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  • Keir Starmer chairs his debut cabinet meeting during his first full day as prime minister.

    Starmer tells his cabinet: now it’s time to deliver on our promises

    PM pledges swift action on NHS and prisons, setting out agenda to reform public services and rebuild international relations
  • Keir Starmer, the new prime minister, walking up the stairs at 10 Downing Street on Saturday.

    ‘It was surreal’: Labour’s dizzying transition to power, from polls to the palace

News

  • The Commons chamber at the Palace of Westminster. London, where some Labour MPs will have to sit on Opposition benches in busy times.

    Where will they all sit? Commons welcomes 334 rookie MPs in most diverse parliament

  • A man outside a pub in Barnsley with a St George’s Cross in the window

    ‘Everyone is fed up’: Reform sets sights on Labour stronghold Barnsley – but Farage still divides opinion

    Labour has long had a grip on the South Yorkshire town but Reform is hot on the party’s heels after taking a third of the vote in Barnsley South
  • Carla Denyer, Green party co-leader and new MP for Bristol Central.

    ‘We’ll push the government to be bolder’: Carla Denyer on election success for the Greens

    The party’s co-leader, now MP for Bristol Central, says she will pressure Starmer on climate, housing and services

  • Big brains and glittering careers: five fresh Labour MPs to watch

  • Prison reform experts hail role for shoe repair CEO James Timpson

  • ‘People are incandescent…’ How sewage spills became a vote-winner for the Lib Dems

  • Independent Muslim who beat Labour in Leicester says victory was not ‘sectarian’

  • England fans dare to dream after players hold nerve in Düsseldorf

  • ‘Andy Murray has changed culture of sport’: Wimbledon reflects on legacy

  • Starmer installs non-political ministers in ‘government of all the talents’

  • ‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeace

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World

  • An employee carries a blue shark into cold storage at Miami Pescado, Cananéia.

    ‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

    Despite curbs on certain species, trade in the cheap fish is booming. But worried conservationists say most people do not even realise they are eating shark
  • Constantine Cavafy

    Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows

  • Iwao Hakamada, left, flanked by his sister Hideko, on the day of his release in 2014.

    Man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes for chance to clear name

  • DJ Etienne de Crecy performed in front of thousands in Paris in protest at the result of the first round of voting in French elections.

    French artists, DJs and musicians unite to fight threat of far-right government

  • A group of Palestinian men and young children standing amid the ruins of bombed-out building

    Fears of long war in Gaza as new chapter opens and ‘intense fighting’ eases off

  • Oliver Waack-Jürgensen of the Berlin Cannabis Club High Ground said: ‘The situation with the authorities is totally unclear.’

    Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape

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In focus

  • Keir and Victoria Starmer outside No 10 Downing Street on Friday:

    Labour put ‘safe’ seats at risk to target marginals. It paid off – but there’s a cost

    The party’s landslide victory on only 34% of the vote was a masterpiece of electoral Jenga. But the taller the tower, the weaker the base, writes Robert Ford
  • Tessa Hadley

    ‘We need to wake up’: what authors wish for Britain as a new chapter begins

  • Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria celebrate during the Labour party’s victory rally at the Tate Modern in south London.

    Stunned silence, hugs and a very big kiss: at home with the Starmers on election night

  • Keir Starmer meets school children at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, north London.

    Uncool Britannia? How Britain might feel with the court of Sir Keir

  • Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat in the video for Smalltown Boy

    Why Bronski Beat’s anthem of gay culture resonates 40 years on

  • Nick Clegg and David Cameron, both in suits and ties, stand at podiums with microphones in the garden of 10 Downing Street and look at each other, Cameron gesturing with his right hand

    The 14 long and wasted years of Tory Britain

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Comment

  • Martha Gill

    Why do we find it hard to believe that the smiling nurse Lucy Letby was a serial killer?

    Martha Gill
  • A man with tattooed arms holds a bundle of French flags.

    France no longer resembles a divided but tolerant family. It is catastrophically fractured

    Andrew Hussey
    As voters decide in the second round of elections today, the far right’s shock success last week has left many asking what the future holds for the republic
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Keir Starmer stunned sceptics and rebuilt Labour. Now he must do the same for Britain

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Biden, Putin, Xi, Modi: what is it that keeps old ideas, as well as old people, in power?

