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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
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
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
