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  • Kemi Badenoch Rachel Reeves Composite.

    Labour challenges Badenoch to back billions for public services and tax rises

    Rachel Reeves throws down budget gauntlet to new Tory chief as party’s first black leader is congratulated on win
  • Soldiers in street cleaning away mud.

    Spain floods: 10,000 troops and police drafted in to deal with disaster

News

  • A tip plate at a restaurant.

    Gig economy firm under fire for telling restaurants they can avoid UK’s new tipping laws

  • Rachel Reeves and Kemi Badenoch.

    Budget and Badenoch: how two historic moments will redraw battle lines in British politics

    Rachel Reeves’s high-spending budget and the new ‘culture warrior’ Tory leader mark sharp divide between government and opposition
  • Emily Spurrell, police and crime commissioner for Merseyside.

    Southport attack has exposed ‘a crisis with trust’, says policing chief

    Fury over new charges for accused leaves room for conspiracy theories, says chair of Association of Police and Crime Commissioners

  • Addicted to love: how dating apps ‘exploit’ their users

  • ‘She’s a star’: Henley-on-Thames gives warm welcome (mostly) to Kemi Badenoch

  • Graphene-chip implant in UK trial could transform brain tumour surgery

  • King and Prince William’s estates ‘making millions from charities and public services’

  • UK schools boost maternity pay to stem exodus of female teachers in their 30s

  • Is austerity over? Will farmers lose out? Six big questions about Rachel Reeves’s budget

  • NHS £22.6bn funding boost in England ‘not enough’, warn health experts

  • Revealed: English neo-Nazi who stabbed asylum seeker was serial stalker

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World

  • A picture of Samuel Paty on display during an award ceremony in the teacher’s honour at the Sorbonne in Paris on October 19, 2024

    French pupil’s father to go on trial for spreading lies that led to teacher’s Islamist beheading

    Eight charged in connection with murder of Samuel Paty in Paris suburbs in 2020
  • President Maia Sandu attends a press conference on 1 November.

    Moldova votes for president in runoff election as Russia hovers

  • Newly arrived refugees fleeing fighting in Darfur queue to have their documents processed at the border of Sudan and Chad.

    ‘We will make you have Arab babies’: fears of genocide amid rape and torture in Sudan’s Darfur

  • Greek civilians looking at the German army making its way to Salonika in 1941.

    Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessaloniki’s Holocaust museum is finally set to open

  • Voters wait in line to cast their ballots during the last day of early voting in Gwinnett county, Georgia, on Friday.

    Candidates try to divine trends as nearly 70m Americans have cast early votes

  • A devastated street in Gaza City on 2 November, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

    ‘Death is everywhere’: fears grow that Israel plans to seize land in Gaza

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In focus

  • Mark Strong as Oedipus and Lesley Manville as Jocasta (centre) in a new production of Oedipus at London’s Wyndham theatre.

    Sex and taboos: how Sigmund Freud’s ideas freed secrets of the female psyche

    An exhibition at the psychoanalyst’s London home and two new stage shows have reopened the debate on women’s desires
  • Baby on the Move

    The global fertility crisis: are fewer babies a good or a bad thing? Experts are divided

  • A composite of Kamala Harris

    Harris pitches self as a unifier with a ‘to-do list’ – is it enough for knife-edge race?

  • Peter Pomerantsev

    Polling has turned the US election into a game. We need to take a reality check

    Peter Pomerantsev
  • Youth Workers Kat Taylor and Amani El-Aziz, right, at Wandsworth police station.

    Knife wounds, arrests… then a friendly face: inside the anti-violence unit fighting to save children from crime

  • Sports Team at the Nags Head, Camberwell, London

    ‘You had to swim to the stage’: why guerrilla gigs are on the rise again

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Comment

  • Kenan Malik

    Today’s populism is informed by bigotry, but its roots lie in the promise of equality

    Kenan Malik
  • Martha Gill

    We are in danger of forgetting what the climate crisis means: extinction

    Martha Gill
  • Nicci Gerrard Comment pieces

    A decade ago, my father suffered alone and in misery. Why do dementia sufferers still face the same fate?

