Children from Gaza who need surgery have been taken to Jordan and Lebanon, but they can’t get surgery because they’re too malnourished to heal afterwards. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Story this evening in @theobserveruk.bsky.social with @catneilan.bsky.social which Keir Starmer has been good enough to confirm observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Some important research on ovarian cancer here from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Entertainment or emergency? Global leaders heed Attenborough’s warning Naturalist David Attenborough’s film Ocean highlighted the destructive fishing practice of bottom trawling, which involves dragging the seabed with heavy chains. @rachelsylvester.bsky.social bit.ly/3FOI1un

The 2025 UN Ocean Conference begins today. At The Observer, we’ve been examining the state of our oceans — from illegal fishing by foreign fleets to destruction within the UK’s marine protected areas. Here’s a round-up of our reporting so far 🧵 bit.ly/43Ral7r

More than 3,000 species are caught by bottom trawlers and at least 10% are critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable, including hawksbill turtle and Patagonian seahorse, reveals new research. In today's Observer.

With brutal wars raging in Gaza, Sudan & Ukraine, the world’s war crimes court is needed more than ever — but it’s facing an existential crisis. Karim Khan KC, Chief Prosecutor at the ICC, faces serious allegations of sexual misconduct. 🧵 @chloehadj.bsky.social bit.ly/43LIAgs

The train on platform 1 is now Great and British. But you’ll be lucky if it’s on time. Passengers on the first rail company to be nationalised by Labour share hopes and fears as a new era chugs in.

And so the thing @stephenkb.bsky.social and others predicted had to happen under Labour, sooner or later, has happened, sooner observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Keir Starmer backs end of two child benefit cap and tells Treasury to find the money - my story for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

COYS!

In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright. The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them. 🧵 1/2

Why on earth are people objecting to this? They need a good talking to.

Virginia Giuffre’s death is going to another touchstone for the Maga right, I’m sad to say. Early details in this piece with @phoebeivy.bsky.social and in the paper too - go and buy one! observer.co.uk/news/interna...

"I’m as interested in an artificial voice as I am in an artificial author, which is to say not at all." David Sedaris: After I’ve long gone, will my niece sell me out to AI? Read his piece here:

What made the EHRC decide to issue this guidance late on a Friday the day before the Pope’s funeral? #JoMoore www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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Pensioner with severe learning disabilities could face eviction over care costs dispute - Patrick Butler showing the way again. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Soppy, sentimental and self-indulgent thread: today is the last time the Observer is published by the Guardian Media Group and from Tuesday will be under the auspices of Tortoise Media. It's both a devastatingly sad day and one of hope for the future.

Thank you to @jamestapper.bsky.social for covering this concerning trend. The DfE simply must put better safeguards to ensure PVI providers are better protected in partnerships with schools, and also make sure that school nursery funding is focused on areas where there is a genuine need for places.

and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech

Advertising is the low background mental hum that you don’t pay much attention to. You might even deliberately try not to think about it when you see it. So when there’s more of it around, who’s going to notice? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Who says there's no good news around?

Why does Newsnight invite this pointless blowhard Gorka on its show? He says nothing worth listening to.

The population of the Heard and McDonald Islands is literally zero (0) people

The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.

New Bill Defines Foxes as Protected Class of Hen — Farmyard overseers mandated; empowered to eliminate “safe spaces,” protect “vulpine values” — Republican lawmakers hail “a much-needed step towards restoring free speech in the coop” — Centrist pundits applaud farm’s return to “telos of succulence”

"The SRA spent two years ‘investigating’ how Prigozhin tried to use British law to silence a journalist. Astonishingly, in a four page assessment now seen by this newsletter, the regulator finally ruled that Discreet Law “acted appropriately” in representing the sanctioned Wagner leader"

Just in case you haven’t seen this yet: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Need to print this out and frame it near my desk

A group is absent from the narrative re why people are not in work. 1 in 4 adults of working age in England & Wales has a criminal record, many for minor crimes committed decades ago. Having a record is a huge barrier to getting jobs, or even applying & a driver to ill health www.fairchecks.org.uk

Liz Kendall says that the number of people on PIP will double from 2m to 4.3m but that leaves out the point that PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance, but people still get it. DLA claims are reducing every year. Right now, PIP and DLA add up to 4.8m people.

This aged so well that we had to check whether it was genuine, and it is……

In other news, Steve Duda and Xfer have just released Serum 2.

Great piece - too often people are ignored in favour of spreadsheet when there’s a discussion about benefits.

Narrator: a 12-person jury in Dublin found McGregor guilty of sexual assault in a civil case brought by a woman who accused him of raping her at a Dublin hotel in December 2018.

Exclusive: The government is cutting all funding from the Islamophobia reporting service Tell Mama, leaving it facing closure weeks after revealing a record number of anti-Muslim hate incidents in Britain www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

This poll is WILD www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

No spoilers, but the escalation at 1.40 is jaw dropping.

Gosh - how surprising. www.theguardian.com/education/20...