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Newpoll shows Harris four points ahead of Trump in three key swing states
Crucial states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan are now leaning Democratic, according to NYT/Siena poll
Riots will set back efforts to rebuild Britain’s broken justice system, minister warns
Howwraparound shades won the gold medal for fashion at the Paris Olympics
‘It’s OK, everyone else is doing it’: how do we deal with role violence on social media played in UK riots?
It’s easy to blame viral videos – and far harder to change the culture in which they thrive
Startling genome discovery in butterfly project reveals impact of climate change in Europe
Project to study all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths finds ‘two species in the act of being created from one’
‘We’re too frightened to talk about immigration,’ warns top Labour party veteran
‘Sometimes you really have to let go’: can Olympians embrace retirement?
UKministers warned to prepare for tough decisions on spending
‘People just like rioting’: why swift justice may blur real motivations behind UK rampage
Macron is hugging France’s heroes as though he dare not let the Olympics go
Georgia Bell leads rush of medals as Team GB enjoy super Saturday
TopTories fuelled riots with ‘divisive language’ on immigration, say party grandees
Video doorbells, CCTV, facial recognition: how the police tracked UK rioters
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Nowater, no power, hordes of birds: who will buy San Francisco’s $25m private island?
Red Rock Island, a 5.8-acre hunk of stone with a colorful history, is an outlier in the luxury market. We joined the realtor tasked with finding a buyer
Oleg Orlov: the veteran dissident who accepted jail to ‘show there is resistance inside Russia’
Israel strikes on Gaza school site kill at least 80, Palestinian officials say
DJsjoin Ravers for Palestine boycott of top Berlin techno club Berghain
‘We’re freed, but it doesn’t end here’: Bangladeshis mix hope with vigilance after PM flees
Russia claims to have thwarted Ukraine’s advance in Kursk
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Democrats’ joy is unconfined as Harris and Walz take upbeat message on tour
The new presidential ticket is accentuating the positive on a swing through battleground states but opinions differ on whether they can shift the mood in rural America
‘It’s going to be hair-raising’: high-risk slingshot move will send robot craft to Jupiter
Wasthe shooting of a nine-year-old girl in Hackney linked to a Europe-wide battle between rival drug gangs?
From brats to tradwives: why do we keep putting women into subcultures?
Hamas’s leader is dead, Iran vows revenge: can anything stop all-out war in the Middle East?
Isthe dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’
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Awave of optimism is sweeping the Democrats – are the good times really about to roll again?
Michael Cohen
Theroots of the UK’s unrest lie in the warping of genuine working-class grievances
Kenan Malik
Women – don’t get larger, don’t get older, don’t have fun, don’t dare to wear a bikini
Barbara Ellen
Extremism in all its forms has been ignored for too long by British politicians
Sara Khan
There’s big money in IVF – but not for the women who hand over their eggs
Catherine Bennett
Despite appearances, Britons are more tolerant than ever
Torsten Bell
There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism
David Olusoga
Chris Riddell on Elon Musk as a Bond villain – cartoon
Newwars, old wars, famine, panic everywhere. So much for a quiet August
Simon Tisdall
Hurling could be a global phenomenon if it weren’t such an unexportable sport
Rowan Moore
Apowerful man given free rein and indulged, Huw Edwards is proof the BBC hasn’t changed
Jane Martinson
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Editorials & Letters
TheObserver view on the UK riots: political neglect lies behind our fractured communities
Doctors should push back against the BMA’s opposition to Cass review
I am appalled that part of the leadership of our profession has rejected the conclusions of the report into gender identity services
Forthe record
Donald Trump | John McLusky | Edinburgh international festival
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‘I’ve met seven housing ministers, one of them twice’: the head of Homes England on the battle to build
Acheque from Equiniti to pay my late husband’s care home fees got lost in post
‘They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable’
Opodo cancelled our ‘confirmed’ flight home from Japan
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Premier League 2024-25 fan previews, part two: Leicester to Wolves
Premier League 2024-25 fan previews, part one: Arsenal to Ipswich
Fans have their say on key players, wonderkids and weak links – and make predictions for the season ahead
WasFA’s appointment of Lee Carsley down to political cunning or lack of options?
