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Cuba
Island of peril
A US oil blockade has plunged the Caribbean island into darkness, Thomas Graham reports. The Cuban regime is under pressure to submit to Trump, who is eager to repeat his playbook in Venezuela
Football
Chelsea’s fine
On Monday the club was docked £10.75m for systemic cheating, a punishment so insufficient it’s an insult to every other top-flight team, George Simms writes
Books
The audacity of hope
In a world defined by authoritarianism and climate disaster, a new book by Rebecca Solnit reminds us what true activism can achieve, Kathleen Jamie writes
For today
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The special relationship
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer is getting a powerful new enemy. It could be the making of him
Iran
Ruth Michaelson
The killing of Iran’s security chief marks a turning point
Theatre
Vanessa Thorpe
‘Victoria Wood was a trailblazer, but no one talked about her like that’
Nature
Luke Barley
The five trees that made Britain
Puzzles
100 years of cryptic crosswords
A century ago, The Observer created the cryptic crossword. Some of the puzzle’s biggest fans share what they love about Jonathan Crowther, who has been the paper’s crossword setter for 54 years
Ideas
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Iran
David Aaronovitch
War is not a game of Call of Duty, Mr Trump
Iran
Etgar Keret
Trapped in our bomb shelters, we Israelis shouldn’t let the war define us
Rihanna
Sarah Manavis
Inside the scary world of the ‘anti-fan’
Satire
Lucien Young
