7+ hour, 52+ min ago   (408+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 It used to be the case in Britain that fruit went beside a sandwich, not in it. Jam was just about OK – or, if you felt daring and patriotic, dried apricots in coronation chicken. But the idea of…...

8+ hour, 3+ min ago   (353+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 For a decade, the car dealership on Lombard Road in Battersea, south London, sold vehicles made by Jaguar Land Rover. No longer. The showroom, owned by the Lookers group, has been refitted as a flagship store for Omoda…...

8+ hour, 3+ min ago   (804+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Funding is slow, sales are slumping and there’s a political backlash – it’s the worst possible time to be in the alternative protein business. There is one ray of sunshine, though: Brexit. Owen Ensor, chief executive of Meatly, a…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (263+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 The past is a foreign country, which is how I feel about my brain when I remember the endless health diagnoses I gave myself during the pandemic. I ordered home test after home test, queued outside the doctor’s…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (413+ words) Where The Light Gets In: Sam Buckley’s culinary creative force observer.co.uk Monday 7 September 2026 Where The Light Gets In: Sam Buckley’s culinary creative force Stockport’s pioneering restaurateur is celebrating a decade of culinary innovation and sustainability, proving that good…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (91+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 “My desire to find clear and definite answers to big questions, or to find someone who leads a clear and definite life, has softened,” says Howell, reflecting on the project. “I don’t believe such clarity exists and, actually,…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (787+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 Many of the images are of Ben-Baruch cooking healthy, natural food, sometimes in a pot inherited from her Uzbek grandmother, accompanied by exhortations to her 49,000 followers to follow the detailed recipes she shares with them. According to the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (324+ words) Friday 4 September 2026 The Southbank Centre’s Literature & Spoken Word programme spotlights the very best established and emerging literary talent. On the 75th anniversary of the pioneering Festival of Britain, the Southbank Centre continues to place the next generation of writers and thinkers…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (47+ words) Wednesday 2 September 2026 What are your thoughts on this? Email us at [email protected] At home with a Barbican designer’s modernist vision Erdem: fashion’s romantic rebel Rachel Sylvester on politics The Observer's political editor shares her exclusive insight into what's happening in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (527+ words) Wednesday 2 September 2026 His UK-based company, Architourian, does deep dives into places with a rich cultural heritage. Until recently the focus was India, a country that Macready, 61, grew to know when working on a hotel project in the hills above Chandigarh,…...