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Investigation reveals more than 150 fake firms, many with ties to China, are targeting people online, breaking their hearts – and emptying their bank accounts

Abused, kidnapped and lost – the government should hang its head in shame over its lack of care towards vulnerable minors

The southern Thai cooking at Supawan in King’s Cross is exceptional. Bring your dad along, too, it might inspire him to get busy in the kitchen

The paleobiologist and author of Foyles’ nonfiction book of 2022 on Earth’s deep past, the joys of the British Library, and how early four-limbed vertebrates helped him find his feet

Whistleblower tells of threats and illegal detention in fresh revelations about failures that drove children into hands of criminals

The Observer said that government officials gave the new Prime Minister informal advice as he drew up his Cabinet about the risks of an HMRC probe.

Nick Acheson has spent many hours studying wild geese. Now he’s written a book about the beauty of these birds and what they can teach us about how to live with nature

The Observer said that government officials gave the new Prime Minister informal advice as he drew up his Cabinet about the risks of an HMRC probe.

Two young Thai pro-democracy activists began a hunger strike in prison on January 18, 2023 to demand the release of several activists arrested for the crime of "lèse-majesté" – that is, for criticising the royal family. Our Observer, their lawyer, told us how this law is often used to silence…

Editor of the Observer in the 1970s and 80s who fought to retain the paper’s integrity and identity

The veteran journalist helmed the paper from 1975 to 1993.