The Observer - April 20, 2025
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April 20, 2025
Fear and despair rise in Gaza as seven-week Israeli blockade bites
Gaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip.
4 mins
Miliband in attack on Farage's net zero 'lies'
Ed Miliband today tears into Nigel Farage and the Tories for peddling dangerous \"nonsense and lies\" by suggesting the UK's net zero target is responsible for destroying Britain's businesses, including its steel industry.
4 mins
Second teachers' union vows to strike
A second teaching union in England has vowed to strike if the government fails to compensate schools in full for next year's teachers' pay award.
1 min
Fears rise that military bases may be leaking toxins into drinking water
Three more MoD sites are marked for urgent investigation into 'forever chemicals' by new risk screening tool
3 mins
'People were lying at my feet. I told them: get up, get up. They were silent'
Alla Shyrshonkova was on the 62 bus when Russian missiles fell on a warm spring day. She staggered out into a vision of hell.
5 mins
Putin announces surprise Easter ceasefire as a 'test for Kyiv regime'
Remarks on state TV greeted with scepticism after coinciding with air raid alert in Ukraine
2 mins
With Labour sliding and the Tories moribund, this is the first true five-party election
A byelection in a normally safe Labour seat was Keir Starmer's first big electoral test as Labour leader. A similar scenario now provides his first test as prime minister. The loss of Hartlepool to Boris Johnson's Conservatives in 2021 provoked the biggest crisis of Starmer's time as opposition leader, forcing sweeping changes in personnel and approach. The loss of Runcorn and Helsby to Nigel Farage's Reform UK could be similarly bruising. Labour ought to start as favourites, having won this socially mixed marginal corner of Cheshire by a massive margin less than a year ago. But with polls showing a Labour slump, a Reform surge and a restive, dissatisfied public, all bets are off.
3 mins
If our political opponents want a fight about clean energy, then bring it on
The world feels more uncertain and unpredictable just now than at any time in my political lifetime.
2 mins
Monster tax break hands Jurassic film studio millions
HMRC paid £89m for one of the most costly movies ever - and another's on the way
1 min
'If it's sunny, we're in the park ... it's a nice environment'
As ministers are attacked over their child poverty strategy, Robyn Vinter visits one of the country's most deprived communities, Manningham in Bradford
3 mins
Fears that cash-strapped schools are evicting nurseries and claiming funds for early years care
Scheme designed to increase places may have opposite effect, warn private providers
4 mins
Major rebellion hardens over Labour's £5bn benefits cut
Labour MPs opposed to the government's massive £5bn of benefit cuts say they will refuse to support legislation to implement them, even if more money is offered by ministers to alleviate child poverty in an attempt to win them over.
2 mins
'People have forgotten how far Weinstein's damage went. It hasn't gone away'
As the disgraced film mogul returns to court, a British victim's play recalls how the abusive culture did not only harm celebrities
2 mins
United, undeterred and unafraid, trans people rally over court ruling
After last week's supreme court decision, activists had been worried that trans people might become fearful of going out in public in case they were abused.
2 mins
From kitchen staple to design icon: lifting the lid on the humble teapot
The British think the cuppa is their national treasure, but a new interest in tea sets among young people is bringing with it an interest in the international cultural significance of the teatime ritual.
3 mins
TikTok choc trend causes shortage of pistachios
Product promotion on TikTok is now powerful enough to influence the vast agricultural economies of the US and Iran at least when it comes to the consumption of high-end confectionery.
1 min
New radioactive gas scare as prisoners at Doncaster jail fall ill
The government faces further potential legal action over concerns about levels of radon gas at a second prison, after Dartmoor jail was forced to close.
1 min
Puffing into the future: the digital upgrade keeping steam on track
About 500 steam trains run across the UK each year, from Penzance in the south to Inverness in the north, transporting tens of thousands of passengers to a bygone age, bringing joy to the faces of enthusiasts and bemusing commuters.
3 mins
How women suffer when their partners fall into the manosphere
More and more boyfriends and husbands are being seduced by the increasingly mainstream ideology of toxic masculinity, putting entire families at risk. Maya Oppenheim meets women who are still dealing with the wreckage
4 mins
Oranges are not the only fruit ... try kumquats, yuzu and a host of other tangs
When life gives you pithy cedro lemons and sweet Tacle mandarins, what exactly do you make with them?
