Ideas
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Melanie Reid
Euphemisms for death just kill me
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
The chancellor is stuck between a rock and a hard place
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Simon Barnes
My week as an alpha male wolf
Wed 29 Oct 2025
Shuab Gamote
Politics has left gen Z screaming into the void
Mon 27 Oct 2025
Lucien Young
Dear Keir: How do I keep my kids on the straight and narrow?
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Steve Biddulph
Israel will have to address its self-inflicted PTSD
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Erica Wagner
The Bruce Springsteen biopic will be blinded by his light
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
Lucy Powell has a resonant message. The PM should listen
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Marie Le Conte
Anyone for padel? No, I hadn’t heard of it either
Wed 15 Oct 2025
Bernard Gray
Former Nato chief warns Russia is at war with UK
Tue 14 Oct 2025
George Simms
Luke Littler the great entertainer
Tue 14 Oct 2025
Martha Gill
In our national parks sewage flows
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Kenan Malik
Illiberalism won’t help the working class
Sun 5 Oct 2025
Giles Whittell
Harry Kane’s speciality: not winning for England
Fri 5 Sept 2025
Barbara Ellen
America, don’t diss our repressed British blokes. That’s our job
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Martha Gill
Britain is being left behind the cancer treatment revolution
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
Sir Keir can refresh his No 10 crew but he still needs to steer the ship
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Will Hutton
Be confident that a new age of Enlightenment is possible
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Kenan Malik
Modern racism has become loud and proud
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Daniel Hahn
AI won’t replace us human literary translators just yet
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Sara Khan
The government has not learned from the horror of 7/7
Wed 2 Jul 2025
Kate Maltby
History’s women have more to tell us than their fashion choices
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Orlando Whitfield
The art market: the perfect forum to wash filthy fortunes clean
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Kenan Malik
British values aren’t colour-coded
Sun 8 Jun 2025
Martha Gill
There is a way to solve the small boats crisis
Sun 8 Jun 2025
John Naughton
The networker: Universities must learn to embrace AI
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Eva Wiseman
Eva Wiseman: the loss of life's rough edges
Sat 7 Jun 2025
David Mitchell
David Mitchell: the oddest scrap in British politics
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Marley Morris
‘We’re in two minds on migration. Let’s find a way to strike a balance’
Sun 1 Jun 2025
Tanya Gold
Elon Musk's term was a bad drug dream
Sun 1 Jun 2025
The Observer leader
The moron premium
Sun 1 Jun 2025
Kenan Malik
The thinker who saw the flaws in liberalism
Sun 1 Jun 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
Andrew Rawnsley: the chancellor's lean spending review
Sun 1 Jun 2025
Rachel Cooke
Greggs is worth waxing lyrical about: it's on a roll
Sun 1 Jun 2025
Philip Collins
‘It’s time to defend free speech against its worst advocates’
Sun 1 Jun 2025
David Blunkett
‘We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world’
Sat 31 May 2025
Michael Rosen
Ffs, that TACO is hard to swallow for we acronym klutzes
Sat 31 May 2025
Philip Collins
Sexual harassment is rife, but most think it’s not worth reporting
Thu 29 May 2025
David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch: the assassins who think murder is protest
Sun 25 May 2025
Kenan Malik
We’re becoming strangers – but not just because of immigration
Sun 18 May 2025
Phil Collins
Reform wins in the new politics of resentment
Fri 9 May 2025
Martha Gill
Martha Gill: how ketamine became gen Z’s drug of choice
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Kenan Malik
Trans rights: ‘MPs are outsourcing their morals’
Sun 27 Apr 2025
‘Do we need a phone ban in schools? Just ask the children’
Sat 26 Apr 2025
Rhik Samadder
The case for… Instant coffee
Fri 25 Apr 2025
