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The daily weblog from The Observer - the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world.
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Tony Blair answers your questions
Tony Blair talks to Will Hutton and Anne McElvoy. Photograph: pm.gov.uk Yesterday we asked you to submit some questions for an interview with Tony Blair; Downing Street also took questions from the Number 10 website. Observer columnist Will Hutton and the Standard's Anne McElvoy selected some of those questions and...
Submit a question for Tony Blair
Now that you've had time to absorb the Queen's speech outlining the government's legislative programme for the year ahead, we want your questions for the prime minister. Observer columnist, Will Hutton, will select questions to put to him tomorrow morning, so we need them by 7pm tonight at the latest....
Why should individuals fight climate change?
There really is no escaping climate change, especially this week. Every commercial organisation worth their salt wants to hold a screening of An Inconvenient Truth, George Monbiot does the TV rounds promoting his book Heat, full of apolcalyptic warnings, and tomorrow the government's Stern review focusing on the costs of...
What's the point of the mobile club?
Part of my job as the paper's diary writer is to make sure I put myself where the action is during the week, writes Oliver Marre. But while it has always been easy enough to receive intelligence on where famous faces will be appearing, trendy gatherings of everyday folk (or,...
Podcast: Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis arrives at the NME awards. Photo: Dave Benett/GettyThe guest editor of this month's Music Monthly magazine - that's Jarvis Cocker - has wanted to get to the bottom of a thorny question: music - what's that all about then? To answer it, he called on a handful of friends...
Britain's cultural explosion
Have the arts ever been so healthy? Here on the Review desk we're calling it a cultural explosion and we sent Rachel Cooke out to as many events as she could manage in a 24-hour period, in an attempt to find out why this is happening now. In this piece,...
Slide away at the Tate
This is a first for me - I have never attempted a weblog before, confesses Lynn Barber. But the Obs generously volunteered me to write an account of going down one of Carsten Höller's slides at the Tate's Turbine Hall. Not that it was a hardship - I was dying...
Why are parents so neurotic these days?
How did family life get to be so complicated? Suddenly 'parenting' has been raised to the level of a science and become as modish as 'incentivising' and 'down-shifting', write Annie Ashworth and Meg Sanders, authors of The Madness of Modern Families. And it's a subject on which many claim expertise....
Best books of the last 25 years
Last May the New York Times sent a ripple through the international book world when it announced that its Sunday Book Review had polled a bunch of American writers and come up with the 'best book of 1980-2005'. The answer? Beloved by Toni Morrison, observes Robert McCrum. This got us...
Anna Politkovskaya: a tribute
Just a few hours ago, I wrote that a record number of journalists - 75 - had already been killed in 2006. This morning, two more - both German reporters - were found murdered in Afghanistan, writes Peter Preston. And now one of the bravest, most garlanded correspondents in the...
Something changed
As previously mentioned, Jarvis Cocker is guest editing the next issue of Observer Music Monthly (out on 15 October). Jarvis was in Ireland this week, to perform at Hal Willner's 'Came So Far For Beauty: An Evening Of Leonard Cohen Songs', part of Dublin Theatre Festival. So OMM nipped over...
Awight now?
This Sunday's Observer Magazine features an interview with Michael Barrymore, still recovering from the effects of drink, divorce and despair. But, as he tells Chrissy Iley, he's back, he thinks, from the brink and about to publish a book, Awight Now. Read an extract of the interview below....
Name your favourite footie film
Back in May, in a report from the Cannes Film Festival for the Observer Review, I wrote that Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait was 'the greatest film about football ever made'. I knew I was putting myself on the line. Movie fans are passionate - try arguing with one about...
Jarvis Cocker wants scary song suggestions
The next Observer Music Monthly has been taken over by Jarvis Cocker, the erstwhile singer with Pulp who's been causing a stir in the music industry before the imminent release of his fabulous debut solo album, Jarvis. We're not mincing our words over this record, which may very well be...
Road rage over speeding stories
Readers have been rattling their keyboards this week over the subject of speed on our roads. Last week, we reported on the reopening of the debate over the punishment of dangerous drivers as new figures show that deaths on the road are rising. In the same issue we also carried...
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