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From Tour de France Femmes podiums to becoming the first “million-euro” athlete in women’s cycling, @demivollering continues to redefine the sport.

The 2023 Tour winner and back-to-back Vuelta Feminina champion heads into this year’s Giro d’Italia chasing a career Grand Slam and once again starts as the rider to beat.

Ahead of the Giro Women next Saturday, the Dutch star opens up on mental health, menstruation, and eating disorders in an exclusive interview with Jeremy Whittle.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by Billy Ceusters/Getty, Jasper Jacobs/AFP

From Tour de France Femmes podiums to becoming the first “million-euro” athlete in women’s cycling, @demivollering continues to redefine the sport.

The 2023 Tour winner and back-to-back Vuelta Feminina champion heads into this year’s Giro d’Italia chasing a career Grand Slam and once again starts as the rider to beat.

Ahead of the Giro Women next Saturday, the Dutch star opens up on mental health, menstruation, and eating disorders in an exclusive interview with Jeremy Whittle.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by Billy Ceusters/Getty, Jasper Jacobs/AFP

From Tour de France Femmes podiums to becoming the first “million-euro” athlete in women’s cycling, @demivollering continues to redefine the sport.

The 2023 Tour winner and back-to-back Vuelta Feminina champion heads into this year’s Giro d’Italia chasing a career Grand Slam and once again starts as the rider to beat.

Ahead of the Giro Women next Saturday, the Dutch star opens up on mental health, menstruation, and eating disorders in an exclusive interview with Jeremy Whittle.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by Billy Ceusters/Getty, Jasper Jacobs/AFP

From Tour de France Femmes podiums to becoming the first “million-euro” athlete in women’s cycling, @demivollering continues to redefine the sport.

The 2023 Tour winner and back-to-back Vuelta Feminina champion heads into this year’s Giro d’Italia chasing a career Grand Slam and once again starts as the rider to beat.

Ahead of the Giro Women next Saturday, the Dutch star opens up on mental health, menstruation, and eating disorders in an exclusive interview with Jeremy Whittle.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by Billy Ceusters/Getty, Jasper Jacobs/AFP

From Tour de France Femmes podiums to becoming the first “million-euro” athlete in women’s cycling, @demivollering continues to redefine the sport.

The 2023 Tour winner and back-to-back Vuelta Feminina champion heads into this year’s Giro d’Italia chasing a career Grand Slam and once again starts as the rider to beat.

Ahead of the Giro Women next Saturday, the Dutch star opens up on mental health, menstruation, and eating disorders in an exclusive interview with Jeremy Whittle.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by Billy Ceusters/Getty, Jasper Jacobs/AFP

From Tour de France Femmes podiums to becoming the first “million-euro” athlete in women’s cycling, @demivollering continues to redefine the sport.

The 2023 Tour winner and back-to-back Vuelta Feminina champion heads into this year’s Giro d’Italia chasing a career Grand Slam and once again starts as the rider to beat.

Ahead of the Giro Women next Saturday, the Dutch star opens up on mental health, menstruation, and eating disorders in an exclusive interview with Jeremy Whittle.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by Billy Ceusters/Getty, Jasper Jacobs/AFP

Why has Married at First Sight UK been pulled off air?

Married at First Sight UK has been pulled off air after allegations of rape during filming were made by former participants. What does this tell us about safeguarding in reality TV? Why might Rachel Reeves’s newly announced cuts on food tariffs negatively affect our health? And why has a football club admitted to spying?

In today’s episode of The News Meeting host Jeevan Vasager is joined by The Observer’s James Tapper, Madeleine Parr and Andrew Butler as they battle it out and pitch the top stories of the day.

Note: This episode contains mentions of sexual violence and suicide.

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On Tuesday night “Taiwan Travelogue”, by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, won the 2026 International Booker prize.

The metatextual, footnote-filled tale, which was first published in Taiwan in 2020 in Mandarin, is set in 1938 and follows a young Japanese novelist who travels to Taiwan, then under Japanese rule. There she meets an interpreter who introduces her to the island’s culinary delights as she grapples with the tensions between colonised and coloniser.

Following their win, they sat down with @theobserveruk’s Ellen Peirson-Hagger to discuss queerness, translation and Taiwan’s future.

Read the full interview at our link in bio.

Photography by @sophiaevansphoto for The Observer

On Tuesday night “Taiwan Travelogue”, by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, won the 2026 International Booker prize.

The metatextual, footnote-filled tale, which was first published in Taiwan in 2020 in Mandarin, is set in 1938 and follows a young Japanese novelist who travels to Taiwan, then under Japanese rule. There she meets an interpreter who introduces her to the island’s culinary delights as she grapples with the tensions between colonised and coloniser.

Following their win, they sat down with @theobserveruk’s Ellen Peirson-Hagger to discuss queerness, translation and Taiwan’s future.

Read the full interview at our link in bio.

Photography by @sophiaevansphoto for The Observer

On Tuesday night “Taiwan Travelogue”, by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, won the 2026 International Booker prize.

The metatextual, footnote-filled tale, which was first published in Taiwan in 2020 in Mandarin, is set in 1938 and follows a young Japanese novelist who travels to Taiwan, then under Japanese rule. There she meets an interpreter who introduces her to the island’s culinary delights as she grapples with the tensions between colonised and coloniser.

Following their win, they sat down with @theobserveruk’s Ellen Peirson-Hagger to discuss queerness, translation and Taiwan’s future.

Read the full interview at our link in bio.

Photography by @sophiaevansphoto for The Observer

On Tuesday night “Taiwan Travelogue”, by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, won the 2026 International Booker prize.

