‘We saw so many bodies that we lost count’: uncovering the hidden horror of El Fasher. Eye-witness reports, satellite images and social media videos record the carnage when RSF fighters seized the famine-stricken capital of Sudan’s North Darfur: https://bit.ly/3JSvdW5

New Zealand halts new puberty blockers for young transgender people reut.rs/3LNVXHJ

‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right? Many thanks @demiguelch.bsky.social and Almudena Carracedo www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Terrible news. If an article had Rachel Cooke's name on it you knew it would be worth reading, whatever the subject. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

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A grim four days in court. My report from the retrial of one of Gisèle Pelicot's rapists who challenged his conviction. The testimony from this and the earlier hearing in Avignon - particularly the appalling videos - can never be unseen or unheard. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

A grim four days in court. My report from the retrial of one of Gisèle Pelicot's rapists who challenged his conviction. The testimony from this and the earlier hearing in Avignon - particularly the appalling videos - can never be unseen or unheard. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Groundhog Day in France. Four days after Sébastien Lecornu resigned as prime minister, Emmanuel Macron has reappointed him. There's no government but under the French constitution Lecornu has until Monday to submit a 2026 budget. www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

Husamettin Dogan’s conviction for the aggravated rape of Gisèle Pelicot while she was under “chemical submission” ie. drugged, upheld by the appeal court. The jury increased his sentence by a year from 9 to 10 years.

Gisèle Pelicot will be back in court on Monday after one of the 51 men convicted last year of raping her appealed. She does not have to attend the new trial but is determined to see the case through, her lawyers say. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Gisèle Pelicot will be back in court on Monday after one of the 51 men convicted last year of raping her appealed. She does not have to attend the new trial but is determined to see the case through, her lawyers say. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Baffling. For 2 years protestors are allowed to march across Britain calling for the killing of a specific group of people. Then everyone is surprised when people of the specific group are killed? Thoughts for the victims' families. May their memory be a blessing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Now how about the companies, recommended by UK.gov website, charging those arriving in the UK - including for funerals and sick family - hundreds of pounds a time for Covid tests similar, if not exactly the same, as those the NHS was sending out for free? Making money out of people's misery.

BREAKING | Company linked to Michelle Mone ordered to repay government £122m over Covid PPE

The argument against a wealth tax is often that it will discourage entrepreneurship and innovation - take a look at this list of France's wealthiest people and count how often the words inherited/heir/heiress come up . . .

How long does a man live? A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us, For as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

‘She is ignorant of how ignorant she is’: JK Rowling responds to Emma Watson rift

Nicolas Sarkozy explainer in the @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

Fabulous story from colleague @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The “Block Everything” takes France by storm. Angry protestors see this as a sequel to the gilets jaunes movement.

‘All the accused men in that court had a double life’: Béatrice Zavarro on defending Dominique Pelicot

Interview with lawyer Béatrice Zavarro who defended sexual predator Dominique Pelicot earning her the nickname "the Devil's Advocate" and has written a book - "Defending the Undefendable" - about the harrowing, life-changing trial last year. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Interview with lawyer Béatrice Zavarro who defended Dominique Pelicot earning her the nickname "the Devil's Advocate" and has written a book about the appalling, life-changing trial last year. In the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Emmanuel Macron names armies minister Sébastien Lecornu as new PM. Lecornu, from conservative right, faces same problem as predecessors, François Bayrou and Michel Barnier, both forced to resign in the last year: how to reduce France's spiralling debt. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

France political crisis: PM François Bayrou loses confidence vote he called. For: 194 Against: 364 Emmanuel Macron now has to find a new PM, his 7th since 2017. Here is earlier Observer Sensemaker of crisis: observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

France: an online revolution. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

To paraphrase Blackadder: 'a few seconds of Andrea Jenkyns singing and somehow death loses its sting.'

France: an online revolution. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Why France is stuck – according to Simon Kuper: on.ft.com/4m4IlnQ

What utter dickheads we are… Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal Farage and his MPs voted it down Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on The mega wealthy win again.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Next time a Tory or Reform politician resigns swiftly after conceding an error they themselves brought to the public’s attention I’ll listen to them braying about Angela Rayner. Until then, sit down.

Next time the UN holds talks with the Taliban or governments do business with them or the England cricket team plays the Afghan team as they did in February...remember this. They wouldn't even pull women out from the rubble. They wouldn't let female doctors help. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets. My bad, that's Michelle Mone.

Streeting suggests hate speech laws should be revised, saying they have had 'unintended consequences' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Sad news, but 27 years is a great innings. Thank you Melvyn Bragg. Learned something new every time. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.

Brief explainer of France’s impending political chaos. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

I don’t know if this qualifies as spilling the 🫖 But release the damn Epstein files already.

It is fair to hold Israel to a higher standard than Hamas terrorists.

Stop now. Enough. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...