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@DonLemonOfficial on his arrest: 'this is bigger than me'

Don Lemon is the host of The Don Lemon Show daily podcast, with topics spanning everything from social issues and race to pop-culture and current events. With three decades of award-winning journalism and storytelling behind him, he has covered countless global breaking news stories. Watch him in conversation with @karaswisher at @sirharrysummit.

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How Free is the “New” Venezuela?

A pro-democracy opposition leader, now in exile, on the post-Maduro landscape and what the international media got wrong. In conversation with @tinabrownfreshhell at @sirharrysummit, @leopoldolopezoficial, Venezuelan Opposition Leader and World Liberty Congress Co-founder, discusses his imprisonment.

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@donlemonofficial says he'd "consider" running for US President at the Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit during a lively chat with journalist @karaswisher.

The former CNN news anchor said that he "could run this country better than Donald Trump".

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🗞️ Today, Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel laureate, and global media leaders gather in London for Truth Tellers 2026.

Join the conversation on truth, trust, and journalism in a fragmenting infosphere.

Explore the agenda: sirharrysummit.org/agenda-2026/
🎥 Watch the livestream: sirharrysummit.org/watch/

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#sirharrysummit

🗞️ Today, Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel laureate, and global media leaders gather in London for Truth Tellers 2026.

Join the conversation on truth, trust, and journalism in a fragmenting infosphere.

Explore the agenda: sirharrysummit.org/agenda-2026/
🎥 Watch the livestream: sirharrysummit.org/watch/

Truth Tellers is brought to you by @tinabrownfreshhell, @Reuters and @durhamuniversity

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#sirharrysummit

🗞️ Today, Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel laureate, and global media leaders gather in London for Truth Tellers 2026.

Join the conversation on truth, trust, and journalism in a fragmenting infosphere.

Explore the agenda: sirharrysummit.org/agenda-2026/
🎥 Watch the livestream: sirharrysummit.org/watch/

Truth Tellers is brought to you by @tinabrownfreshhell, @Reuters and @durhamuniversity

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#sirharrysummit

🗞️ Today, Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel laureate, and global media leaders gather in London for Truth Tellers 2026.

Join the conversation on truth, trust, and journalism in a fragmenting infosphere.

Explore the agenda: sirharrysummit.org/agenda-2026/
🎥 Watch the livestream: sirharrysummit.org/watch/

Truth Tellers is brought to you by @tinabrownfreshhell, @Reuters and @durhamuniversity

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#sirharrysummit

🗞️ Today, Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel laureate, and global media leaders gather in London for Truth Tellers 2026.

Join the conversation on truth, trust, and journalism in a fragmenting infosphere.

Explore the agenda: sirharrysummit.org/agenda-2026/
🎥 Watch the livestream: sirharrysummit.org/watch/

Truth Tellers is brought to you by @tinabrownfreshhell, @Reuters and @durhamuniversity

Special thanks goes to our supporters: Postcode Lottery Group, @fordfoundation, @BBCnews, @observeruk and @cspan

#sirharrysummit

🗞️ Today, Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel laureate, and global media leaders gather in London for Truth Tellers 2026.

Join the conversation on truth, trust, and journalism in a fragmenting infosphere.

Explore the agenda: sirharrysummit.org/agenda-2026/
🎥 Watch the livestream: sirharrysummit.org/watch/

Truth Tellers is brought to you by @tinabrownfreshhell, @Reuters and @durhamuniversity

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#sirharrysummit

'Two years ago, I discovered that a family court judge had found – as fact – that a serving soldier had severely abused his wife. The couple were battling over custody of their child, and the man, I soon learned, was a member of the UK’s most elite, secretive and protected military unit – the special forces. He had terrorised his wife for eight years and, according to the judge, had “almost destroyed her”. But despite the findings of abuse, the judge awarded him extensive unsupervised contact with their young daughter.

'Matters in the family courts are usually secret. Journalists must apply for special permission to make any details public. But given the seriousness of the findings and the unsupervised contact order, coupled with the man’s role in the military, I applied to the family court to report on the case. I had no idea I would soon be battling not just the father, but the government too, as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) attempted to ban me from reporting a crucial detail: the father was in the special forces.

