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Erica Wagner
Erica Wagner: At Hanukah, we must keep calling in the light
Tue 16 Dec 2025
Avraham Burg
This is not simply a Jewish tragedy, this 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
The Observer leader
Putin is laughing at Europe
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Tom Baldwin
Starmer needs to stop sweating the small stuff and be bold on Europe
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Phillippe Sands
Do we dare read Sally Rooney… or is that, too, an act of terror?
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Simon Finkelstein
Don’t blame the OBR for the failures of politicians
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Martha Gill
Champagne! Private members’ clubs celebrate fresh success
Wed 3 Dec 2025
Melanie Reid
No more BMWs for the disabled. We don’t get to be middle class
Wed 3 Dec 2025
Prof Hashim Ahmed
Screening for prostate cancer would do more harm than good
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Hermione Lee
Tom Stoppard was a conscience to us all
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Jonathan Wittenberg
We need more faith in our power to confront the climate crisis
Sun 30 Nov 2025
The Observer leader
The Observer view on the budget: Trust and the Treasury
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Steve Bloomfield
Modi holds Putin close, but he will make up with Trump
Sun 30 Nov 2025
David Hare
‘Tom Stoppard redefined Britishness as something freedom-loving’
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Erica Wagner
We may see the world we have lived in through the bright lens of Stoppard’s gaze
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Richard Eyre
‘Knowledge and art weren’t negotiable commodities for him’
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Sam Freedman
Labour’s holiday homework: solve the problem of special needs education
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Rowan Pelling
RFK Jr’s sex poetry may raise a smile but no one’s libido
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Xavier Greenwood
The hidden dangers of X marking the spot
Fri 28 Nov 2025
James Harding
Introducing the new Observer digital subscription
Thu 27 Nov 2025
David Barnett
‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news’
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Martha Gill
Maternity care is in decline, despite lower birth rates
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Kate Maltby
Films still sell myths about sex work
Tue 25 Nov 2025
Rutger Bregman
Big tech has our attention and now it wants our affection. We must resist
Sun 23 Nov 2025
The Observer leader
The Covid inquiry has unmasked the failings of Johnson’s government
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Martha Gill
The Freemasons are on a PR drive. It’s a sign of panic
Wed 19 Nov 2025
David Miliband
We must fight for democracy in a dangerous world
Sun 16 Nov 2025
The Observer leader
Free the BBC
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Mark Damazer
BBC bias is in the eye of the beholder
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Lily Isaacs
Reproductive rights are legal fact not feminist fiction, whatever Prescott memo says
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Sir Richard Lambert
Raising costs for overseas students won’t help cash-strapped universities
Thu 13 Nov 2025
David Aaronovitch
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test
Wed 12 Nov 2025