Jonathan Wilson
From Biles to Yee and Bol: 10 great moments at the Paris Olympics
Gender wars and Gazprom vol-au-vents: how boxing ended up in a mess
Olympics diary: wrestling warhorses and weightlifting wonders in Paris
Steph Curry shows otherworldly skills as USA beat France for basketball gold
‘Gutted but proud’ Caden Cunningham kicks his way to taekwondo silver
Hamish Kerr wins dramatic high jump gold after sudden death round
Georgia Bell completes epic journey from parkruns to 1500m Olympic bronze
Team GB win relay bronzes but powerless to stop USA and Benjamin
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Reviews
Babes review – Pamela Adlon’s caustically funny pregnancy comedy
Beabadoobee: This Is How Tomorrow Moves review – a nostalgic gen Z gem
Theweek in theatre: The Years; Pericles – review
Theweek in TV: Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?; A Storm Foretold; Paris Olympics; Slip – review
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Alicia Vikander: ‘If you’re depicting an abusive relationship, you can’t shy away’
The Oscar-winning Swedish star on keeping her head as Henry VIII’s last wife in a no-holds-barred reimagining of the Tudor court, the rise of AI – and why filming feels like first love
Black Arsenal: how the club and its players set the pace for integration and ‘natural multiculturalism’
Beautiful, bruising and complex: what I’ve learned about female friendship
Britain burns while liberals check facts
Stewart Lee
Fusion power might be 30 years away but we will reap its benefits well before
‘Actors are strange animals’: Jack Lowden of Slow Horses on playing an alcoholic and working with his new wife, Saoirse Ronan
Comedian Phil Wang: ‘The Taskmaster bulge issue only became apparent too late’
Black Arsenal: how the London club earned its place in Black British culture
Thebig picture: sun worship in Sicily with Pia Riverola
Sarah Manguso: ‘I seem to have hit on a cultural sore spot’
What opposition to delivery drones shows about big tech’s disrespect for democracy
John Naughton
Onmy radar: Ade Adepitan’s cultural highights
Hello, goodbye: the rise and decline of the celebrity video-greeting app Cameo
Oneto watch: Dua Saleh
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‘I see the world for what it is’: actor Naomi Ackie’s rage-fuelled rising star
Starring as Whitney Houston catapulted Naomi Ackie to fame – and drove her to exhaustion. She tells Hayley Campbell about channelling anger, coping with grief, and why she’s drawn to the dark side of life
Home medical tests are on the rise – but do they really work?
‘The young offenders system worked for me’: the ex-convict turned chef
Mysister buys posh food, but most of it ends up in the bin
Nigel Slater’s recipe for courgettes, lemon and ricotta
Should artists be terrified of AI replacing them?
10of Europe’s best sculpture parks and open-air galleries
Nigel Slater’s recipes for summer green vegetable curry and summer fruits in raspberry and elderflower
Finding someone to look after our toddler all day and night is a big ask
Séamas O’Reilly
Notes on chocolate: a seven-inch chocolate single
Atlast things seem to be looking up…
Eva Wiseman
Remedies for uneven skin tone: 10 of the best
Community, chores and colour – the best of summer on an allotment
Atoast to the remarkable new ‘Piwi’ grape varieties
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The20 best easy summer salad recipes
From Nigella Lawson’s lemony prawns and Nigel Slater’s noodles with pickled ginger to classics such as potato and pasta salads, these dishes are pure summer
Refreshing, thirst-quenching, distinctive: 20 best wines for the summer
Nigel Slater’s recipes for salads to share
Mysearch for the perfect veg – from my greenhouse to the Cotswolds and even into orbit
Welcome to July’s Observer Food Monthly
Baked bass, saffron rice, cherry fool – Nathan Outlaw’s Cornish summer recipes
Asma Khan: ‘Food is deeply political. Who eats and who doesn’t? Who owns the land?’
Angela Hartnett’s secret ingredient – peperoncino
Summer picnic taste test: ice-creams, gelato, cones and sorbets
Summer picnic taste test: rosés, cremants and pet nats
Summer picnic taste test: quiche, olives, sausage rolls and more
This changeable weather is playing havoc with my appetite, so I’m eating summer-winter food
Rachel Cooke
Comedian Fern Brady: ‘I went to get hypnotised out of eating bread’
Iknow how to improve the Olympics. First up, the burger-stacking contest
Jay Rayner
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