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The Observer view on Dan Poulter and the failing Conservative government

The former Tory health minister has defected to Labour over the crisis in the NHS and has rightly called for an early election

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Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis

Ex-health minister Dan Poulter, who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’

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‘Everyone knows something’s going to happen’: fears of a new war on Israel’s border with Lebanon

As hostilities ramp up, Israelis evacuated from the country’s north say Hezbollah must be pushed back to protect communities from its rockets

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‘Plasma was called liquid gold’: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal

Documents examined by inquiry show officials knew people were being given infected blood products, but sanctioned their use

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Three and a bit years after Brexit, are border checks finally here?

Sort of: this week will see inspections of some goods. But the hit to businesses and inflation will be inescapable

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Sadiq Khan: leaseholders in England should have the right to withhold service charges

London mayor says residents need a law protecting them from unfair and unexplained increases in levies by landlords

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70 Years of Skewering

The “magic dust” of adding funny drawings to words has been an important part of the Observer.

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Did Texas Police Violate First Amendment Rights of Pro-Palestine Protesters?

A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a journalist, at a campus demonstration.

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Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger from reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax

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‘There Have to Be Limits’: Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool Down

New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death."

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Unregulated ‘identity tracers’ harass people for debts they do not owe

Debt collection agencies in the UK are using fair means or foul to link people to an address where an unpaid debt has been run up, sometimes years after they have moved out

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Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa review – my ancestors’ role in the horror of apartheid

Cato Pedder, great-granddaughter of South African PM and white supremacist Jan Smuts, uses her family’s legacy to unearth stories of women that shaped, and were shaped by, a troubled nation

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Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review – economical with the truth about her own downfall

The former PM’s whingeing, unintentionally hilarious and scapegoating rant about the economy-crashing disaster of her time in No 10 is best read as a cautionary tale of hubristic zeal

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‘No dividing line’: consultants advising private water companies also work for their regulator, Ofwat

Campaigners call for the whole regulatory system to be replaced after Observer analysis finds watchdog spent more than £25m with consultancies

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Outgoing Tory MPs take lucrative second jobs and ‘swan off on jollies’

Sixty four Tories and four independent MPs who lost party whip plan to stand down from the Commons amid dire polling for Conservatives

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Longing for a baby in 1971

Three couples told the stories of their struggles to become parents

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We are ashamed of the role psychology played in gender care

Sixteen senior psychologists reveal how their profession failed young people at Gender Identity Development Service clinics

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Labour shifts poll tactics to target fearful Tory over-65s

Alarm grows over possible pension cuts as research suggests Jeremy Hunt tax cut announcement was ‘blunder’

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Revealed: the next Sherlock Holmes author, with a twist in the tale

The thriller writer Gareth Rubin focuses on Professor Moriarty, the great detective’s nemesis, in a new adventure approved by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s family

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Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

Texas Observer

Poem: elegy for the [insert school shooting] children’s f—

From the March/April 2024 issue of the Texas Observer

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The Guardian and the Observer win six Press Awards

The Guardian and the Observer has won six Press Awards, including an excellence in diversity award, at a ceremony held in London last night (Thursday 18 April).

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Guardian wins award for exposé of founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

Press Awards recognise cross-platform Cotton Capital series, and there are wins for several Guardian reporters

Texas Observer

In Travis County, a Fight over Bail Hearings Has Big Stakes for Criminal Defendants

Some arrestees in Austin lack legal representation at a stage that can determine their cases’ outcome. The ACLU wants to change that.

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Saving Lone Star Literary Life

A literary website that has connected bookish Texans since 2015 nearly closed this year. Then one of its readers saved it.

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