'So this investigation became two stories. The first is the wife’s, who I am calling Jenny, and how a family court judge failed to protect her and her daughter, despite acknowledging they had been seriously abused. The second is how the MoD tried to hide from the public that a special forces serviceman – whose abuse was known at a senior level within the military – was able to continue his employment with impunity, and then enjoy the active, and legally expensive, protection of the state when a journalist sought to expose it.'

Read the full investigation on our website - link in bio

✍️ @louisetickleauthor
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'Two years ago, I discovered that a family court judge had found – as fact – that a serving soldier had severely abused his wife. The couple were battling over custody of their child, and the man, I soon learned, was a member of the UK’s most elite, secretive and protected military unit – the special forces. He had terrorised his wife for eight years and, according to the judge, had “almost destroyed her”. But despite the findings of abuse, the judge awarded him extensive unsupervised contact with their young daughter.

'Matters in the family courts are usually secret. Journalists must apply for special permission to make any details public. But given the seriousness of the findings and the unsupervised contact order, coupled with the man’s role in the military, I applied to the family court to report on the case. I had no idea I would soon be battling not just the father, but the government too, as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) attempted to ban me from reporting a crucial detail: the father was in the special forces.

'So this investigation became two stories. The first is the wife’s, who I am calling Jenny, and how a family court judge failed to protect her and her daughter, despite acknowledging they had been seriously abused. The second is how the MoD tried to hide from the public that a special forces serviceman – whose abuse was known at a senior level within the military – was able to continue his employment with impunity, and then enjoy the active, and legally expensive, protection of the state when a journalist sought to expose it.'

Read the full investigation on our website - link in bio

✍️ @louisetickleauthor
📸 Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

'Two years ago, I discovered that a family court judge had found – as fact – that a serving soldier had severely abused his wife. The couple were battling over custody of their child, and the man, I soon learned, was a member of the UK’s most elite, secretive and protected military unit – the special forces. He had terrorised his wife for eight years and, according to the judge, had “almost destroyed her”. But despite the findings of abuse, the judge awarded him extensive unsupervised contact with their young daughter.

'Matters in the family courts are usually secret. Journalists must apply for special permission to make any details public. But given the seriousness of the findings and the unsupervised contact order, coupled with the man’s role in the military, I applied to the family court to report on the case. I had no idea I would soon be battling not just the father, but the government too, as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) attempted to ban me from reporting a crucial detail: the father was in the special forces.

'So this investigation became two stories. The first is the wife’s, who I am calling Jenny, and how a family court judge failed to protect her and her daughter, despite acknowledging they had been seriously abused. The second is how the MoD tried to hide from the public that a special forces serviceman – whose abuse was known at a senior level within the military – was able to continue his employment with impunity, and then enjoy the active, and legally expensive, protection of the state when a journalist sought to expose it.'

Read the full investigation on our website - link in bio

✍️ @louisetickleauthor
📸 Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

'Two years ago, I discovered that a family court judge had found – as fact – that a serving soldier had severely abused his wife. The couple were battling over custody of their child, and the man, I soon learned, was a member of the UK’s most elite, secretive and protected military unit – the special forces. He had terrorised his wife for eight years and, according to the judge, had “almost destroyed her”. But despite the findings of abuse, the judge awarded him extensive unsupervised contact with their young daughter.

'Matters in the family courts are usually secret. Journalists must apply for special permission to make any details public. But given the seriousness of the findings and the unsupervised contact order, coupled with the man’s role in the military, I applied to the family court to report on the case. I had no idea I would soon be battling not just the father, but the government too, as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) attempted to ban me from reporting a crucial detail: the father was in the special forces.

'So this investigation became two stories. The first is the wife’s, who I am calling Jenny, and how a family court judge failed to protect her and her daughter, despite acknowledging they had been seriously abused. The second is how the MoD tried to hide from the public that a special forces serviceman – whose abuse was known at a senior level within the military – was able to continue his employment with impunity, and then enjoy the active, and legally expensive, protection of the state when a journalist sought to expose it.'

Read the full investigation on our website - link in bio

✍️ @louisetickleauthor
📸 Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

'Two years ago, I discovered that a family court judge had found – as fact – that a serving soldier had severely abused his wife. The couple were battling over custody of their child, and the man, I soon learned, was a member of the UK’s most elite, secretive and protected military unit – the special forces. He had terrorised his wife for eight years and, according to the judge, had “almost destroyed her”. But despite the findings of abuse, the judge awarded him extensive unsupervised contact with their young daughter.

