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Notebook

An Observer writer's view of the week

  • Red plush Paris 2024 mascots cover a car.

    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
  • Rachel Cooke

    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
  • Rowan Moore

    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
  • Tim Adams

    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
  • Rachel Cooke

    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
  • Agnès Poirier

    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?
  • Rowan Moore

    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
  • A group of students sitting at an outdoor canteen at Jawaharlal Nehru University

    ‘A sweet breeze amid a heatwave’: liberals feel hope again following Narendra Modi’s loss of his majority

  • Tim Adams

    Infowars liquidation a small measure of justice for bereaved Sandy Hook families

    Tim Adams
  • couple sitting in cinema seats

    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
  • Rachel Cooke

    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
  • Rowan Moore

    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
  • Pope Francis sitting on a stage in Rome

    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
  • An audience listen to a sound archive by Ateef al-Jaffal during the 2023 festival.

    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
  • Bidisha Mamata

    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
  • Rachel Cooke

    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
  • Rowan Moore

    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
  • Tim Adams

    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
  • Zing Tsjeng

    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
  • Rachel Cooke

    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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