The metatextual, footnote-filled tale, which was first published in Taiwan in 2020 in Mandarin, is set in 1938 and follows a young Japanese novelist who travels to Taiwan, then under Japanese rule. There she meets an interpreter who introduces her to the island’s culinary delights as she grapples with the tensions between colonised and coloniser.

Following their win, they sat down with @theobserveruk’s Ellen Peirson-Hagger to discuss queerness, translation and Taiwan’s future.

Read the full interview at our link in bio.

Photography by @sophiaevansphoto for The Observer

I wrote about the rise of AI scams targeting authors, whether a winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize was composed by a bot, what the hell is going on at Granta and [endless screaming] 😱😱😱 Link, sigh, in bio.

I wrote about the rise of AI scams targeting authors, whether a winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize was composed by a bot, what the hell is going on at Granta and [endless screaming] 😱😱😱 Link, sigh, in bio.

From Harry Potter to hair content on OnlyFans

@jessiecave makes more money plaiting her hair for fetishists online than she ever did from her role in the film franchise.

None of her videos are explicit, but they do appeal to people who fetishise hair. After 19 years in the acting industry and the birth of her fourth child, Cave’s financial situation changed and she turned her hair into something of a small business.

‘For so long, I’ve been this mother figure. For me to then go and do something which is quite risqué, it has been fun to make people think differently of me,’ says Cave.

Read the full interview with @evawiseman at the link in bio

Videography by Alice Anderson

After a long 22 years, #Arsenal have finally won the Premier League.

@rorysmith82 reflects how manager Mikel Arteta’s set-pieces, structure, and relentless organisation have made his side the new benchmark for coaching modern football teams.

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After a long 22 years, #Arsenal have finally won the Premier League.

@rorysmith82 reflects how manager Mikel Arteta’s set-pieces, structure, and relentless organisation have made his side the new benchmark for coaching modern football teams.

Comment ARTETA and we'll DM you the article.

For decades, doping has operated in the shadows of elite sport. Now, it’s stepping into the spotlight.

This Sunday, a handpicked group of drug-enhanced athletes will compete in the Nevada desert at #TheEnhancedGames — an event openly embracing substances banned under anti-doping rules, including testosterone, human growth hormone and steroids.

Organisers say it’s a bold experiment in human enhancement, longevity and scientific progress. Critics say it challenges the very meaning of fair competition.

So: is this the future of sport?

On this week’s episode of #SlowNewscast, Jeremy Whittle and Chris Marshall-Bell investigate the rise of the Enhanced Games, and ask what happens when elite sport stops pretending enhancement doesn’t exist.

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Reporters: Jeremy Whittle and Chris Marshall-Bell
Producer: Jonathan Lewis
Artwork: @blythe.ws
Sound Design: Dominic Delargy
Editor: Jasper Corbett

Missed a session at #TruthTellers 2026, or want to hear it again?

A selection of this year’s panels and interviews is now live as a podcast series, brought to you by @theobserveruk

We’re proud to have been supported by The Observer, and previously Tortoise Media, from the very beginning.

Big conversations, sharp insights, and the voices shaping investigative journalism, all in one place.

Search Truth Tellers and listen wherever you get your podcasts, also at the link in bio 🎧

#SirHarrySummit #TruthTellers

Missed a session at #TruthTellers 2026, or want to hear it again?

A selection of this year’s panels and interviews is now live as a podcast series, brought to you by @theobserveruk

We’re proud to have been supported by The Observer, and previously Tortoise Media, from the very beginning.

Big conversations, sharp insights, and the voices shaping investigative journalism, all in one place.

Search Truth Tellers and listen wherever you get your podcasts, also at the link in bio 🎧

#SirHarrySummit #TruthTellers

Missed a session at #TruthTellers 2026, or want to hear it again?

A selection of this year’s panels and interviews is now live as a podcast series, brought to you by @theobserveruk

We’re proud to have been supported by The Observer, and previously Tortoise Media, from the very beginning.

Big conversations, sharp insights, and the voices shaping investigative journalism, all in one place.

Search Truth Tellers and listen wherever you get your podcasts, also at the link in bio 🎧

#SirHarrySummit #TruthTellers

Missed a session at #TruthTellers 2026, or want to hear it again?

A selection of this year’s panels and interviews is now live as a podcast series, brought to you by @theobserveruk

We’re proud to have been supported by The Observer, and previously Tortoise Media, from the very beginning.

Big conversations, sharp insights, and the voices shaping investigative journalism, all in one place.

Search Truth Tellers and listen wherever you get your podcasts, also at the link in bio 🎧

#SirHarrySummit #TruthTellers

Missed a session at #TruthTellers 2026, or want to hear it again?

A selection of this year’s panels and interviews is now live as a podcast series, brought to you by @theobserveruk

We’re proud to have been supported by The Observer, and previously Tortoise Media, from the very beginning.

Big conversations, sharp insights, and the voices shaping investigative journalism, all in one place.

Search Truth Tellers and listen wherever you get your podcasts, also at the link in bio 🎧

#SirHarrySummit #TruthTellers

Inside London’s most colourful shop L Cornelissen & Son has supplied raw pigments to artists and artisans for almost 170 years “What makes using raw pigments magical are two things,” says the shop’s owner of 50 years, Nicholas Walt, a genial, softly spoken man now 83. “You can make your own colours at considerably less cost than buying tubes. And then there’s the sheer pleasure of making colour.”

Read more from the Observer New Review's new series In Real Life, home to observations and scenes from the world beyond your phone screen.

Video by @finnblythe

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour