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The Observer archive

This is the archive of The Observer up until 21 April 2025. Find new articles of The Observer onobserver.co.uk

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  Observer business profile

  ‘Employment’s the best way to stop reoffending’: the boss of ready meals firm Cook on the ‘talent’ in prisons

  The co-founder of the family-run frozen food maker says ethical practices pay dividends on top of financial returns for her business
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  Self and wellbeing

  How an American businessman lost his job and found himself in an old French vineyard

  One day, life as a finance consultant stopped making sense for Peter Hahn, so he took to organic winegrowing in the Loire instead. He talks to Genevieve Fox

• • Nigel Slater's midweek dinner

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for almond and marzipan biscuits

  • Wellwater by Karen Solie – landscapes in distress captured with raw candour

  • Book of the day

    Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp review – a TikTok Stepford Wives for the Pornhub era

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  Be a sim-only saver: could you join the phone users shunning bundles?

  More people are switching to deals with greater flexibility and value, and there are a growing number of providers
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  Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert review – how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves

  The Pulitzer-nominated journalist recounts how modern misogyny has been shaped by a mass culture attuned to male desire and all-pervasive pornography

• • Your problems, with Anna Tims

    I’ve just been housed. Now I’m paying someone else’s debt on my prepay meter

  • Lucy Shuker: ‘I took up the sport to find me. It wasn’t to be a Paralympian’

  • Book of the day

    Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something

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  The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight
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  Freaky Tales review – fun, scuzzy tribute to the exploitation flick
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  From kumquats to lime caviar: UK foodies embrace a whole new world of citrus
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  The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted microchip – review

• Delusions of Paradise by Maiwand Banayee review – a compelling rejection of fundamentalism

• ‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

• ‘Performing is not some gigantic thing – it’s just me breathing’: Obongjayar on the journey from shyness to stardom

• Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards review – night owls of all feathers

• The end of WeightWatchers? How the dieting club lost out to slimming drugs

• Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great