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For the recordprobA technical error last week led to the Review section losing the last line of text on each leg of the spy feature 'From Finchley With Love'. Apologies. The full text of the piece is available on our website, www.observer.co.uk including the information that David Burke's book, The Spy Who Came in From the Co-op, will be published by Bloomsbury early next year.
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Two sides to animal rights story
Stephen PritchardStephen Pritchard: Eye witnesses swore our report of a stormy meeting was false. So what was the truth?Two sides to animal rights story
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A misleading message in a bottle
A misleading message in a bottle
Stephen PritchardStephen Pritchard: Newspapers employ several devices to persuade you to read a story, headlines and photographs being the most obvious.
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Dignity in death
Dignity in death
Stephen Pritchard, readers' editorStephen Pritchard: Was The Observer right last week to publish a front-page photograph of two children - victims of the Iranian earthquake - being carried to their graves by their grieving father?
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Our spy story spelt conspiracy to some
Our spy story spelt conspiracy to some
Stephen PritchardThe everyday use of a piece of simple computer technology placed this newspaper at the centre of a storm last week, providing the twitchy global community of conspiracy theorists with enough material for a whole conference and prompting a record number of visits to our website writes Readers' Editor Stephen Pritchard.
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Considering the editorial line
Considering the editorial line
Stephen PritchardStephen Pritchard: Just how are decisions reached about what goes in and what stays out of The Observer?
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So, you want to write to the editorThere's an art to getting your letter printed in a newspaper... stick to the point and don't use green ink.
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Well, it all depends on what you mean by war
Well, it all depends on what you mean by war
Stephen PritchardStephen Pritchard: 'The first casualty when war comes is truth,' said Hiram Warren Johnson in a speech to the US Senate in 1917. He might have added that the second is language.
Fair and foul
As the seasons overlap, there's no question which game is the beautiful one.