    Kenan Malik

  • Great for parties, useless for governing: grace-and-favour homes are the spoils of power

    Catherine Bennett

  • If sportswomen were paid more, they might not feel obliged to get their kit off

    Barbara Ellen

  • Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer’s new broom – cartoon

  • No Boris Johnson, no deals with Nigel Farage: it’s time for the Tories to get serious

    Paul Goodman

  • In a fragile and dangerous era, strengthening ties with Europe is Britain’s most urgent challenge

    Kim Darroch

  • Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

    Tim Adams

  • Britain is on the brink of an opioid crisis. Punishing addicts won’t work

    Martha Gill
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Editorials & Letters

  • Keir Starmer holds a news conference after his first cabinet meeting on 6 July 2024.

    The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

  • Junior Doctors protest outside Downing Street in June

    Physician associates are heroes, not villains

    Doctors like me rely on these unsung stars of the medical profession

  • For the record

    Ian Huntley | Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex | Bulb Energy/Field Energy | Two Loves poem
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Business & Cash

  • Workers inspect the propellers of the Titanic in dry dock in 1916.

    Struggles at Belfast’s Titanic shipyard reflect UK’s faded naval power

  • William Keegan

    Keir Starmer ruled out rejoining the EU. Now he must think again

    William Keegan
  • Jonathan Reynolds in Downing Street last Friday before his appointment as business secretary.

    Thames, Tata, Shein – it won’t be business as usual for Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds

  • Amit Gudka stands smiling for a photograph in a hi-vis vest outdoors, with two banks of electrical equipment behind him

    ‘I totally understand why people are sceptical’: the co-founder of collapsed energy giant Bulb on his new venture

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Sport

  • England fans celebrate victory in the last-16 match against Slovakia at Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen.

    Euro 2024 diary: polyester, parkrun and how England squad might vote

  • West Indies’ Shamar Joseph is congratulated by Brian Lara after their Test victory over Australia at The Gabba.

    Brian Lara: ‘West Indies have some of the best but talent isn’t everything’

    Cricketing legend Brian Lara tells Taha Hashim he is proud of the young West Indies team primed to take on England at Lord’s
  • William Fotheringham

    Remco Evenepoel in bloom can put a Belgian back on top of Tour de France

    William Fotheringham

  • Normal service resumed as Weghorst brings order from chaos for Netherlands

  • ‘I wasn’t focusing on the past – only on now’: Saka revels in penalty redemption

  • Bukayo Saka rewrites his story to end latest tale of uneasy England success

  • Netherlands fight back to see off Turkey and set up semi-final against England

  • Novak Djokovic rises to Alexei Popyrin challenge and reaches fourth round

  • England lose control and embrace the chaos to rise from the canvas again

  • Euro 2024 is a party – but continent’s fractures are there for all to see

    Jonathan Wilson

  • England into Euro 2024 semi-finals after dramatic shootout win over Switzerland

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Reviews

  • Eddie Murphy aiming a hand gun in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – Eddie Murphy’s megawatt charisma lights up creaking sequel

  • Janelle Monáe on stage in Manchester last week.

    Janelle Monáe review: a masterclass in progressive showbiz spectacle

  • Davyd Burliuk, Carousel, 1921

    In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s review – a small yet blazing act of solidarity

  • From left: Willem Dafoe in Kathryn Bigelow’s debut feature, The Loveless (1981); her Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker (2008); Jessica Chastain in political thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

    Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

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New Review

  • A vivid iPad still life of dandelions, buttercups and violets; a red- and purple-toned iPad self-portrait of David Hockney smoking a cigarette, wearing glasses and looking directly at the viewer; still life of a pink lily in front of a window with its blinds drawn.

    My friend David Hockney: Martin Gayford on the prophet of painting

    Thanks to his sharp wit and turn of phrase, the British artist’s voice is almost as distinctive as his line. A new book introduced by the art critic Martin Gayford gathers his musings on art, life, nature, creativity and more
  • Jonathan Bailey and Jade Anouka in Cock; Sarah Jessica Parker in Plaza Suite; Tom Holland in Romeo & Juliet; the cast of Cabaret.

