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We didn’t click ‘consent’ on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we’d been?

In an experiment, we surfed sites without making a wager or agreeing to data sharing. Our Meta feed filled up with betting ads

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Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission

Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company Meta

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Thames Water chairman accused of conflict of interest over £37m share dividend payment

Defra officials concerned about ‘conflicted position’ of Sir Adrian Montague over dual role chairing holding company

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Save our cider: apple growers and producers call on government to protect traditional ‘native wine of England’

Nine in ten traditional orchards in England have been lost since the second world war. Farmers and cider makers are now fighting for their survival

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Trump’s Gaza power-trip tells us this: he is just another coward denying the need for a Palestinian state

Benjamin Netanyahu called it ‘groundbreaking’ thinking but it isn’t. It is idiocy that will make a bad situation worse, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in January

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

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I Want to Talk to You by Diana Evans review – a fascinating overview of a writer’s evolution

In this collection of social commentary and interviews, the novelist sheds light on the artistic process and her need to help shape the cultural landscape

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‘I lost 10 years of my life’: how UK betting giant’s unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked

Sam found himself getting sucked deeper and deeper in to betting, sometimes risking £10,000 in a day. Now a judge has ruled he was unlawfully targeted

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Settled, industrious, essential: it’s time we saw immigration as a British success story

New arrivals are set to push the population to 72.5 million but the numbers matter less than how well people fit in once here

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Mould, money and murder accusations – residents try to oust management on their London housing estate

The organisation managing the Loughborough Estate in Lambeth is beset by complaints of disrepair, damp and vermin – and has made some big claims of its own

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Only 3% of new housing approved in London is accessible, study finds

Shocking shortage of suitable homes for disabled and elderly, with less than 1% designed for wheelchair users

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Tension and defiance in Panama after Trump threatens to ‘take back’ canal

Diplomatic frenzy and rattled nerves in republic as officials and former president reject US president’s comments

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Reeves thinks big on planning and growth with housebuilding project

Chancellor to apply ‘zoning scheme’ around commuter train stations to boost fragile UK economy and encourage investment

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‘Move closer to Europe – not Trump’ voters tell Starmer in major UK poll

Pressure growing on Labour to improve trade with EU as Rachel Reeves admits Brexit damaged UK

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‘I can’t sleep, I’m terrified’: the rise in mothers having their babies taken away within days of giving birth in England

Charity finds ‘inhumane’ system is forcing women to defend themselves in court, sometimes from their hospital beds, while in fear of having their newborn child taken from them

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Rwandan army ‘ready to invade DRC’ and help rebels seize city

Intelligence sources suggest battle for Congolese regional capital Goma is imminent before UN crisis talks on Sunday

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Gig economy firms warned by UK government they may be operating illegally

Companies supplying ‘freelance’ workers contacted by minister over practices that could breach employment law

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‘How Innocent Do They Have to Be?’: Texas’ First Scheduled Execution of 2025 Raises Thorny Questions

Steven Nelson says he was a lookout for a robbery that ended in a pastor’s death. He’s set to be killed by the state February 5.

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In Austin, a Rare Prosecution over Worker Death in Trench Collapse

Travis County’s progressive DA has secured indictments for the 2021 death of Juan José Galvan Batalla, remembered as a “cheerful” hard worker and beloved sibling.

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The Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal hangs by a thread. This is what must happen for peace to last

Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas both have reasons to collapse the agreement. Honest brokers must do all they can to keep it alive, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator

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Call for ‘censorship culture’ to end as Unity Mitford’s German diary is revealed

Extracts from Mitford’s papers published but many more archives concerning British fascists remain concealed

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‘Young women can fall pregnant very easily’: inside the wild west of smartphone fertility apps

Observer analysis finds unregulated products being promoted as contraception despite concerns about their accuracy

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Marcus Rashford’s holiday scheme for kids wins reprieve from spending cuts

Concerns had been mounting over future of £200m a year scheme providing food and activities for vulnerable children

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As a writer, Neil Gaiman is a serial fantasist. That, it seems, also applies to his feminism

Allegations of sexual misconduct are proving hard for fans and friends of the ‘geek royalty’ author to process

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Looking back on National Service in 1970

Ten years after the last callup, the Observer assessed attitudes, which were perhaps surprisingly positive, to compulsory recruitment in the armed forces

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