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Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review

The comedian and presenter edits a special issue of the Observer New Review

  • Hamad Abu Aliah stands in his torched home at al-Mughayier village in the West Bank.

    Original Observer Photography

    From a mural in Birmingham commemorating poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the Observer’s favourite food shops: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in April 2024
  • Ignore The Kids ** Med res

    Fake ads, real politics: the art of Foka Wolf, the ‘Birmingham Banksy’ – in pictures

  • An illustration in tones of blue, grey and red, of people connected with Birmingham arranged around some of its landmark buildings

    Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a broken King Kong statue.

    I value Brummie art, but who else does?

    Stewart Lee
  • Azeem Choudhry and Ibrahim standing on their plot. Ibrahim is holding a child's spade, and his bike is in the foreground

    ‘The courgettes were so good last year, I got a tattoo of one’: life on a Birmingham allotment

  • Simone Lia: Rabbits having sex in Birmingham – cartoon

  • ‘I spend less time self-sabotaging’: Robbie Williams and Joe Lycett on making art

  • Souvenir from the Anthropocene, by Claire Douglass.

    The big picture: all of Birmingham’s human life is here

    Claire Douglass’s giant vista of ‘late-stage capitalism in frightening times’ features many city notables, including Joe Lycett clutching a carrier bag
  • Katherine Ryan sitting on an antique sofa in an elaborate red, yellow and orange gown

    On my radar: Katherine Ryan’s cultural highlights

    The comedian on her favourite new painter, the downfall of Diddy, and wanting to save Britney Spears
  • Munya Chawawa photographed by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review.

    Comedian Munya Chawawa: ‘I want to be the Swiss army knife of TV shows – I’m up for all of it’

    The comedian on his rise from lockdown sensation to double Bafta nominee, approval from Stormzy and splitting apples with his bare hands
  • Adults and children (and two people dressed as unicorns) in a crowd round a large automaton puppet in the grounds of the Midland Arts Centre

    Rock cakes in a shed, underground art and conceptual cocktails: a Brummie insiders’ guide to Birmingham

  • Joe Lycett holding a glass sitting at a restaurant table

    ‘Anyone for cowboy butter?’: lunch with Joe Lycett at one of Birmingham’s hottest restaurants

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