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Labour rips itself apart
Writing in The Observer Tony Blair bites back ‘My institute hasn’t been bought off by tech bros. AI is blowing my mind’ Andrew Rawnsley ‘Blair is a victim of selfdelusion’ Rachel Sylvester A revolution is coming: proportional representation Andy...
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Artificial stupidity
The world is losing its mind to artificial intelligence. AI is a transformative technology; it’s not a magical power. It’s time to call out those falling under its spell. Start with the moneymen. The prospectus for the sale of Elon Musk’s SpaceX shares...
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Comeback for UK’s largest bird of prey
Britain’s largest bird of prey is to return to Exmoor after a successful conservation programme on the Isle of Wight. The white-tailed eagle, also known as a sea eagle, was once extinct in the UK. Almost 50 birds have now been collected from wild nests...
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The man who bought Britain
David Aaronovitch on the biggest donor in British political history Catherine Neilan on the coming investigation into Nigel Farage
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In North Korea, foreign culture can mean death
North Korea executes more people for consuming foreign media than for murder, according to a study of capital punishment by a South Korean human rights organisation. The Transitional Justice Working Group examined 367 executions or death sentences...
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Call for secure storage in school phone ban
The government is to ban smartphones in English schools through an amendment in the Lords to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill, having previously argued that non-statutory guidance was sufficient. Nine out of 10 secondary schools do not allow...
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THE NEW OBSERVER MAGAZINE
Nigel Slater THE OBSERVER’S FOOD WRITER Hannah Crosbie DRINKS COLUMNIST Tomos Parry CHEF AT BRAT AND MOUNTAIN David Williams WINE CRITIC Georgina Hayden FOOD WRITER AND BROADCASTER Holly O’Neill THE OBSERVER’S FOOD EDITOR
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British tech projects axed and postponed
OpenAI has pulled out of a landmark information technology project in Britain, blaming regulatory concerns and high energy costs. Stargate UK was part of a £31bn package of US tech investment in Britain announced last September but the firm has paused...
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New arrest made in ambulance arson case
Police made a new arrest yesterday in connection with an alleged arson attack on four Jewish community ambulances in London. It came as Hamza Iqbal, 20, and Rehan Khan, 19, both British nationals from Leyton, and a 17-year-old boy from Walthamstow,...
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Two arrests over attack on Jewish ambulances
Two men were arrested over an arson attack on four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity in north London. The Hatzola vehicles, which provide free emergency response to people of all faiths, were set alight in a synagogue car park in Golders Green. The...
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Assisted dying bill ruled out in Scotland
The Scottish parliament voted against assisted dying by 69 votes to 57. Liam McArthur, a Liberal Democrat who tabled the proposal, criticised opponents for extending the suffering of the dying; others said they feared vulnerable people could feel...
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Closer ties with EU become the ‘biggest prize’ for chancellor
Oxford and Cambridge will be turned into “Europe’s Silicon Valley” in plans to be laid out by the government this week. A new development corporation for Greater Oxford will coordinate the initiative, cutting through bureaucracy to regenerate the area...
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‘The enemy of nonsense’ George Orwell, The Observer
Mark Cruft’s weekend by tackling our puzzles pullout 1. Sport looks for the lessons football can learn from Spain’s ‘friendly derby’ 2. New Review celebrates the 80th birthday of Liza Minnelli 3 with Tanya Gold’s tale of her extraordinary life, Róisín...
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Only connect
Matt Weston swooped to gold for Team GB on a sled designed by a engineer with a PhD from Nottingham University (Sport, page 12). But his fellow skeleton sledder, Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych, was not allowed to swoop at all. Heraskevych wore a...
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Old news
Patrick Bateman is “an endless void,” writes Megan Nolan. The antihero of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel American Psycho has become a weird avatar of masculinity. As Susannah Clapp reviews Rupert Goold’s stage adaptation of Ellis’ novel at the Almeida...
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Rewriting the book on cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee, the oncologist and author of The Emperor of All Maladies, is a pioneer of cancer treatment atment and also its master chronicler. er. Writer Chris Power was diagnosed gnosed with a tumour in his abdomen en and, following...
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Image and reality
In 1959, The Observer published the photo that gave Don McCullin his first break. Within a few years he had become a renowned chronicler of violence in Vietnam, in Cyprus and Biafra. Is he happy to be given the title “war photographer”, Andrew Anthony...
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Blackmail over Greenland
Donald Trump puts rising tariffs on the UK and European allies until he gets control of Danish territory
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