'Matters in the family courts are usually secret. Journalists must apply for special permission to make any details public. But given the seriousness of the findings and the unsupervised contact order, coupled with the man’s role in the military, I applied to the family court to report on the case. I had no idea I would soon be battling not just the father, but the government too, as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) attempted to ban me from reporting a crucial detail: the father was in the special forces.

'So this investigation became two stories. The first is the wife’s, who I am calling Jenny, and how a family court judge failed to protect her and her daughter, despite acknowledging they had been seriously abused. The second is how the MoD tried to hide from the public that a special forces serviceman – whose abuse was known at a senior level within the military – was able to continue his employment with impunity, and then enjoy the active, and legally expensive, protection of the state when a journalist sought to expose it.'

Read the full investigation on our website - link in bio

✍️ @louisetickleauthor
📸 Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

The Observer walk with #JamesTimpson

As a child, James Timpson would wait outside Styal prison while his mum, who fostered children whose mothers were inside, brought them in to visit. “We’d sit in the car, argue, and listen to ABBA,” he recalls. “I was always curious about what was happening beyond the walls.”

That curiosity shaped a career: from hiring ex-offenders at his family’s key-cutting and shoe-repair business @timpsonuk to insisting “reducing reoffending” be at the heart of his role as prisons minister in Keir Starmer’s government.

On a walk around Styal, he reflects on second chances, supporting women in custody, and why rehabilitation, not punishment, should define the system.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Observer walk with #JamesTimpson

As a child, James Timpson would wait outside Styal prison while his mum, who fostered children whose mothers were inside, brought them in to visit. “We’d sit in the car, argue, and listen to ABBA,” he recalls. “I was always curious about what was happening beyond the walls.”

That curiosity shaped a career: from hiring ex-offenders at his family’s key-cutting and shoe-repair business @timpsonuk to insisting “reducing reoffending” be at the heart of his role as prisons minister in Keir Starmer’s government.

On a walk around Styal, he reflects on second chances, supporting women in custody, and why rehabilitation, not punishment, should define the system.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Observer walk with #JamesTimpson

As a child, James Timpson would wait outside Styal prison while his mum, who fostered children whose mothers were inside, brought them in to visit. “We’d sit in the car, argue, and listen to ABBA,” he recalls. “I was always curious about what was happening beyond the walls.”

That curiosity shaped a career: from hiring ex-offenders at his family’s key-cutting and shoe-repair business @timpsonuk to insisting “reducing reoffending” be at the heart of his role as prisons minister in Keir Starmer’s government.

On a walk around Styal, he reflects on second chances, supporting women in custody, and why rehabilitation, not punishment, should define the system.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Observer walk with #JamesTimpson

As a child, James Timpson would wait outside Styal prison while his mum, who fostered children whose mothers were inside, brought them in to visit. “We’d sit in the car, argue, and listen to ABBA,” he recalls. “I was always curious about what was happening beyond the walls.”

That curiosity shaped a career: from hiring ex-offenders at his family’s key-cutting and shoe-repair business @timpsonuk to insisting “reducing reoffending” be at the heart of his role as prisons minister in Keir Starmer’s government.

On a walk around Styal, he reflects on second chances, supporting women in custody, and why rehabilitation, not punishment, should define the system.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

The Observer walk with #JamesTimpson

As a child, James Timpson would wait outside Styal prison while his mum, who fostered children whose mothers were inside, brought them in to visit. “We’d sit in the car, argue, and listen to ABBA,” he recalls. “I was always curious about what was happening beyond the walls.”

That curiosity shaped a career: from hiring ex-offenders at his family’s key-cutting and shoe-repair business @timpsonuk to insisting “reducing reoffending” be at the heart of his role as prisons minister in Keir Starmer’s government.

On a walk around Styal, he reflects on second chances, supporting women in custody, and why rehabilitation, not punishment, should define the system.

Read more at the link in bio.

Photographs by @aolmosphoto for The Observer
Illustration by Ellie Wintour

@liams_profile went viral after the @londonmarathon.

Liam ran the marathon to raise funds for @younglivesvscancer in memory of his nine-year-old niece, Freya, who was diagnosed with a rare, inoperable brain tumour in January 2025 and passed away last August.

After finishing the race, he was filmed on a Tube platform being cheered on by strangers, a moment that has since been viewed millions of times.

Speaking to The Observer, Liam reflected on his whirlwind week.

Read his full piece via the link in bio, where you can also donate to Liam’s marathon fundraiser for Young Lives vs Cancer.

Why does everyone have hayfever now?

Over the last 20 years, the number of people suffering with the condition has risen by 33% in the UK, explains Madeleine Parr. Climate change is a major reason why you may now be experiencing hay fever for the first time, with the key season, and its uncomfortable symptoms lasting two weeks longer than in the 1990s.

The Observer issue no. 12,230: A love of life
Attenborough at 100 by Simon Barnes

Featuring:
Golders Green attack: @evawiseman and @keirstarmer respond
London Marathon souvenir edition: 48 pages of every finisher, every time, every record
In O, the @obsmagazine, food by @nigelslater and @georginahayden and @hannahcrosb on palomas

Plus:
A pep in their step: Arsenal fire warning shot to City’s title challenge
Eels and ladders in Observers needed
Canal Street Blues: @russelltdavies66's latest drama sounds the alarm for a community under threat, writes @ericawgnr for @obsnewreview
@megsstalter is the Anti-Celebrity for this week’s @obsmagazine, interview by @evawiseman

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. 12,230: A love of life
Attenborough at 100 by Simon Barnes

Featuring:
Golders Green attack: @evawiseman and @keirstarmer respond
London Marathon souvenir edition: 48 pages of every finisher, every time, every record
In O, the @obsmagazine, food by @nigelslater and @georginahayden and @hannahcrosb on palomas

Plus:
A pep in their step: Arsenal fire warning shot to City’s title challenge
Eels and ladders in Observers needed
Canal Street Blues: @russelltdavies66's latest drama sounds the alarm for a community under threat, writes @ericawgnr for @obsnewreview
@megsstalter is the Anti-Celebrity for this week’s @obsmagazine, interview by @evawiseman

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. 12,230: A love of life
Attenborough at 100 by Simon Barnes

Featuring:
Golders Green attack: @evawiseman and @keirstarmer respond
London Marathon souvenir edition: 48 pages of every finisher, every time, every record
In O, the @obsmagazine, food by @nigelslater and @georginahayden and @hannahcrosb on palomas

Plus:
A pep in their step: Arsenal fire warning shot to City’s title challenge
Eels and ladders in Observers needed
Canal Street Blues: @russelltdavies66's latest drama sounds the alarm for a community under threat, writes @ericawgnr for @obsnewreview
@megsstalter is the Anti-Celebrity for this week’s @obsmagazine, interview by @evawiseman

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. 12,230: A love of life
Attenborough at 100 by Simon Barnes

Featuring:
Golders Green attack: @evawiseman and @keirstarmer respond
London Marathon souvenir edition: 48 pages of every finisher, every time, every record
In O, the @obsmagazine, food by @nigelslater and @georginahayden and @hannahcrosb on palomas

Plus:
A pep in their step: Arsenal fire warning shot to City’s title challenge
Eels and ladders in Observers needed
Canal Street Blues: @russelltdavies66's latest drama sounds the alarm for a community under threat, writes @ericawgnr for @obsnewreview
@megsstalter is the Anti-Celebrity for this week’s @obsmagazine, interview by @evawiseman

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. 12,230: A love of life
Attenborough at 100 by Simon Barnes

Featuring:
Golders Green attack: @evawiseman and @keirstarmer respond
London Marathon souvenir edition: 48 pages of every finisher, every time, every record
In O, the @obsmagazine, food by @nigelslater and @georginahayden and @hannahcrosb on palomas

Plus:
A pep in their step: Arsenal fire warning shot to City’s title challenge
Eels and ladders in Observers needed
Canal Street Blues: @russelltdavies66's latest drama sounds the alarm for a community under threat, writes @ericawgnr for @obsnewreview
@megsstalter is the Anti-Celebrity for this week’s @obsmagazine, interview by @evawiseman

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.

How does Coventry feel about its return to the @premierleague?

‘It’s life or death, it means the world’ say longtime supporters. The Observer visited the newly promoted team’s hometown to speak to locals as their beloved @coventrycityfcofficial beat Watford today. From butchers selling out Sky Blue sausages to fireworks, livelong supporters and young fans alike are celebrating the return to the Premier League after 25 years.