The Observer

Everyman No. 4,111 bit.ly/4lCIqR3

What to watch this week, from The Other Bennet Sister to Inside the Rage Machine bit.ly/4752cPi

Chelsea’s fine shows the Premier League is not keen to enforce its own rules bit.ly/4uEhYuo

“This market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if Iran initiates a drone, missile, or air strike on Israel’s soil on the listed date in Israel Time (GMT+2)” @IsabelColes on the gamblers trying to rewrite the record of the Iran war bit.ly/3Pl2xHp

Rebecca Solnit and the audacity of hope The Beginning Comes After the End makes the case for the power of activism in a world defined by authoritarianism and climate disaster, writes @KathleenJamie bit.ly/4ssHjWY

“You have two choices: either believe that we have the capabilities, and after you make us lose $900,000 we will invest no less than that to finish you. Or end this with money in your pocket, and also earn back the life you had until now,” @IsabelColes on the gamblers trying to rewrite the record of the Iran war bit.ly/3Pl2xHp

Lost Doctor Who episodes resurface after 50 years, revealing how memories can help preserve art The rare find recalls a time when television was fleeting, communal and easily lost, writes @EricaWgnr bit.ly/4sYvxDz

"How can you protect the country if you can't protect yourself? The killing of Iran’s security chief marks a turning point, @msrmichaelson reports bit.ly/4sT6im2

'Her art is an extraordinary expression of the power of the imagination and the will to find meaning' Lily Isaacs reviews a new biography of Yoko Ono’s shadowed life bit.ly/4uBs27x

When a journalist reported on a missile strike on an Israeli forest, he was inundated by messages accusing him of an ‘inaccurate report’ causing ‘a chain of errors’. Then, he realised he was at the centre of a gambling war on Polymarket, @IsabelColes reports bit.ly/3Pl2xHp

New musical celebrates the music and comedy of Victoria Wood Marking a decade since her death, theatre writer Tom MacRae has written Fourteen Again, a show celebrating Wood’s comic songs, writes @vanessathorpe bit.ly/4tg7P5V

Chelsea’s fine shows the Premier League is not keen to enforce its own rules On Monday the club were fined £10.75m, a punishment so insufficient it’s an insult to every other top-flight team, writes @GeorgeRSimms bit.ly/4sSssVj

The Cuban regime is under severe pressure to submit to Washington Trump wants to repeat the Venezuela playbook on the Caribbean island, writes @Thomas__Graham bit.ly/4lDYLVH

How gamblers are trying to rewrite the record of the Iran war When a journalist reported on a missile strike on an Israeli forest, he was inundated by messages accusing him of an ‘inaccurate report’ causing ‘a chain of errors’. Then, he realised he was at the centre of a gambling war on Polymarket, writes @IsabelColes bit.ly/3Pl2xHp

‘Reeves has an organising idea: the active and strategic state.’ The Observer view: Rachel Reeves’s Mais lecture offered a coherent and invigorating plan for the UK economy bit.ly/41dVeUw

‘Ferrante’s name seems to invite this vicious kind of impersonation. The belief that by remaining anonymous, she is somehow “scamming us” – that she might deserve the death hoaxes, the doxxing, for holding herself back’ Lily Isaacs on the obsession with unmasking Elena Ferrante bit.ly/4lwPleB

‘Trump has made a career out of defining himself by his enemies – the judiciary, the media, the universities, immigrants, Europe and Nato’ Now it's Starmer’s turn, writes @RSylvester1 bit.ly/4sRY1yu

'Here they are at 2am, or during work, for hours a day committed to picking apart a famous person they uniquely despise' @SarahManavis dives inside the scary world of the ‘anti-fan’ bit.ly/40GFb1p

The Observer view: the chancellor’s big idea Rachel Reeves’s Mais lecture offered a coherent and invigorating plan for the UK economy. It, finally, set out a commitment to align with Europe and, after an even longer wait, devolve tax-raising powers to mayors and local governments. It might actually work bit.ly/41dVeUw

Yoko Ono’s shadowed life Paul Morley's biography seeks to free Ono from the men who have obscured her – but he fails to shed enough light on her radical, risk-taking art, writes Lily Isaacs bit.ly/4uBs27x