News, culture and style

Keir Starmer

Death by a thousand cuts

The prime minister has avoided an ethics probe into the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. But the testimony of his former aide Morgan McSweeney failed to dispel the notion that he made the final decision – and his leadership rivals are closing in

By Catherine Neilan

Football

The Munich machine

Bayern’s shift from picking off Bundesliga rivals’ talent to offering Premier League stars an off-ramp has solidified its place as a European giant, Rory Smith writes

Health

Portrait of a double mastectomy

When she picked up a friend from hospital, Eva Wiseman began wondering about all the complex decisions, relationships, pains and magical thinking that come with surgery. How do we know when we are fine? Can we ever?

Books

A very Irish whodunnit

With her 10th novel, The Keeper, crime writer Tana French proves herself to be a great chronicler of her nation, Stephanie Merritt writes

News in brief

Business

Tech billionaires go to war in landmark OpenAI trial

Religion

Progressive rabbis warn of Israel’s ‘existential threat’ to Judaism

Fossil fuels

BP enjoys bumper profits in oil trading boom

Architecture

Endangered Victorian buildings capture decay of city centres

For today

Maga

Hugh Tomlinson

Tucker Carlson leads Maga rebellion against Trump over Iran war

In pictures: Coventry return to the Premier League after 25 years

Football

Andrew Butler

In pictures: Coventry return to the Premier League after 25 years

Books

Killian Fox

David Keenan: ‘I want my books to be horny’

In the neighbourhood: Nordvest, Copenhagen

Travel

Hannah Rees-Middleton

In the neighbourhood: Nordvest, Copenhagen

To catch an art thief

A £20m Lucian Freud painting disappeared from a Berlin gallery almost 40 years ago and the police have been investigating ever since. Finally, after years of dead ends, a prime suspect has emerged

By Stephen Smith

Listen

Freud’s missing Bacon

Listen

Freud’s missing Bacon

O, The Observer Magazine

What I’ve learned in 50 years of marriage

Relationships

Ian Martin

What I’ve learned in 50 years of marriage

Jessie Cave on her journey from Harry Potter to OnlyFans

Brushes with fame

Eva Wiseman

Jessie Cave on her journey from Harry Potter to OnlyFans

Fashion

Helen Seamons

Ties that earn their stripes

On a roll: at home with the Bao restaurant founders Erchen Chang and Shing Tat Chung

Restaurants

Matt Alagiah

On a roll: at home with the Bao restaurant founders Erchen Chang and Shing Tat Chung

Interview

Class acts

There’s really nothing like a Dame. For the launch issue of O, The Observer Magazine, five great Dames of the stage – Sheila Hancock, Helen Mirren, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emma Thompson and Harriet Walter – share the most transformative moments of their careers