9+ hour, 26+ min ago   (57+ words) The Observer Sunday 13 September 2026 The grid: the long wave goodbye Mariella Frostrup: My festival has started arguments already. Good, that’s the whole point The Design Class of 2026: Meet the innovators shaping London’s creative landscape Deanna Dikeman: Leaving and Waving is…...

8+ hour, 42+ min ago   (232+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 One big British winner from the boom in artificial intelligence is a company that started life 45 years ago selling IBM personal computers from a shop in Swindon. This week, Computacenter’s share price hit an all-time high, with a…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago   (808+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 In October 2023, the founder of Palantir, Peter Thiel, took to the stage at Oxford University’s Sheldonian theatre to deliver a lecture about his book The Diversity Myth. Sitting in the front row was James Orr, an academic and,…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago   (750+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Multi-million pound donations to Reform UK from two crypto-billionaires may fall foul of a new law that caps the amount of money Britons living abroad can contribute to political parties. Yesterday, Christopher Harborne, who is based in Thailand,…...

9+ hour, 34+ min ago   (832+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Keir Starmer resisted calls from the Labour party and parts of the Foreign Office to ban trade with illegal West Bank settlements for years out of fear of angering Israel. The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, brought 11 countries on…...

10+ hour, 23+ min ago   (555+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 As fears mount over AI safety and dependence on US labs, a survey of large UK businesses has found that more than half want greater control over sensitive data, while 29% now view “digital sovereignty” as a board-level priority....

10+ hour, 23+ min ago   (700+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 In February, a flurry of legal letters was sent on behalf of PwC to a senior staff member at the boutique consultancy firm Unity Advisory. Unity had been launched by PwC’s former UK chief operating officer, Marissa Thomas,…...

10+ hour, 23+ min ago   (353+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 For a decade, the car dealership on Lombard Road in Battersea, south London, sold vehicles made by Jaguar Land Rover. No longer. The showroom, owned by the Lookers group, has been refitted as a flagship store for Omoda…...

10+ hour, 57+ min ago   (285+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Houthi fighters chanting and raising rifles atop a military vehicle in Dhubab district, Taiz province, Yemen Gas prices in the UK and Europe climbed to their highest level since 2022 as a resurgence of conflict in the Middle East…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (675+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 Candidates interviewing for jobs at the frontier AI lab Anthropic have reported being asked a surprising question: “How would you feel if the company someday abandoned its AI ambitions for safety reasons, and that decision sent the stock…...