    ‘It’s licensed touting, essentially’: has sky high ticket pricing turned London theatre into the wild West End?

  • Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus kiss on the very top of a tall building

    ‘It’s easier than life on the ground’: meet the Russian climbers who fell in love scaling the world’s skyscrapers

  • From left, Mark Graham, Callum Cant and James Muldoon

    James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

  • The artist Mark Leckey in Margate

    On my radar: Mark Leckey’s cultural highlights

  • Dancers leaping in wild shapes

    ‘My flash kept blinding everyone on the dancefloor’: Elaine Constantine on capturing 90s northern soul all-nighters

  • I’m lost in the foothills of a mountain of TV

    David Mitchell

  • Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński: ‘Breakdancing feeds into my performances – music dictates the way you move on stage’

  • The big picture: Louis Stettner on commuters in 1950s New York

  • Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: ‘Satire is a way to make myself less depressed’

  • Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour

  • Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent

    John Naughton

  • One to watch: Berlioz

Magazine

  • hands tied by a wire round a gaming console

    Totally wired: why are so many young people addicted to video games?

    Locked in their bedrooms, playing video games into the small hours, children as young as 10 years old are now addicted to their consoles. Tim Lewis hears how the compulsive games can be impossible to resist – and meets the experts tackling the issue
  • David Badiel in his office in London

    ‘I have an obsession with authenticity’: David Baddiel on growing up, golf and family affairs

  • Katy Wix for Observer Magazine

    Could you forgive your childhood bully? Katy Wix confronts a painful memory

  • Close-up Of A Man Holding Empty Pocket With His Hand<br>KC65W5 Close-up Of A Man Holding Empty Pocket With His Hand

    I’m a failure and in debt. And now my partner is pregnant

  • The Alhambra aerial panoramic view in Granada, Spain<br>The Alhambra aerial panoramic view. The Alhambra is a fortress complex located in Granada city, Andalusia region in Spain.

    The train in Spain: seeing Andalucía by rail

  • Lisa Wright leaning against a tree looking pensive

    I was alone in my grief when my parents died – but missing them gave me the answer

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast chicken with pepper and olives, and marinated strawberries

  • I’m hoping my son, aged five, has the makings of a political commentator

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: in dangerous times, you can depend on a good bar

  • Polyamory? Celibacy? Today’s sexual politics reveals much about the way we live

    Eva Wiseman

  • Sunday with Louise Minchin: ‘I’m an activity addict’

  • Nothing says summer like an orange lipstick

  • Goda, London: ‘They take rotisserie very seriously’ – restaurant review

  • Coming up rosés: properly tasty pink wines to get summer sizzling

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Observer Food Monthly

  • Observer Food Spread (1)

    Curry tasting in Fife, oysters on Exmoor: expert tips for foodie holidays around Britain

    If you’re planning a visit to the holiday hotspots of the West Country, Kent or the Edinburgh area – make these food and drink destinations the highlights of your trip
  • Illustration of woman holding huge bowl of food

    Aubergine caviar, post-Soviet kebab kiosks: what Ukraine’s food culture taught me 30 years ago

  • José Pizarro’s prawn pil pil tortilla. Food and prop styling: Polly Webb-Wilson

    ‘Spain is much more than patatas bravas’: José Pizarro’s summer recipes

  • Grilled halibut, basil butter

    Grilled sardines, baked hake, baked haddock: Nigel Slater’s easy fish recipes

  • The Pig near Canterbury in Kent

    Welcome to June’s Observer Food Monthly

  • vegan nutritional yeast flakes in bowl

    Richard Bainbridge’s secret ingredient: nutritional yeast

  • Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

  • Comedian Allan Mustafa: ‘I love banh mi. I geek out on being able to eat history’

  • Wake up and smell the yorkshires – Sunday lunch is back!

    Rachel Cooke

  • Farming is risky and vital – it needs to be on the next UK government’s priority list

    Jay Rayner

  • Pancetta tarts, vegan ginger slice, onion flatbreads – Nigel Slater’s recipes for all-day bakes

  • Welcome to May’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Lamb kofta, sea bream puttanesca, potato cakes – 20-minute recipes from Anna Haugh

  • Ruby Bhogal’s secret ingredient – ginger, in all forms

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