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Editorial: Through a combination of soft and hard power, Europe must seek to ensure Kyiv has agency and a voice in peace negotiations

Editorial: Wes Streeting is building a team of reformers, but ingrained weaknesses in the health service will be hard to fix

It’s not just Starmer’s policy is immoral and will be ineffective. It also sidesteps the safeguards we have to prevent calamitous decisions, says the secret civil servant

Pity the Oscars. There they were thinking they were hogging the stage for sheer compelling screen time – the frocks! The gum-throwing! The big, shocking reveals! Jeff Bezos at the after parties! But we all knew different. The most outrageously compelling watch of the last few days was the incendiary…

For too long UK law has trailed behind internet platforms. After a long-awaited review, ministers must put this right, says Fiona Vera-Gray, a professor of sexual violence

I feel more focused and energetic than ever before. But as I have changed, so has my algorithm

The world’s most admired democracy is being held hostage by a clique of far-right thugs. It would be a mistake to placate them, says the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

What Trump has been signaling loudly and clearly is that he gladly accepts and even encourages the acquisition of territory by force

My husband – like many others – is obsessed with the ‘seasoning’, cleaning and pH levels of these hefty, hulking pans. Must I tolerate it?