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For decades, doping has operated in the shadows of elite sport. Now, it’s stepping into the spotlight.

This Sunday, a handpicked group of drug-enhanced athletes will compete in the Nevada desert at #TheEnhancedGames — an event openly embracing substances banned under anti-doping rules, including testosterone, human growth hormone and steroids.

Organisers say it’s a bold experiment in human enhancement, longevity and scientific progress. Critics say it challenges the very meaning of fair competition.

So: is this the future of sport?

On this week’s episode of #SlowNewscast, Jeremy Whittle and Chris Marshall-Bell investigate the rise of the Enhanced Games, and ask what happens when elite sport stops pretending enhancement doesn’t exist.

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We’re proud to have been supported by The Observer, and previously Tortoise Media, from the very beginning.

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Missed a session at #TruthTellers 2026, or want to hear it again?

A selection of this year’s panels and interviews is now live as a podcast series, brought to you by @theobserveruk

We’re proud to have been supported by The Observer, and previously Tortoise Media, from the very beginning.

Big conversations, sharp insights, and the voices shaping investigative journalism, all in one place.

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Inside London’s most colourful shop L Cornelissen & Son has supplied raw pigments to artists and artisans for almost 170 years “What makes using raw pigments magical are two things,” says the shop’s owner of 50 years, Nicholas Walt, a genial, softly spoken man now 83. “You can make your own colours at considerably less cost than buying tubes. And then there’s the sheer pleasure of making colour.”

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The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Walk with @praddenkeefe

The investigative journalist points up to the balcony where 19-year-old Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. Keefe heard the story of the young man who pretended to be a Russian oligarch’s son by chance.

On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the setting of his latest book, London Falling, the investigative journalist tells Basia Cummings how the online world and Trumpist nihilism led the young man at its centre to his death.

With his exacting eye for detail, Keefe brought to life the Riverwalk apartment complex, the Brettlers' tragic case and Zac's entanglement with wealth. He shares why this is the most intimate story he’s ever written and his journey to cultural celebrity and New Yorker writer.

Read more at the link in bio - and in this weekend's paper.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Observer issue no. 12,232 Survival of the fittest
Larry, the Downing Street cat, has outlasted six prime ministers and counting

Featuring:
Starmer, Miliband and broken friendships in Westminster by Tom Baldwin
Rachel Sylvester: Streeting is standing and wants to rejoin the EU
Burnham faces Reform in the battle for Makerfield by Andrew Anthony

Plus:
The flower power of @hamishpowell: Meet the florist to the royals
@nigelslater's grilled scallops with coriander and lemon sauce in @obsmagazine
City slickers: @paulhaywardjournalist on Pep's FA Cup win

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The Observer issue no. 12,232 Survival of the fittest
Larry, the Downing Street cat, has outlasted six prime ministers and counting

Featuring:
Starmer, Miliband and broken friendships in Westminster by Tom Baldwin
Rachel Sylvester: Streeting is standing and wants to rejoin the EU
Burnham faces Reform in the battle for Makerfield by Andrew Anthony

Plus:
The flower power of @hamishpowell: Meet the florist to the royals
@nigelslater's grilled scallops with coriander and lemon sauce in @obsmagazine
City slickers: @paulhaywardjournalist on Pep's FA Cup win

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The Observer issue no. 12,232 Survival of the fittest
Larry, the Downing Street cat, has outlasted six prime ministers and counting

Featuring:
Starmer, Miliband and broken friendships in Westminster by Tom Baldwin
Rachel Sylvester: Streeting is standing and wants to rejoin the EU
Burnham faces Reform in the battle for Makerfield by Andrew Anthony

Plus:
The flower power of @hamishpowell: Meet the florist to the royals
@nigelslater's grilled scallops with coriander and lemon sauce in @obsmagazine
City slickers: @paulhaywardjournalist on Pep's FA Cup win

Pick up a copy today, available nationwide. Subscribe to get a copy of The Observer delivered right to your door every week - link in bio.

