The Observer Magazine

The Observer is a British Sunday newspaper that shares a similar political stance with its daily counterparts, The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly. All three are owned by Guardian Media Group Limited, which acquired The Observer in 1993. The paper generally follows a socially liberal or social democratic viewpoint on various topics. Established in 1791, it holds the title of the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world.

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UK ministers delay AI regulation amid plans for more ‘comprehensive’ bill

14 hours ago | theguardian.com | Eleni Courea |Kiran Stacey

Proposals to regulate artificial intelligence have been delayed by at least a year as UK ministers plan a bumper bill to regulate the technology and its use of copyrighted material. Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, intends to introduce a “comprehensive” AI bill in the next parliamentary session to address concerns about issues including safety and copyright. This will not be ready before the next king’s speech, and is likely to trigger concerns about delays to regulating the technology.
Women could be charged over miscarriages, a West Virginia prosecutor says | Arwa Mahdawi

19 hours ago | theguardian.com | Arwa Mahdawi

Avoid (having a miscarriage in) West Virginia“911. What’s your emergency?”“Hello, I would like to report the fact that I am having a very heavy period. Can you send a police officer over right away to collect my menstrual matter and check whether I’ve broken any laws?”The above is not a transcript of an actual conversation in West Virginia but, the way things are headed, it could be a glimpse of what’s to come.
‘They’re perfect - until they aren’t’: why are people so interested in the Beckxit beef?

19 hours ago | theguardian.com | Morwenna Ferrier

If the biggest feud of the week belongs to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, then the longest running is arguably “Beckxit”. The name given to the fallout between one of the most famous couples in the world – David and Victoria Beckham – and their less famous eldest son, Brooklyn and his wife, Nicola Anne Peltz, was coined by the Daily Mail this year.
Ministers accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ over UK’s soft power around the world

23 hours ago | theguardian.com | Michael Savage |Kiran Stacey

Ministers have been accused of being “asleep at the wheel” over threats to the UK’s soft power around the world, as some of their own advisers warned a funding crisis is undermining key institutions promoting British influence. Members of the government’s new soft power council, set up by ministers earlier this year, warned the BBC World Service, the British Council and universities – regarded as the bodies at the forefront of the UK’s soft power efforts – all face major financial pressures.
As US retreats, is there a ‘soft power’ opportunity for UK?

23 hours ago | theguardian.com | Michael Savage |Kiran Stacey

The US is retreating from international cooperation, cutting support for free media abroad and reducing financial aid. Russia and China are spending up to £8bn on their global media activities to boost their influence. Amid these global tensions, the UK government recognises the dangers of a western retreat – but is struggling to fund a response.
Jack Reacher author Lee Child: ‘More sex is medically implausible and I’m as rich and famous as I need to be’

23 hours ago | theguardian.com | Rosanna Greenstreet

Born in the West Midlands, Lee Child, 70, studied law before working in television. After losing his job following a corporate restructuring, he published Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series, in 1997. His novels have been adapted into two films, starring Tom Cruise, and an Amazon Prime series. He now writes with his brother Andrew and they headline Theakston Old Peculier crime writing festival in Harrogate next month. The 30th Reacher thriller, Exit Strategy, is out in November.
Five years since Colston fell, there have been setbacks – but those who demanded race equality have not gone away | Simon Woolley

23 hours ago | theguardian.com | Simon Woolley

The toppling of the statue of the British enslaver Edward Colston, five years ago today, felt like a historic moment. Bringing down this one statue and symbolically hurling it into Bristol harbour, protesters – predominantly white – drew international attention to the barbarity of African enslavement, its generated wealth that turbocharged the UK’s global power and the legacy of slavery, whose long historical tail had led to the murder of George Floyd less than two weeks before.
TV tonight: the BBC opens a Billy Joel treasure trove

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Jack Seale |Ali Catterall |Ellen Jones |Simon Wardell

Billy Joel at the BBC8.40pm, BBC TwoIt’s basically a Billy Joel night for megafans to get lost in on BBC Two, with his 100th show at Madison Square Garden last year and a vintage recording from 1978 airing later in the evening. But first: a warm-up with these archive clips of Joel performing over the years, with the likes of Uptown Girl, Piano Man and Just the Way You Are, along with interviews and appearances.
At least three killed in Russia’s ‘most powerful’ strike on Ukraine’s second city - Russia-Ukraine war live

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Luke Jacobs

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMayor: Kharkiv 'currently experiencing' most powerful attack since start of the warMore now on the overnight attacks on Kharkiv, which we’ve learned also reportedly injured a one-and-a-half -month-old baby. The mayor of the city, which is Ukraine’s second largest, said the attack was Russia’s biggest .
Switch on those glutes! Suddenly it’s all about the bass, and for good reason

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Bianca Nogrady

I’m staring at the screen, trying to write a joke. It involves a muscle called the gluteus maximus, Roman centurions and possibly a reference to Biggus somebody from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. I’ve been sitting here for over an hour, so long that when I finally stand up I have to hobble and wobble a few steps before I can get my stride back. It’s because my glutei maximi are a bit of a joke.