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  • Dr Richard Taylor, who is contesting the Labour-held marginal seat of Wyre Forest in Worcestershire, for the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, outside the hospital where he worked as a doctor and consultant for 23 years. The hospital has been continuously downgraded since the present Labour government took office and is central to the Party's election manifesto. Photo by Steve Forrest/Troika

    Dr Richard Taylor obituary

  • Feet standing on weighing scales

    Much of NHS in England ‘does not take obesity seriously enough’

    Only five of England’s 42 integrated care boards have made obesity a top priority, says thinktank
  • Katy Wix for Observer Magazine

    Could you forgive your childhood bully? Katy Wix confronts a painful memory

    When the actor and comedian’s teenage best friend suddenly became her cruel tormentor, Katy Wix’s mum told her to be patient and not to let it get to her. But it did. Decades later, a message arrives out of the blue…
  • A multicoloured screenprint of Kate Moss

    Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

  • Jonathan Clucas, headteacher at Layton Primary School, Blackpool.

    Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

  • A long row of dozens, or even hundreds, or dark green cannabis plants in a hoop house, with translucent light coming in from above.

    Cannabis medications could be eligible for FDA approval under proposed DEA rules

  • A smiling Wes Streeting walks to No 10 after the election result on Friday

    Wes Streeting says NHS is broken as he announces pay talks with junior doctors

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • A silhouette of a couple embracing at dusk as they looking out a window onto a cityscape

    The modern mind
    We often turn to loved ones for support, but relationships can falter if our feelings are ignored

    Gaynor Parkin and Amanda Wallis
  • Ben Woodbury at his design store

    Australian education
    Years at Exclusive Brethren school were ‘darkest moments of my life’, says former student

    Ben Woodbury says school run by sect was not a safe environment for him, with limited access to external counselling services
  • composite image showing the writer against a backdrop with cut-out images of a book, a union jack flag, a twisted church spire, a newspaper headline reading 'shocking rise', Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Farage

    Politics
    My home town: how Chesterfield changed under Conservative rule

    As Labour takes power for the first time in 14 years, Sunjeev Sahota describes the ‘betrayed, emptied’ Derbyshire town

  • Games
    Totally wired: why are so many young people addicted to video games?

  • Observer letters
    Physician associates are heroes, not villains

  • Keir Starmer
    Starmer tells his cabinet: now it’s time to deliver on our promises

  • Keir Starmer
    Keir Starmer hits out at prison system ‘mess’ caused by Tories

  • Phoenix
    Heat-related deaths in Phoenix, Arizona, have nearly doubled this year

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • Keir Starmer holds a news conference after his first cabinet meeting on 6 July 2024.

    The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

  • Headshot of Michael Holden, author, June 2024

    For years I was my parents’ reluctant carer. Then I was told I was making things worse

  • A smiling Ed Davey

    Lib Dems to push for cross-party talks on tackling social care

  • Larry, the Downing Street cat, on step outside No 10.

    New prime minister will face a range of urgent priorities from day one

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Central & local government

  • A small village branch library with self-service checkouts.

    End of the librarian? Council cuts and new tech push profession to the brink

  • Close-up of Keir Starmer smiling with his wife, Victoria

    Call me Keir: PM happy to be informal as he tackles first press questions

  • maurice wright

    Maurice Wright obituary

  • Rishi Sunak's head above a 'stop the boat' sign

    Civil servants obliged to carry out Tory Rwanda deportations, court rules

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Voluntary sector

  • Oslo 19861125 Leah Levin i Oslo for å snakke om barnearbeid. Foto: Svein E. Furulund / Aftenposten / NTB scanpix Fysisk loc. 77.00

    Leah Levin obituary

  • A CUSTODY OFFICER TALKS TO AN OFFENDER BEFORE A FOOTBALL

    Invest in people, not in building more prisons, to cut reoffending

  • Hannah Ingram-Moore with Captain Tom Moore in April 2020.

    Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband banned from being charity trustees

  • Farmer and Fell runner Joss Naylor running up Wasdale with courage determination in the Lake District Cumbria<br>AJGF81 Farmer and Fell runner Joss Naylor running up Wasdale with courage determination in the Lake District Cumbria

    Joss Naylor obituary

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Housing

  • Amelia Williams in a holiday snap, leaning on railings with a sunny seaside city below

    ‘I want Keir Starmer to have a sudden massive personality change’: gen Z on their hopes for a Labour government

    • Nils Pratley

      Houses and pylons: Labour’s biggest business challenges

      Nils Pratley
    • A small town garden

      The Guardian view on gardens: needed for council homes, not just stately homes

    • Julian (white tshirt) Alex (female, glasses), Patrick (suit jacket, David (black tshirt) and James. Residents of Ice Wharf basin for a story on rising mooring fees. London. Photograph by David Levene 4/7/24

      London houseboat residents fear rise in mooring fees will price them out

    • Diyora Shadijanova

      Britain’s decrepit homes cause three big problems. Luckily, this green policy could fix them all

      Diyora Shadijanova
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