – gay men have been at it for a long time
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Seun Matiluko
The BBC wins no marks for its production at the Baftas
Mon 23 Feb 2026
Lily Isaacs
What Sarah Ferguson’s (many) books say about her
Mon 23 Feb 2026
Kenan Malik
The AI threat is far greater than job losses
Sun 22 Feb 2026
David Olusoga
No one anticipated an easy reign for Charles III but this mess will go down in history
Sun 22 Feb 2026
The Observer Leader
It’s time the royal family got on their bikes
Sun 22 Feb 2026
Amy Wallace
I knew Virginia Giuffre. I wish she was alive to see the power of her courage
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Tanya Gold
With Andrew’s fall, the royal family’s spell over the public has been broken
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Graham Smith
This sordid royal scandal could bring down the monarchy. We should seize the opportunity
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Kate Ogden
Why millions of graduates are stuck repaying more for decades
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Victoria Derbyshire
Gisèle Pelicot is the strongest woman I have ever met
Sun 15 Feb 2026
The Observer leader
Save our students
Sun 15 Feb 2026
More peers respond to The Observer’s report on the assisted dying bill
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Peter Hain
A graduate tax could fix Britain’s broken student loan system
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Gareth David
Spotify is strangling the music industry – bands like mine must make a stand
Mon 9 Feb 2026
Alex O’Connell
I didn’t think I had much in common with Kemi, but therein lies a tail
Sun 8 Feb 2026
The Observer view
Starmer’s days in office are numbered
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Kate Maltby
It’s years too late, but at least Ed Davey is learning from the Epstein horror
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Martha Gill
It’s time we paved paradise and put up a housing block
Wed 4 Feb 2026
Mary Jordan
‘I want to show the audience my life’: Melania Trump’s biographer gives her verdict on the biopic
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Aisling Flaherty
‘I saw the Melania film four times on opening day. Did anyone else?’
Mon 2 Feb 2026
The Observer view
The Lords are defying democracy
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Siri Hustvedt
In my home state of Minnesota, neighbours are standing strong against ICE
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Marie Le Conte
The Melania film? As insightful as ‘train go choo-choo’
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Xavier Greenwood
An Englishman in New York learns to avoid the yellow ice
Sat 31 Jan 2026
David Sedaris
The Crossing Guard
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Martha Gill
It’s tragic that some women can’t conceive, but surrogacy is too risky an answer
Wed 28 Jan 2026
Heidi Thomas
Measles is back. We need herd immunity, not herd instinct
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Philippe Petit
Scaling skyscrapers is a celebration of life
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Megan Nolan
Thank goodness for the Beckhams’ Freudian melodrama
Sun 25 Jan 2026
The Observer Leader
Business leaders must speak up on Donald Trump
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Matthew Bishop
Who’s the daddy? A Davos diary
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Andrew Rawnsley
Starmer dodges a bullet, but the worst may be yet to come
Wed 21 Jan 2026
Anonymous
I’m estranged from my parents – I know how Brooklyn Beckham feels
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Giles Whittell
Fake news: the Greenland emergency is an elaborate confection
Mon 19 Jan 2026
The Observer view
Iran’s theocracy could have chosen humanity, but it chose murder
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Lost in translation at the Jaipur literature festival
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Will Hutton
Reeves v the OBR: what really happened
Sat 17 Jan 2026
James Tapper
The likely impact of Maduro’s seizure on the global cocaine trade: none
Tue 13 Jan 2026
Rob Macaire
With a unifying leader, Iran’s protests could become a revolution
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Melanie Reid
A cold childhood casts a long shadow
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Philip Collins
Pensioners have been cushioned for too long. It’s time for Labour to get off the sofa on welfare
Sun 11 Jan 2026
John Kampfner
Time for Europe to find the courage to face new realities
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Jack Straw
Iran’s uprising may succeed, but there will be no uplands of democracy for a long time
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Philippe Sands
Trump’s actions are illegal – but his greed may hold him in check
Sun 11 Jan 2026
The Observer view
The real special relationship
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Mark Malloch Brown
The UN must step up as a multilateral force again, or bow to Trump’s world order
Fri 9 Jan 2026
David Barnett
‘After the first round of chemo, I was chipper … then I hated it with a vengeance’
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Gordon Corera
For spies, Venezuela signals a new world
Wed 7 Jan 2026
Giles Whittell
How many snowmen can you make from Storm Goretti?
Tue 6 Jan 2026
The Observer leader
Might is not right
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Jack Straw
‘Zack Polanski’s migration policies aren’t naive – they’re dangerously misleading’
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Paul Hayward
The death of two of Anthony Joshua’s inner circle is a body blow
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Andrei Soldatov
Russian people are numb to the deaths of their fathers and sons in Ukraine
Fri 2 Jan 2026
Martha Gill
Royal Mail’s efforts to address its logistics problem have arrived too late
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Katherine Pangonis
Brigitte Bardot was no simple heroine
Tue 30 Dec 2025
Martha Gill
Libraries are essential to help us navigate the world
Sun 28 Dec 2025
The Observer view
Britain cannot afford Reform
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Philip Collins
Starmer is a PM without a cause – he needs an epiphany
Sat 27 Dec 2025
Lucy Winkett
Hands off our Christmas, Tommy Robinson
Mon 22 Dec 2025
Michael Rosen
My Eddie, a vision on a sleigh: a story of grief for Christmas
Sun 21 Dec 2025
The Observer
The return of Erasmus brings glad tidings
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Alex O’Connell
I’m in earnest about festive fun, but Stephen Fry’s Lady Bracknell overcooked the ham
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Sarah Manavis
Dare to dream that we have reached peak tweakment
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Erica Wagner
Erica Wagner: At Hanukah, we must keep calling in the light
Tue 16 Dec 2025
Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg: Bondi shooting marks a zeitgeist of global hatred
Mon 15 Dec 2025
Jonathan Wittenberg
It happened thousands of miles away but the horror reaches home
Mon 15 Dec 2025
Jonathan Wittenberg
This Hanukah, reflect that both hope and light travel
Sun 14 Dec 2025
The Observer leader
Britain needs an Australian-style social media ban
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Erica Wagner
An endearing new production of Into The Woods brings a tear to the eye
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Jon Hill
Dear Maga, there’s no such thing as a woke font
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Martha Gill
How the great British car-sharing experiment lost its Zip
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Lily Isaacs
Sorry, Keir – when it comes to TikTok, you’re all at sixes and sevens
Wed 10 Dec 2025
