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20 April 2025

  • Mohammed Yusuf, six, and his sister Amma Sajid, five, in Lister park Bradford.

    ‘We just go to the park’: making the most of Easter in a child-poverty hotspot

  • The press and supporters gather round the For Women Scotland campaign team that secured a supreme court ruling on the definition of a woman.

    The Observer view on Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone

  • OM Archive Cover Living with Children -22 Sep 1974

    From the Observer archive
    How we let our babies down in 1974

  • Penelope Brown

    ‘Breaking our spirits was the plan’: the lifelong impact of having gone to boarding school

19 April 2025

  • A large crowd of protesters holding banners promoting trans rights outside the Houses of Parliament

    ‘One hell of a turnout’: trans activists rally in London against gender ruling

  • Kate Maltby

    Parenting at every age
    Stepmothers, relax, you’ll always be wicked but true love is worth it

    Kate Maltby
  • Cameroonians Solange Ndonga Tibesa, 30, and Tessy Ekpang, 29, live in the Adagom settlement in Nigeria on land donated by the Nigerian government

    ‘I love my country but nobody is safe’: the plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    Even if you’re not a person of faith, there are reasons to see Antoni Gaudí as a saint

    Rowan Moore

  • The networker
    You are descending into populist frustration. Thank you for continuing to hold

    John Naughton

  • Pledge to create thousands more nursery places has backfired, early years groups say

  • ‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

  • An Israeli bomb took a teen’s arm in Gaza. She’s healing with a family in Philadelphia

  • ‘I’d named my autistic son in my will – I didn’t realise that would only cause problems’

  • Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time

  • ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

18 April 2025

  • Melanie Field.

    Court ruling on ‘woman’ at odds with UK Equality Act aim, says ex-civil servant

    ‘Clear premise’ was to give trans and biological women same sex discrimination rights, says official who helped draft act
  • Green party poster in house window

    Green party candidate tries to evict Labour opponent from property

    Labour says move is hypocrisy since Greens support ban on no-fault evictions such as one served on Labour candidate and her family

    • Robbie Williams says he feels ‘panic’ when fans approach in public

    • Residents of London apartment block left without running water for 12 days

    • JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner

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