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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
