the observer
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Theresa May urged to boost funding or ration care to head off escalating cash crisis and avoid ‘1990s-style decline’
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Nottingham police experiment draws national interest after force launched more than 20 investigations in July and August
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New study reveals that 77% of British voters now see themselves as centrist or right of centre – and that only 20% believe Jeremy Corbyn shares their position
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Many of the 3,000 refugee children in Greece are housed in ‘deplorable’ conditions with poor food and few facilities. They are the lucky ones
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NSA whistleblower says Moscow’s online monitoring of citizens is unnecessary, costly and corrosive of rights
opinion
features
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Glitz and glamour are so passé. ‘Inclusion’ is the latest London Fashion Week trend
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Rudy Kurniawan amassed a vast fortune trading in rare wines. Trouble is, he was bottling them himself. Ed Cumming reports on a vintage swindle
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The co-creator of The Fast Show, Charlie Higson, has donated his archive of scripts, sketches and memorabilia to the University of East Anglia, where he met Paul Whitehouse and where the popular and influential series was conceived
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After a two-year journey that has shaped our understanding of the solar system, the orbiter is to be crashed into Comet 67P
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A golden opportunity to chat with a star of the silver screen… But sadly Rebecca Chance completely fluffed it
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Hercule Poirot and Miss Marples are among golden age sleuths giving new inspiration to a genre tired of alcoholic divorcees and goth hackers
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A new wave of shows are being told through a woman’s perspective, from sharp-tongued Fleabag to the darkly honest One Mississippi
letters & editorials
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Britain’s absence from the Bratislava summit of European leaders points up our future vulnerability
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Despite making progress on workers’ conditions and employee representation, the firm’s owner is a massive obstacle to change
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Businesses need to make better use of the older population
regulars
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Dear MariellaDear MariellaI share a bed with my stepbrother and now we are falling in love. Help!A 17-year-old is confused about her feelings for her mother’s boyfriend’s son of the same age. Mariella Frostrup says they need separate spaces – and help from responsible adults
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Jay Rayner on restaurantsJay Rayner on restaurantsClipstone: London restaurant reviewThe wooden seats at Clipstone may be unforgivingly hard, but the food is so superbly good you won’t notice, says Jay Rayner
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sport
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The joke has been on Nicklas Bendtner for far too long
Daniel TaylorThe supreme ego previously signed by Arsène Wenger and Antonio Conte must know that Nottingham Forest may be his last chance to make it -
Leroy Fer tells Stuart James about a quick profit from an equine misadventure, a wedding dance that is a YouTube hit, and being at a club where fans give him the pop star treatment
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Swansea’s clash with Chelsea refreshes a Serie A rivalry and highlights the way Italian coaching is currently outpacing the country’s pool of players
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Saturday’s sell-out crowd in the Olympic Park beat the attendance on the busiest day of the Olympics as the Paralympics came to life
interviews
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The veteran director’s latest movie lays bare the cruel realities for those who fall through the cracks of society. We look at Loach’s work and the politics that drive it, while, below, campaigners, artists and analysts react to the film
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The actor and director on addiction and success, Trump’s bankruptcies, and the film he wrote that no one will see for 100 years
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food & lifestyle
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With the autumn glut comes a final chance to enjoy homegrown tomatoes as the main event in stews and curries, by Nigel Slater
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More people than ever are moving from steak to seitan. Four recent converts tell us why they switched
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Clare Lattin’s industrial flat is an unusual – and cavernous London home. Nell Card clocks in
reviews
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Viggo Mortensen leads an outstanding cast as a grizzled rural eccentric who hits the road with his brood of home-schooled, off-grid children
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Denise Riley’s latest collection, much of which is about her late son, has qualities that place it apart from other poetry
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Grammar schools Private schools expect middle-class boost from May's plan
Is Theresa May’s grammar school strategy a reckless political gamble?