    Nicci Gerrard
    Launched in the Observer, John’s Campaign aims to give frail people the right to be accompanied by those who love them

  • Investment drives growth. That’s why gloomy forecasters are so wrong about the budget

    Will Hutton

  • Cadbury’s ‘snack right’ slogan is hard to swallow when the company is a ‘sponsor of war’

    Catherine Bennett

  • I didn’t mind my unusual first name – until I found out it could cost me dearly

    Torsten Bell

  • Chris Riddell on the Tory nightmare after Halloween – cartoon

  • Kemi Badenoch’s first task as Tory leader: say sorry to the people for her party’s failings

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Donald Trump is a superspreader of a craziness that has split America in two

    Simon Tisdall

  • Dracula’s Castle, a monument to 1980s excess, is about to be cruelly defanged

    Rowan Moore

  • Britons are dying in a blizzard of cheap cocaine. Why is so little being done to save them?

    Martha Gill
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Editorials & Letters

  • woman preparing to take cocaine

    Stubbornly glamorous cocaine lures us into addiction

  • For the record

    Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands | Kate Bush | Rumble in the Jungle
  • Soldiers on training exercise.

    The Observer view on Ukraine: the west must give Zelenskyy free rein now North Korea has joined the war

    By promising troops to Russia, Kim Jong-un has internationalised the conflict, adding to instability around the world
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Business & Cash

  • Fishing for a credit card in the post can hook in thousands of pounds.

    Expecting a new credit card in the post? Beware the ‘not received’ scam

  • A man walks past a restaurant shopfront with a sign saying 'Join our team'

    America’s fight with inflation has been won – just in time for a bigger battle

  • Employees of the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau stand on the factory premises during an information event organised by the Works Council of Volkswagen on 28 October.

    Volkswagen cuts plan sends shock through the ‘Detroit of east Germany’

  • Shoppers in the Merseyway shopping centre in Stockport

    ‘It’s become a wasteland’: Britons on how shopping centres have changed

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Sport

  • Michael Caulfield with his dog Paisley

    The sports psychologist making a difference with a dog and a bench at Brentford

  • Marcus Smith had one of his finest games in an England shirt.

    Smith substitution leaves England wondering what might have been

    Steve Borthwick’s decision to replace both half-backs led to his side ceding the initiative in the game to New Zealand
  • Flavien Part celebrates riding Sierra Leone to victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

    City of Troy pays price for slow start in Breeders’ Cup Classic

    City of Troy finished eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic after a slow break from the stalls in a race won by Sierra Leone, another Coolmore horse

  • Ruud van Nistelrooy ready for criticism from ex-Manchester United teammates

  • Liam Livingstone onslaught helps England level West Indies ODI series

  • European football: Simeone criticises playing in Spain after floods disaster

  • Wing Darcy Graham crosses four times in Scotland’s rout of Fiji

  • Rúben Amorim has the Ferguson aura but will the United job eat the rising star?

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Marc Guéhi strikes for Crystal Palace to deny Wolves first league win of season

  • England captain George absolves Ford of blame after dramatic loss to All Blacks

  • New Zealand find a way to win after England make dents in tourists’ aura

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Reviews

  • Mark Eidelstein as Vanya dances in the street with Mikey Madison as Ani, wearing a bustier top, both brimming with happiness, with fireworks in the background.

    Anora review – Sean Baker’s screwball Cinderella tale vaults him towards greatness

  • Laura Marling performs at Hackney Church, London E5

    Laura Marling review – a sumptuous performance, with strings attached

  • E.T; Schindler's List; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Jaws

    Mark Kermode on… composer John Williams, master of unforgettable blockbuster soundtracks

  • La consagración II 91.06 by Belkis Ayón. (detail)

    Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations; Bettina von Zwehl: The Flood review – singularly strange

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New Review

  • Young people relax during their lunch break along the East River while a huge plume of smoke rises from Lower Manhattan after the attack on the World Trade Center.

    ‘A vivid distillation of a deeply fractured country’: a history of the United States in nine photographs

    As a landmark book, Magnum America, is released, we chart pivotal moments for the ​U​S via key images from the past 90 years​
  • Film stills from Star Wars, Jaws and Casablanca with captions

    Ticker-tape synaesthesia – when real life comes with subtitles

  • Noreen Masud, in a red dress, photographed against foliage in Bedford Square Gardens.

    On my radar: Noreen Masud’s cultural highlights

  • Gary O’Donoghue photographed in Washington DC by Justin T Gellerson for the Observer New Review, October 2024.

    The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue: ‘I knew those were gunshots, and then realised Trump had stopped talking’

  • Chatbot faces, Google's AI answer diamond symbol and magnifying glasses to illustrate a piece about AI and search optimisation

    The chatbot optimisation game: can we trust AI web searches?

