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Two contrasting but equally impressive Asia-set coming-of-age novels explore gay teenagers navigating their nascent sexuality against the backdrop of personal and political upheavals

More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to ­wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’

While Google is somehow resisting some censorship requests, Apple keeps killing VPN apps upon Russia's orders. Here's all you need to know.

An account on Elon Musk’s X platform has been linked to an ICE employee spouting ‘blatantly racist and anti-immigrant views’

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Development of a joint defence shield would be politically explosive for Keir Starmer. But it’s an idea whose time has come, says the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Acclaimed football writer who worked for the Guardian and the Observer, and proved a hit on Sky TV

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The football journalist, who has died at the age of 77, combined Caledonian charm and natural effervescence with a body of work that few could match