The Observer drugs debate
The War on Drugs: the Observer debate – as it happenedLive coverage of a panel discussion on drug laws with David Simon, writer of The Wire, documentary maker Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Seifert, the director of the documentary Cocaine Unwrapped and others at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. The debate was chaired by Observer editor John Mulholland
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Tony Blair answers your questions
Tony Blair talks to Will Hutton and Anne McElvoy. Photograph: pm.gov.uk
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Submit a question for Tony BlairNow 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.
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Why should individuals fight climate change?There really is no escaping climate change, especially this week.
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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.
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Podcast: Jarvis CockerObserver blog
Britain's cultural explosion
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Slide away at the TateThis is a first for me - I have never attempted a weblog before, confesses Lynn Barber.
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Why are parents so neurotic these days?Observer blog
Best books of the last 25 years
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Anna Politkovskaya: a tributeJust 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.
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Something changedAs 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 with a bunch of proofs for him to cast his eye over...
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Awight now?This Sunday's Observer Magazine features an interview with Michael Barrymore, still recovering from the effects of drink, divorce and despair.
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Name your favourite footie filmBack 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'.
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Jarvis Cocker wants scary song suggestionsThe 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 the greatest ever made (see the issue on 15 October for Jon Savage's verdict).
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Road rage over speeding storiesReaders have been rattling their keyboards this week over the subject of speed on our roads.
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Hospital food - it's enough to make you sickTowards the end of our special report in OFM on the dismal state of hospital food in Britain, despite five years of initiatives, there's an interview with Andy Burnham, a minister in the Department of Health. The story of the struggle to get that interview, and what he said that isn't quoted, is as illuminating as what he is quoted as saying, writes Jay Rayner.
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What makes Dirty Dancing so durable?Next month, the stage version of Dirty Dancing - the definitive eighties chick flick, which starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey - hits London (sadly, with a different cast).
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Tana's kitchenIn this month's Observer Woman, Rachel Cooke meets Tana Ramsay, loyal (and, some may say, long-suffering) wife of Gordon.
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The Mercury Prize: who should have won? what did we eat?It was the Mercury Music prize last night - a good old-fashioned industry knees-up, spoilt only by the musical interludes. I mean, Thom Yorke mewling through a song like 'Analyse' is enough to put anyone off their seared escabeche of halibut infused with mint and lemon grass, ragout of sweet potato and shitake mushrooms and Asian greens flavoured with lavender essence...
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