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This is the archive of The Observer up until 21 April 2025. Find new articles of The Observer on observer.co.uk

  • Rosie Brown poses for a photo in front of a bank of wall-mounted catering ovens

    Observer business profile
    ‘Employment’s the best way to stop reoffending’: the boss of ready meals firm Cook on the ‘talent’ in prisons

    The co-founder of the family-run frozen food maker says ethical practices pay dividends on top of financial returns for her business
  • Peter Hanh<br>France, Vernou-sur-Brenne, 29 March 2025 Portrait of Peter Hahn, winemaker at Clos de la Meslerie in the Vouvray region, in his vineyard. France, Vernou-sur-Brenne, 29 mars 2025 Portrait de Peter Hahn, viticulteur au Clos de la Meslerie dans le Vouvray, dans ses vignes. Claude Pauquet / Agence VU

    Self and wellbeing
    How an American businessman lost his job and found himself in an old French vineyard

    One day, life as a finance consultant stopped making sense for Peter Hahn, so he took to organic winegrowing in the Loire instead. He talks to Genevieve Fox
    • Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
      Nigel Slater’s recipe for almond and marzipan biscuits

    • Wellwater by Karen Solie – landscapes in distress captured with raw candour

    • Book of the day
      Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp review – a TikTok Stepford Wives for the Pornhub era

  • A young woman looking in the window at the display of a mobile phone shop

    Be a sim-only saver: could you join the phone users shunning bundles?

    More people are switching to deals with greater flexibility and value, and there are a growing number of providers
  • 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, Show, Madison Square Garden, New York, USA - 28 Aug 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Frank Micelotta/REX/Shutterstock (5848784bl) Britney Spears 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, Show, Madison Square Garden, New York, USA - 28 Aug 2016

    Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert review – how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves

    The Pulitzer-nominated journalist recounts how modern misogyny has been shaped by a mass culture attuned to male desire and all-pervasive pornography
    • Your problems, with Anna Tims
      I’ve just been housed. Now I’m paying someone else’s debt on my prepay meter

    • Lucy Shuker: ‘I took up the sport to find me. It wasn’t to be a Paralympian’

    • Book of the day
      Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something

  • A close-up of Russian spy Andrei Bezrukov, AKA Don Heathfield.

    The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight

  • Pedro Pascal as Clint in Freaky Tales.

    Freaky Tales review – fun, scuzzy tribute to the exploitation flick

  • Bergamot, one of the more unusual fruits finding favour in the UK

    From kumquats to lime caviar: UK foodies embrace a whole new world of citrus

  • San Jose, USA. 18th Mar, 2025. Jensen Huang, head of the chip company Nvidia, holds the company's graphics cards at the developer conference GTC. (NEW - for technical reasons) Credit: Andrej Sokolow/dpa/Alamy Live News<br>3A49XE1 San Jose, USA. 18th Mar, 2025. Jensen Huang, head of the chip company Nvidia, holds the company's graphics cards at the developer conference GTC. (NEW - for technical reasons) Credit: Andrej Sokolow/dpa/Alamy Live News

    The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted microchip – review

  • Delusions of Paradise by Maiwand Banayee review – a compelling rejection of fundamentalism

  • ‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

  • ‘Performing is not some gigantic thing – it’s just me breathing’: Obongjayar on the journey from shyness to stardom

  • The end of WeightWatchers? How the dieting club lost out to slimming drugs

  • Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards review – night owls of all feathers

  • Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great

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