The Observer issue no. 12,232 Survival of the fittest
Larry, the Downing Street cat, has outlasted six prime ministers and counting

Featuring:
Starmer, Miliband and broken friendships in Westminster by Tom Baldwin
Rachel Sylvester: Streeting is standing and wants to rejoin the EU
Burnham faces Reform in the battle for Makerfield by Andrew Anthony

Plus:
The flower power of @hamishpowell: Meet the florist to the royals
@nigelslater's grilled scallops with coriander and lemon sauce in @obsmagazine
City slickers: @paulhaywardjournalist on Pep's FA Cup win

Pick up a copy today, available nationwide. Subscribe to get a copy of The Observer delivered right to your door every week - link in bio.

The Observer issue no. 12,232 Survival of the fittest
Larry, the Downing Street cat, has outlasted six prime ministers and counting

Featuring:
Starmer, Miliband and broken friendships in Westminster by Tom Baldwin
Rachel Sylvester: Streeting is standing and wants to rejoin the EU
Burnham faces Reform in the battle for Makerfield by Andrew Anthony

Plus:
The flower power of @hamishpowell: Meet the florist to the royals
@nigelslater's grilled scallops with coriander and lemon sauce in @obsmagazine
City slickers: @paulhaywardjournalist on Pep's FA Cup win

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Did you know that less than 2% of the population will choose the next prime minister?

It's pretty much over for Keir Starmer, but what happens next? The Observer's Political Editor, Rachel Sylvester, breaks down the three stages of a leadership contest.

Read all of Rachel's reporting at our link in bio.

Introducing The Observer Culture Club.

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Wes Streeting has resigned as health secretary. While he stopped short of launching a leadership contest, it may only be a matter of time before he tries to oust Keir Starmer from No 10.

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Wes Streeting has resigned as health secretary. While he stopped short of launching a leadership contest, it may only be a matter of time before he tries to oust Keir Starmer from No 10.

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It's that time of the week, can you guess our clues to this week's Goldilocks?

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By Brendan Emmit Quigley
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The £5m gift that keeps giving.

Nigel Farage could be hit by two separate investigations into the undeclared £5m he received from Christopher Harborne, The Observer understands.

The parliamentary standards commissioner, Daniel Greenberg, is understood to have opened a probe into the Reform UK leader after the Guardian revealed he had received a seven-figure sum from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire.

Separately, The Observer understands that the Electoral Commission will confirm whether it is opening its own probe before the end of this week. The team is continuing to weigh up the extent to which the cash was used for Reform party purposes.

Earlier this year the standards commissioner found that Farage had breached parliamentary rules for failing to register 17 payments worth roughly £384,000 within the 28 days required.

A Reform UK spokesperson said: “Mr Farage’s office is in communications with the parliamentary commissioner for standards. He has always been clear that this was a personal, unconditional gift and no rules were broken. We look forward to this being put to bed once and for all.”

Greenberg said the breach could “reasonably be described as inadvertent”, meaning no further action was taken.

This time around things could be much more serious. Several individuals who have previously worked on standards inquiries told The Observer that the nature of the gift, as well as its size, could result in Farage receiving a sufficiently long enough suspension from parliament that it could trigger a byelection.

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Photograph by Toby Melville/AFP via Getty Images

The £5m gift that keeps giving.

Nigel Farage could be hit by two separate investigations into the undeclared £5m he received from Christopher Harborne, The Observer understands.

The parliamentary standards commissioner, Daniel Greenberg, is understood to have opened a probe into the Reform UK leader after the Guardian revealed he had received a seven-figure sum from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire.

Separately, The Observer understands that the Electoral Commission will confirm whether it is opening its own probe before the end of this week. The team is continuing to weigh up the extent to which the cash was used for Reform party purposes.

Earlier this year the standards commissioner found that Farage had breached parliamentary rules for failing to register 17 payments worth roughly £384,000 within the 28 days required.

A Reform UK spokesperson said: “Mr Farage’s office is in communications with the parliamentary commissioner for standards. He has always been clear that this was a personal, unconditional gift and no rules were broken. We look forward to this being put to bed once and for all.”

Greenberg said the breach could “reasonably be described as inadvertent”, meaning no further action was taken.

This time around things could be much more serious. Several individuals who have previously worked on standards inquiries told The Observer that the nature of the gift, as well as its size, could result in Farage receiving a sufficiently long enough suspension from parliament that it could trigger a byelection.

Read more at our link in bio.

✍️ Catherine Neilan

Photograph by Toby Melville/AFP via Getty Images