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The Observer view on the Gaza ceasefire: it’s time for both sides to think again

The Observer view on the Gaza ceasefire: it’s time for both sides to think again

The ceasefire in Gaza, due to begin tomorrow, will bring welcome relief from daily violence but amounts, at present, to little more than a fragile,...

19.01.2025 6

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The Observer view: With Hollywood ablaze, ditching carbon targets would be an act of recklessness

The Observer view: With Hollywood ablaze, ditching carbon targets would be an act of recklessness

The devastating wave of wildfires that has reduced thousands of Hollywood homes to ashes could not have afflicted the US at a more telling moment....

12.01.2025 10

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The Observer view on the New Orleans attack: lone terrorist threat calls for wisdom, not divisive rhetoric

The Observer view on the New Orleans attack: lone terrorist threat calls for wisdom, not divisive rhetoric

The FBI says the man who drove a speeding truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, early on New Year’s Day, killing 14 people, acted...

05.01.2025 5

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The Observer view on calls for a national inquiry into child sexual abuse

The Observer view on calls for a national inquiry into child sexual abuse

Just over a decade ago, with the publication of an independent inquiry, Britain confronted the horror of the sexual abuse of children that had...

05.01.2025 9

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The Observer view on Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary: Once more unto the breeches

For some, it will be enough merely to re-read Persuasion, and thence to cry yet again at Captain Wentworth’s declaration of utmost love for Anne...

29.12.2024 30

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The Observer view on the UK economy: don’t despair, signs of growth are emerging

A downside of living in a country with an extraordinarily one-sided media is that it becomes ever harder not to be affected by the...

29.12.2024 60

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The Observer view on Labour’s plans to reform education

Great teaching is the most powerful lever schools have to improve children’s education, according to the Education Endowment Foundation. So, how...

22.12.2024 9

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The Observer view on the Church of England: how does it recover after its annus horribilus?

Next week churches, chapels and cathedrals across England will be celebrating Christmas in traditional style. Congregations doubled, the pews will...

22.12.2024 30

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The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus

One struggle ends, another begins. Revolution begets counter-revolution. Hopes soar, disappointment and disillusion follow. Is this what the future...

16.12.2024 30

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The Observer view on Luke Littler: kebabs, banter and straight as an arrow, no wonder Britain loves him

In a puritanical age of wellness, non-alcoholic drinks and going to the gym, an unlikely sport is thriving: darts. On Sunday the World Darts...

15.12.2024 5

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The Observer view on trade relations: Closer ties with EU is the lever for economic growth

Achieving the fastest sustainable growth in the G7 was the Labour party’s highest-profile pledge going into the general election last July....

16.11.2024 2

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The Observer view: how Leonardo, Van Gogh and Monet help us to transcend the gloom

There can rarely have been such a meeting of political jeopardy and artistic genius as in Florence in 1504. After the violent overthrow of the...

09.11.2024 4

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The Observer view on US election: lessons for the left in wake of damning defeat

Donald Trump’s unexpectedly clearcut victory in last week’s US presidential election is a wake-up call for the progressive left in America and...

09.11.2024 10

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The Observer view: a bold budget that’s the right response to years of neglect

The first Labour budget in 14 years introduced some much-needed honesty on the requirement for higher taxes and borrowing in an ageing society...

02.11.2024 2

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The Observer view on the Middle East: a year on, there is only one way to a credible peace

Tomorrow’s first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas terror attacks on southern Israel in which more than 1,200 people were killed and about 250...

06.10.2024 10

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The Observer view on Sudan: decisive action is needed to avert catastrophe, but where is the will?

After 17 months of civil war, the very last thing Sudan needs is another bloody battle. Yet that is exactly what its unfortunate people got last...

29.09.2024 20

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The Observer view on the Middle East crisis: Biden’s failure on Gaza is fuelling wider war

The Middle East crisis has reached an extremely dangerous juncture. That’s a statement made many times since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel...

22.09.2024 40

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The Observer view on the UK economy: Labour is holding back when it should be bold

Rachel Reeves had some sobering news last week about the UK economy and how much it grew in July. The message from the Office for National...

15.09.2024 30

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The Observer view on Russia: Putin’s retaliation against Ukraine must persuade Biden to relent over arms

The huge waves of lethal Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities last week had three main aims. One was to re-terrorise a civilian...

01.09.2024 10

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The Observer view on the riots after the Southport killings: extremists have launched an assault on the rule of law

Last Monday, three girls under the age of 10 were killed at a dance workshop for primary schoolchildren in a horrific knife attack that left eight...

04.08.2024 20

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