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Notebook
An Observer writer's view of the week
27 July 2024
Phrygian around: Paris is awash with Olympic paraphernalia
Pamela Druckerman
Sexually suggestive mascots, presidential merchandise, drag queens and refuse collectors – they’re all there with the athletes
20 July 2024
In Sheffield’s new top foodie destination, something gnaws at me and it isn’t hunger
Rachel Cooke
The city is now home to Europe’s largest food hall, in addition to three others and many new coffee shops. I just hope there is sufficient appetite
13 July 2024
The once dazzling Hardwick Hall shows us a past neverendingly radical and strange
Rowan Moore
This fearless and fragile hilltop castle is celebrated for its profligate use of glass and was no doubt bogglingly expensive to build
6 July 2024
Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?
Tim Adams
With a new government will come grown-up conversations about our colonial history’s part in the acquiring of artefacts
29 June 2024
Following in the footsteps of David Nicholls’ characters turned out to be good for our soles
Rachel Cooke
A trip to a local, well-known outdoors outlet proved that the spirit of Michael and Marnie is alive and well in Penrith
22 June 2024
Liberté, égalité, Mbappé! Footballer fights France’s extremists
Agnès Poirier
Just as sanity looks like returning in Britain, the French are tearing each other apart; can the masked hero Kylian Mbappé save the day?
15 June 2024
Labour’s chocolate box urban utopia is one election promise it can’t fulfil
Rowan Moore
Mooted Edwardian-style new towns are charming, but less than ideal for the disabled – and the images are curiously caucasian
8 June 2024
‘A sweet breeze amid a heatwave’: liberals feel hope again following Narendra Modi’s loss of his majority
Infowars liquidation a small measure of justice for bereaved Sandy Hook families
Tim Adams
1 June 2024
Who can afford the expensive gamble of going to see a play that you might not like?
Tomiwa Owolade
It’s a shame the cost of theatre tickets is out of the reach for so many people. Cinema is the cheaper option
25 May 2024
Hardy as old hostas, Chelsea flower show fans lapse into a crazed kind of Britishness
Rachel Cooke
Prevailing through downpours with Pimm’s and panamas, the visitors haven’t changed even if the RHS event has
18 May 2024
I’m passionate about the future of Glasgow School of Art’s glorious Mackintosh building, not just its past
Rowan Moore
My call for action to rebuild isn’t ‘sentimental’, it’s an appreciation of brilliant design
11 May 2024
A dearth of priests suggests the Catholic church should widen recruitment
Julian Coman
It’s no wonder numbers training for the priesthood continue to fall when married men or any woman are still barred
5 May 2024
Doing the Baghdad walk: art tour highlights creativity in the heart of Iraq
Annual tour shows war-torn capital is still alive with invention and reflection
4 May 2024
A successful woman in her 40s with a toyboy pop star? Great on screen in The Idea of You, scary in reality
Bidisha Mamata
It’s far less bother to stream romcoms, like the latest Anne Hathaway film, into my living room than play them out in real life
27 April 2024
What joy it is to have a friend with a superpower – getting a table at the hottest restaurants
Rachel Cooke
In New York, ‘reservation scalpers’ are making $80,000 a year, but I’m banking on a neighbour’s generosity
20 April 2024
Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles
Rowan Moore
It was billed as a futuristic, glass-walled city, but was only ever realised in the digital sphere – where it should remain
13 April 2024
If you’re seeking a good old British farce, look no further than Liz Truss’s memoirs
Tim Adams
Have you heard the one about the missing Ocado delivery at Downing Street? It’s side-splitting stuff
6 April 2024
The Taylor Swift gig economy is so big it’s even causing geopolitical tensions
Zing Tsjeng
Singapore reportedly paid the singer £2.4m a show to host her Eras tour, causing dismay in Thailand and the Philippines
30 March 2024
I thought selling my car was the right thing to do, but now I wonder why I bothered
Rachel Cooke
Despite my local council claiming to favour walkers and cyclists, it seems to be actively making my life more difficult
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