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Andrew Anthony
Andrew Anthony has been writing for the Observer since 1993 and for the Guardian since 1990. He is the author of On Penalties, published by Yellow Jersey Press and The Fallout, published by Jonathan Cape
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Last week, the media operator and Huffington Post co-founder joined the board of the taxi giant. So how will the huge online news site reconcile this apparent conflict of interests?
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This week, an exhibition opens in London that honours the man whose charm, wit and courage, not to mention astonishing boxing skills, made him the greatest sportsman of the 20th century
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The author and playwright on the 2011 riots, the lure of Isis and finally adjusting to her home in England
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This involving study attempts to explain what turned a seemingly ordinary London teenager into an Isis psychopath
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Melancholy pervaded the air in Mongolia, and Robert Harris revealed a soft spot for Amy Winehouse and Michael Foot
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No one fashions drama out of the everyday quite like the writer of Happy Valley, which returns to BBC1 this week. But don’t expect the Bafta winner to shy away from showing people at their worst
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Keiron Pim’s account of swinging London’s notorious fabulist, a man who befriended rock stars and gangsters, is absorbing and revealing
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Universities are meant to be guardians of robust debate. Yet as campuses become ‘safe spaces’, the right of students not to be offended is taking priority
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Eurosceptics will have cheered at his disdain for the EU last week. Others will be pleased that the master craftsman who ‘retired’ a couple of decades ago excels in a new film and has more in train
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Thirty years after he smashed the Fleet Street print unions, the media tycoon can still surprise us all. And yet, according to his biographer, Murdoch has always craved beautiful, strong women
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In revisiting the landmark series Civilisation, presenters Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama must face the challenge of following some of the most celebrated television of all time
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Tyson Fury, Leicester City and Japan’s rugby union side all produced astonishing successes while even England’s cricket team discovered how to entertain
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After another thrilling victory Leicester lead the Premier League. And this multicultural city is revelling in the moment
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Taxi app Uber is allowing customers to save cash and cut traffic by sharing rides with strangers – a system already working in New York and Paris. We sent our writer on a test
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Is it acceptable for a BBC news reporter or a judge to cry while doing their job?
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With the US convulsed by contemporary incidents of racist police brutality, a new documentary charts the rise of the Black Panthers.
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The New Review Q&A; Katherine Parkinson: ‘Comedy is instinctive – you don’t have to do any homework’
The actor talks sitcoms, clay modelling – and her knack of making a mess in the kitchen
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Six weeks on from resigning, and with a snap election just announced, what now for the bad boy of anti-capitalism?
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Syriza leader under fire from left before electoral campaign gets under way
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England’s rugby union captain, Chris Robshaw, will put his body on the line in next month’s World Cup. He talks to Andrew Anthony about the pressures of the job – and his other life as a barista
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Two outstanding works of journalism bookmark that 70-year period: John Hersey’s 1946 article, which reminds us of the horror of the bombing; and Eric Schlosser’s terrifying account of a break-in at a US weapons plant in 2012 – a warning, he says, about our current complacency
Has the age of quantum computing arrived?