Germany forgets its past Friedrich Merz is failing, and memories are fading ✍️ @GWhittell bit.ly/4hoYHaB

Commit to Jodrell Bank, Burnham challenged, as its future is again called into question Fury over funding announcement just 10 days after the prime minister told parliament that the Cheshire telescope is not under threat of closure ✍️ @GWhittell bit.ly/3SLRBot

Big-serving Shelton one win from slice of US Open history bit.ly/3Vshs5x

The Coca-Cola factory in Morpeth, Northumberland, sits above a natural underground reservoir of fresh water. It produces enough bottled water every year to fill 30 Olympic-size swimming pools. But The Observer can reveal Coca-Cola is paying the Environment Agency (EA) just £6,070 in annual charges for a licence to extract up to 674m litres of water for its production line at Morpeth. It extracted about 125m litres last year. @JonUngoedThomas investigates bit.ly/4wNYi7D

‘To hold his drawings again was the most precious gift I could ever receive’ When Sara Alqataa’s architect husband was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza, his artworks seemed lost for ever – until a British aid worker embarked on a daring rescue mission ✍️ @cowleskatherine bit.ly/4ftWk5c

In Britain, modern populism has many faces but few solutions bit.ly/48UhuXT

A famous fishmonger says politicians aren’t reading the room, just like ten years ago, reports @GWhittell A protest about weights and measurements 26 years ago set the table for the Brexit vote. Now, its supporters say Starmer’s government is about to get served bit.ly/4te73Wz

Starmer must be bold on rejoining the EU bit.ly/42Kgzpq

'Rogan sees ibogaine as the answer to an opioid epidemic that has killed more than 600,000 Americans in the past 10 years' @GWhittell reports that Gabon is being asked to grant the US access to a hallucinogen that can banish opioid addiction and could heal the Maga rift bit.ly/4vHXAcm