The ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baton Rouge. Project 2025 would bolster the oil and gas industry and gut the Environmental Protection Agency. Photograph: Barry Lewis/In Pictures/Getty ImagesThe ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baton Rouge. Project 2025 would bolster the oil and gas industry and gut the Environmental Protection Agency. Photograph: Barry Lewis/In Pictures/Getty ImagesBig oil uncoveredClimate crisis This article is more than 5 months old‘Project 2025’: plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican presidentThis article is more than 5 months oldRightwing groups penned a conservative wish list of proposals for the next conservative president to gut environmental protections

Gallipoli at sunset, province of Lecce, Italy. Photograph: AlamyGallipoli at sunset, province of Lecce, Italy. Photograph: AlamyTop 20sItaly holidaysWith the five-day quarantine requirement for travellers from the UK now lifted, we pick gorgeous affordable hotels, villas and farm stays on the coast, mountains and islands COASTTenuta Uva Rosa, PugliaOver on the other side of Puglia’s heel of Italy, the waters of the Ionian Sea are crystal clear, especially off the beaches either side of the ancient island port of Gallipoli, linked to the mainland by a 16th-century stone bridge.

De La SoulObituaryDavid Jolicoeur obituaryFounding member of the US hip-hop trio De La Soul who performed under the stage name Trugoy the Dove De La Soul’s debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising (1989), was a milestone in the history of rap. Arriving at a time when the medium was widely regarded as a forum for violence and rage, thanks to confrontational albums such as NWA’s Straight Outta Compton and Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, De La Soul presented a more accessible alternative.

Illustration: Lyndon Hayes/The Observer Illustration: Lyndon Hayes/The ObserverLunch with...ElbowInterviewGuy Garvey: ‘Diana Rigg was so brave – and she was a hoot. Camparis at three every day’Tim AdamsElbow’s frontman on his mother-in-law’s death, the upside of therapy – and finally learning to love sushi Up until pretty recently, Guy Garvey says, he couldn’t have sat very comfortably in a place like this. We are in Roka in Charlotte Street in London’s West End, flagship of the discreetly expensive chain of Japanese restaurants, where attentive staff bring artful platters of exquisitely sliced fish and explain precisely in which order you might best consume them.

Observer book of the weekBiography booksReviewA lively, affectionate but far from adulatory new biography of the playwright marks the 50th anniversary of his death and draws on unpublished letters and diaries to expose a painful private life obscured by success As a 12-year-old child actor, Noël Coward featured in a dance number at the Savoy theatre in London playing the part of a mushroom. A photograph of him in his fungal finery – “grey silk skin tights, a large grey silk hat like a gargantuan muffin, and a diaphanous frill round my middle” – was put on display by his proud mother at whichever house the family were billeted in.

Paul Walker This article is more than 10 years oldPaul Walker: police rule out 'second car' involvement in crash investigationThis article is more than 10 years oldLA police reviewing the death of the Fast & Furious star in a car crash have ruled out theories another vehicle was involved Fast & Furious 7 delayed but still going ahead after Paul Walker death Paul Walker obituary Police in Los Angeles have rebutted a so-called "

PolandPoland police arrest fugitive MPs as tensions rise between new and old governmentsTwo men had taken refuge in Andrzej Duda’s presidential palace after dispute Polish police have arrested two politicians convicted of abuse of power who had taken refuge for hours in the palace of President Andrzej Duda, in a dramatic escalation of a standoff between the new and previous governments. Duda had welcomed the members of the former ruling party into the presidential palace as police went to their homes to arrest them.

Stephen Keshi is one of two people to win the Cup of Nations as a player and manager, and the only black African ever to coach at a World Cup. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty ImagesStephen Keshi is one of two people to win the Cup of Nations as a player and manager, and the only black African ever to coach at a World Cup. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty ImagesNigeria football teamThe former Nigeria and Togo manager, who died on Tuesday evening aged just 54, was, at international level, the finest African coach of his generationThe first time I met Stephen Keshi was in 2002.

Subway Hare, 2022 by Seymour Licht.Subway Hare, 2022 by Seymour Licht.The big picturePhotographyEvery Halloween for 20 years, Seymour Licht went underground to photograph New York’s ghouls and monsters, on their way to and from parties More than 20 years ago the photographer Seymour Licht was on an assignment to capture images of the annual Halloween pageant in Greenwich Village. The floats and crowds at the carnival were hard to make sense of visually, and Licht’s eye was instead drawn to the individual ghouls and goblins he had seen on the subway getting there.

FictionReviewA gritty debut novel set in a society without safety nets"Eric's … on the lamest power trip in the world – the decider of how long it takes for me to get a tampon," says Anais, a 15-year-old stuck in a care home, as she waits for a social worker to comply with her urgent request. What Fagan depicts in her debut novel, The Panopticon, is a society in which people don't just fall through the net – there is no net.