Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Observer

‘This Weird, Messy State We All Love in Spite of Ourselves’

Abby Rapoport continued a family tradition of making the Texas Observer possible—by filling just about every role the organization has.

Texas Observer

Netanyahu’s lethal bombs will turn Lebanon into another Gaza. He must be brought down now

The Israeli leader needs forever wars to keep himself in power. Innocent lives just don’t matter, says Simon Tisdall, the foreign affairs commentator of the Observer

The Guardian - UK

Solidarity from Solitary and Beyond

Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

Texas Observer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle review – his best yet

In the third outing for Paula Spencer – mother, alcoholic, domestic abuse survivor – Doyle captures her strength and vulnerability in prose that radiates energy and life

The Guardian - UK

UK's Starmer Rules Out Austerity As Labour Conference Opens

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised to protect public services and ruled out austerity measures as his Labour party's annual conference kicked off on Sunday, its first in 15 years as a governing party.

International Business Times

‘Affordable’ shared-ownership homes cost residents more than half their wages

Many people now feel trapped despite major provider’s guidance that mortgage, rent and service charges should not exceed 40% of take-home pay

The Guardian - UK

Starmer and Gray took football freebie in latest gifts row

Keir Starmer has opened the Labour conference with a defence of his gift-taking but is facing questions about hospitality at another football match

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘Scam and scandal’: ex-aid chief raises alarm over £4bn Tory asylum contracts

The former top civil servant at the Department for International Development has warned a lack of oversight in spending echoes corrupt contracts awarded during Covid

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on Mohamed Al Fayed: despite #MeToo, women are still at the mercy of powerful predators

The web of fear woven by the former Harrods boss shows that men with money and power continue to pose a problem

The Guardian - UK

There goes the honeymoon: stunned Labour heads to conference in a spin

Rows over freebies and hints of unrest in No 10 have soured the mood of July’s victory – and the poll numbers are plunging already

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak, poll suggests

Opinium poll for the Observer finds a 45-point drop in the prime minister’s approval rating since he won the election

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer vows to protect public services from fresh austerity

Prime minister insists he offers more than ‘doom and gloom’ but admits that leaks and squabbles are damaging the Downing Street operation

The Guardian - UK

Madonna given standing ovation at Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan tribute show

The pop superstar goes back decades with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, and appeared in head-to-toe D&G

The Guardian - UK

Crime victims in UK fight ‘devastating’ practice that stops appeal after a case is dropped

Senior law officers urged to intervene over potential wrongful acquittals when Crown Prosecution Service offers no evidence

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Guardian parent company in talks over potential sale of Observer

Guardian Media Group announces it is in negotiations with Tortoise Media over world’s oldest Sunday newspaper

Texas Observer

The Company You Keep

Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a corporate honcho caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.

The Guardian - UK

Mother State by Helen Charman; What Are Children For? by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman review – the body political

Two important new books find that the choices – and obstacles – facing mothers and would-be mothers have changed little in the past 50 years

The Guardian - UK

And so farewell, it’s time to say goodbye to my gardening column

After 25 years at the Observer, I’m moving on – but the plot and the shared pleasure of growing will continue

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Tottenham v Arsenal: blood feud or a bit of banter for bragging rights?

The Observer travels deep into the heart of north London to explore whether the bitter rivalry is all it’s cracked up to be

The Guardian - UK

Icelandic fishing giant Samherji sues art student for spoofing corporate website

High court told ‘culture-jammed’ apology for high-profile corruption scandal ‘did not qualify as parody’

The Guardian - UK

Janet Watts obituary

Journalist with the Guardian and Observer for 25 years whose interviewing technique disarmed her subjects

The Guardian - UK

Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

Millions are rejecting the culture-war hotspots of the major social media sites in favour of apps dedicated to activities they enjoy, while bonding with their fellow users

The Guardian - UK

Water firms in England and Wales lost more than 1tn litres from leaks last year

Hundreds of millions of litres were wasted every day, with Thames Water revealed as the worst offender

The Guardian - UK

‘It all felt new and exciting’: Observer Magazine writers share their memories

From interviews with Dusty Springfield and Agatha Christie to Jane Bown’s astounding pictures and, of course, Nigel Slater’s recipes… Some of our most loved writers, photographers, columnists and creatives share their stories of happy days on the mag

The Guardian - UK

‘It’ll have bite, be radical and funny’: celebrating 60 years of the Observer Magazine

It’s six decades since David Astor launched the first issue of the Observer Magazine. Here, we look at its evolution

1 … 18 19 20 21

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.