3 mins
Orbán's stance on Ukraine pushes Hungary to brink in EU relations
Member states are considering removing the country's voting rights after its attempts to stymie support for Kyiv.
4 mins
Rent freezes and free subway: can a socialist take New York?
Can a 33-year-old cricket-playing socialist, who wants to freeze rent, make city transport free and once aspired to be a rapper win an already turbulent election to become the next mayor of New York?
3 mins
Exposing the 'western' spies sent by the KGB to keep tabs on the Prague Spring
Kremlin's most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to watch and at times whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then copied across the eastern bloc.
4 mins
Artists creating a new way to regenerate 'City of Gold'
Bethabile Mavis Manqele mops the veranda of the house she has lived in for most of the last 40 years.
3 mins
'Their pursuits are cigars and siestas'. How British authors forged our view of Spain
Almost 200 years ago, the pioneering British travel writer Richard Ford offered an observation that has been happily ignored by the legions of authors who have traipsed in his dusty footsteps across Spain, toting notebooks, the odd violin or Bible, and, of course, their own prejudices.
3 mins
'I love my country but nobody is safe' ... Cameroon's trapped exiles
Amid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares.
4 mins
Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved
The problems that now afflict attempts to establish a military presence in the far north of Canada and Greenland provide timely warnings about the miseries that lie ahead for the rest of the planet as global warming continues its remorseless spread.
2 mins
Made in Chipping Norton Reality TV comes to the Cotswolds. Oh, how jolly!
Our obsession with the filthy-rich finds fresh fuel as countryside celebrities get ready for close-ups of their stately piles, writes television critic Barbara Ellen
3 mins
The supreme court carefully ringfenced protections for women. That's all we wanted
Last week's ruling clarified the legal safeguards of the Equality Act. However, it was a travesty that the battle needed to be fought at all
4 mins
The May elections are a perfect opportunity for Nigel Farage to peddle his politics of grievance
For his next trick, perhaps Comrade Farage will belt out all the verses of The Red Flag and tell us that his favourite book is The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
6 mins
There's a deep ugliness and some slippery ethics behind the snail slime beauty boom
Apologies. As a reasonably attentive student of generational divides, I'm still late to one of the most dramatic divergences yet: the normalisation of snail slime.
4 mins
British Steel must now join the modern economy, not be a prisoner of the old
Lack of investment and vision has dogged UK industry, while China literally forged ahead
4 mins
Stepmothers, relax, you'll always be wicked but true love is worth it
Stepmothers have always been witches.
2 mins
There's only one way to fight the climate greenlash: appeal to the naysayers' self-interest
For a decade, green activists in Britain have been congratulating themselves on their luck.
3 mins
Saturday Night Live lost its bite long ago – and it won't find it over here
A British version of the once fearless, now formulaic, satirical show is on the way. Can it bring back the fun?
4 mins
Trump's political bullying of Harvard will do nothing to foster diversity of thought
Substituting liberal biases with conservative will only serve to subvert academic objectivity
4 mins
Another crisis, another IMF summit: but unlike 2008, the delegates are disunited
Where once the world came together to fight the credit crunch, Trump’s tariffs will set amore divisive test
3 mins
'It might be gutted' – Boots braces for dose of private equity's bitter medicine
The 176-year-old chemist is preparing to change hands again.
6 mins
Oat milk rises to top as Britain's preferred plant-based drink
UK brands are working hard to satisfy growing consumer thirst for non-dairy alternatives,
3 mins
Rosie Brown
The ready-meal boss on keeping the business in the family, helping offenders back to work and why ethical practices pay dividends for society.
4 mins
It's not poverty that breeds this populism. It's wealth
Steve Coogan wants people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.
3 mins
Be a sim-only saver Could you join the phone users shunning bundles?
People are switching to deals with better flexibility and value, and there are a rising number of providers
3 mins
Russia's spies: Uncovering Russia's secret espionage programmes
Exploding weapons factories, assassination attempts and fake news: Vladimir Putin's hybrid war campaign against the West has stepped up several notches since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
1 min
I'm paying someone else's debt on my prepay meter
British Gas is causing me mental breakdown. I am a refugee and was grateful to be given a social housing flat. I duly informed British Gas, which supplies the gas on a prepayment meter and electricity, which was supposed to be billed. They sent me a new code and top-up card and I paid in £60. It turned out the previous tenant had left a £236 debt, presumably on the electricity account. British Gas siphoned off £54 and left me with £6 worth of fuel.
3 mins
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