The Observer

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‘I packed up the car under the cover of darkness. It was the scariest moment of my life as I drove off’ @louisetickle investigates how the MoD tried to cover up domestic abuse by a special forces soldier bit.ly/3RfL18i

“You can never know what’s going to change someone’s mind. So you just have to put things out there. You’ll never know what will resonate, and you never know how it will touch someone.” Screenwriter and producer @russelldavies63 talks his new show Tip Toe, coming out, and his TV success bit.ly/4cMhUlF

“The left needs to take this issue [the battle against antisemitism] seriously, to see it as intimately linked to the wider politics of freedom and equality.” My @ObserverUK column: observer.co.uk/news/columnist…

This week, Nigel Farage said an undeclared £5m donation was essential for security He cited an "outright arson attempt" on his house. But @ObserverUK has established that police are investigating the incident as a burglary

“I can see the positive in people where others maybe can’t” - today’s @ObserverUK Walk is with prisons minister and businessman James Timpson, one of the few people in politics who doesn’t want to be prime minister observer.co.uk/news/national/…

Croon if you want, Damian Lewis. Everyone deserves a midlife wobble @katemaltby writes that the actor’s pivot to music is easy to mock, yet this excruciating second act captures a universal middle-age itch to try something different bit.ly/3QCOca6

Are we all just non-playable characters? You can now learn to mimic the background fodder in video games. But is that already our reality, asks @YoZushi81 bit.ly/4cM9FG6

Escalation in anti-Jewish violence exposes a wider breakdown in moral clarity The culture of denial, political cowardice and hostile narratives must be confronted, writes @kenanmalik bit.ly/4n31it7

We are in prime ‘just look what it means’ territory of the football season bit.ly/4n0AMAy

Cue boredom... Crucible crowd left yawning by snooker’s slowest frame bit.ly/4dlnCLj

Why we should mind the UK’s rising wealth gap bit.ly/4t9qSOA

Cabin coup: a garden shed with a difference bit.ly/4ur9fej

Russell T Davies: ‘I didn’t think coming out would still be a big deal. But it is’ bit.ly/4urKDlJ

Kim Ju-ae: North Korea’s next leader or just a prop for her father? bit.ly/4eHVuU3

How the General Strike changed Britain bit.ly/4w6sDi8

Lords were doing their job of scrutiny on assisted dying bit.ly/4tdEcBF

One hundred years of Attenborough, the man who taught me what love is bit.ly/4w3ZLqO

Spooked investors could ground Heathrow’s third runway Foreign stakeholders appear to be getting cold feet as the Iran war drives costs ever higher. The future of the troubled £49bn project looks precarious if there’s a reshuffle at No 11, writes @Brad_Gray_ bit.ly/3OCuYAQ

'There is no question that our history tells us that it’s not just that we’re paranoid, this is real' Eva Wiseman returns to her familiar neighbourhood of Golders Green with dread, and wonders how much of her fear is politicised bit.ly/4cN8BSl

Billionaire benefactor Christopher Harborne now says that, having seen how exposed Farage was, the gift was ‘to support Nigel’s security for life’ The Observer has learned the police judged one crucial incident to be less serious than Farage himself reported, write @CatNeilan and Ceri Thomas bit.ly/4cZB4TX