  • David Mitchell

    Why be an early bird, if you don’t want worms?

    David Mitchell

  • ‘It’s not just shameful. It is humiliating’: four celebrated authors on their hopes and fears before the 2024 US election

  • The big picture: striking a pose in 1970s Lagos, Africa’s street-style capital

  • Anne Michaels: ‘Language can’t represent brutality’

  • Better, faster, stronger? Tech titans’ obsession with turbocharged computer power could be our downfall

    John Naughton

  • One to watch: Lambrini Girls

  • Writer Amy Key: ‘Knowing I’d finally hear Joni Mitchell sing live left me woozily panicked’

  • ‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

  • Humanist chaplain Greg Epstein: ‘Our bowed interactions with our phones look like worship’

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Magazine

  • VP-Kamala-Harris-Rally-in-Wilkes-Barre-Pennsylvania<br>Vice President Kamala Harris holds a rally on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 at the McHale Athletic Club in Wilkes-Barre, PA. (Photo by Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

    Fur and loathing: do America’s ‘childless cat ladies’ hold the key to the US election?

    When JD Vance dismissed Kamala Harris as a ‘childless cat lady’, it sparked controversy, brought Taylor Swift into the presidential debate and focused attention on right-wing political pressure placed on women to have children
  • Anne-Marie Duff shot for OM

    ‘The flaws are the sexy bits’: Anne-Marie Duff on courage, curiosity and the rare gifts of ageing

  • Matty Matheson holding a banana

    ‘You only get one shot so why not?’: The Bear’s Matty Matheson on cooking, addiction and making the most of life

  • January 6th Prisoners Rally, Washington DC, USA - 18 Sep 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/REX/Shutterstock (12450428q) Police stand guard as protesters gathered at the United States Capitol to voice their discontent of the persons who had been jailed or criminally charged in connection to January's Capitol Riot in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 18th. January 6th Prisoners Rally, Washington DC, USA - 18 Sep 2021

    My friend has embraced conspiracy theories and I’m fed up with it

  • OM Nigel Baked Pumpkin Miso

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for pumpkin miso wedges

  • Xanthe and Gareth Dewsnap House

    Make do and mend: a Welsh cottage gets all dressed up

  • Why discovering your ancestral roots can help you to truly feel like yourself

  • Amazing Antwerp: 10 ways to get the most out of Belgium’s cultural gem

  • Away with the fairies: magic and mystery at a unique festival

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for sausages and kimchi potato cakes, and spiced apple juice and chilli cheese biscuits

  • Halloween in Dublin is not for the faint-hearted

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: Ukraine’s hero chocolatiers

  • Beat the chill: 12 great men’s coats for wrapping up in style

  • Why the ‘club sandwich’ generation could do with sibling therapy

    Eva Wiseman
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Observer Food Monthly

  • Georgia Levy Opener All Recipes by Georgia Levy. Food Styling by Lizzie Harris

    One spicy roast chicken, four brilliant meals – recipes

    Make this chicken alla diavola, then use the leftovers for a Vietnamese salad, a spinach curry and a shawarma pitta. Plus inspiration for five more dishes
  • Several bowls of different kinds of crisps.

    The crunch, the flavours, the rituals: how crisps became a British snack obsession

  • OFM-Oct-Sarah Perry

    Sarah Perry: faith, telescopes and the perils of pigeon-holing writers

  • Ken Hom - HIGH RES RE-TOUCHED VERSION

    Ken Hom: ‘I was petrified of being in front of the camera. Doing TV was a nightmare’

  • From left, bean, sherry and sausage stew, and braised tomatoes with tahini sauce.

    Sausages, beans, soups – Nigel Slater’s robust autumn recipes

  • Alice Blogg with samples in her office/workshop Unit 9 Browns Farm, Nettlecombe, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3SS www.aliceblogg.co.uk

    Meet your makers: the artisans who help make eating out magical

  • Welcome to October’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Si King’s secret ingredient: yellow split peas

  • Cooking for one? Sometimes frozen lasagne just won’t cut it and life calls for a cheese soufflé

    Rachel Cooke

  • When pubs and restaurants close, our culture is a casualty

    Jay Rayner

  • Ham hock, Guinness bread, grilled mackerel: recipes from the Cafe Cecilia cookbook

  • Welcome to September’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Scissor-cut, stir-fry and ‘a hug in a bowl’: six great noodle recipes

  • Jeremy King: ‘The first time I was ever impressed by anyone was Meryl Streep’

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