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2017 the year ahead

Our sitewide guide to the year ahead

17 January 2017

  • Dark nights of the soul … Jessica Chastain as a ruthless lobbyist in Miss Sloane.

    Breaking bad: Hollywood wakes up to the power of dark, dangerous women

    Forget the sobbing suffering beauty. From Rebecca Hall’s unlikable newsreader to Jessica Chastain’s ruthless lobbyist, this is the year of the unsympathetic, deeply flawed femme. Thank goodness for that

13 January 2017

  • Father and son walking

    Five things to look out for in children's social care in 2017

    Developments this year will be exciting and, in some cases, controversial

12 January 2017

  • Portrait Of Cow Sticking Out Tongue AgainCow Sticking Out Tonguetst Clear Blue Sky<br>GettyImages-590362581

    Seven things in food to stay livid about in 2017

  • Children make their way home from school in the Easterhouse housing estate in Glasgow.

    My hope for 2017: change people's view of the care system

    Dave Hill

7 January 2017

  • 2017 literary calendar 170107

    Books in 2017: a literary calendar

    Jane Austen’s bicentenary, Arundhati Roy’s first novel in 20 years, and unpublished F Scott Fitzgerald ... the literary year ahead

6 January 2017

  • a plastic model of a house on a pile of one pound coins.

    For equitable and sustainable social care we need a dedicated tax

    Paul Burstow
    Raising council tax to pay for social care will disadvantage poor people the most. We need a fresh way of paying for care, and a new offer

4 January 2017

  • NHS protest

    2016 was the worst year in NHS history – we must fight for its survival

    Kailash Chand
  • Extended family running in park

    For change in social care to bring value, it must be messy

    Alex Fox

3 January 2017

  • Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on January 1, 2017

    What does 2017 hold for social care?

    Mahiben Maruthappu
    Technology and integration with the NHS could transform the sector, but we must debate alternative sources of funding
  • David Squires on new year

    David Squires on … what we can expect from football in 2017

    Our resident cartoonist looks ahead to the next 12 months and foresees some inevitably worrying things
  • Calendar January close up with blue background<br>BPA37J Calendar January close up with blue background

    Chastened charities must find their place in 2017 Brexit Britain

    Brexit, fundraising scandals and crumbling trust loom over the voluntary sector, but the new year also offers a chance to reflect

2 January 2017

  • ‘Local restaurants have positive effects on communities.’

    2017’s big ideas – part two: from a northern Labour party to fighting cancer

    Jess Cartner-Morley is wearing Statue of Liberty green, Angela Hartnett hails the rise of regional bistros and TED’s Chris Anderson has a new vision for the future
  • The Dyson SafetyNet

    2017’s big ideas – part one: from driverless cars to interstellar travel

    James Dyson is excited about the SafetyNet invention, Jim Al-Khalili can’t wait to study Saturn up close and Amanda Levete looks to a resurgence of civic space
  • Passengers wait for a delayed trains in Victoria station during Southern Railway strike action.

    Happy new year? 2017 rings in more commuter misery and higher bills

    The outlook may be a little bleak, but with a rising national living wage, the lifetime Isa and more protection for savers it’s not all bad

1 January 2017

  • Observer New Review rising stars for 2017 Kloe Pop singer from Glasgow photographed at tileyard studios november 2016

    Rising stars of 2017: singer Kloe

  • Felicia Yap photographed at the offices of Hachette UK in London. Three publishers battled it out in the final round in an auction for rights to "The Day After Yesterday". It is Yap's first book. .Felicia Yap grew up in Kuala Lumpur. She read biochemistry at Imperial College London, followed by a doctorate in history (and a half-blue in competitive ballroom dancing) at Cambridge University. She has written for 'The Economist' and the 'Business Times'. She has also been a radioactive-cell biologist, a war historian, a Cambridge lecturer, a technology journalist, a theatre critic, a flea-market trader and a catwalk model. Felicia lives in London and is a recent graduate of the Faber Academy's novel-writing program.

    Rising stars of 2017: novelist Felicia Yap

  • Rising stars of 2017: campaigner Faiza Shaheen

  • krtin nithiyanandam holding a human skull at the wellcome collection in london

    Rising stars of 2017: research scientist Krtin Nithiyanandam

  • Rising stars of 2017: comedian Lolly Adefope

  • Rising stars of 2017: artist Aaron Angell

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