The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister papers The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly, whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993, it takes a social liberal or social democratic line on most issues. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.
History
Origins
The first issue, published on 4 December 1791 by W.S. Bourne, was the world's first Sunday newspaper. Believing that the paper would be a means of wealth, Bourne instead soon found himself facing debts of nearly £1,600. Though early editions purported editorial independence, Bourne attempted to cut his losses and sell the title to the government. When this failed, Bourne's brother (a wealthy businessman) made an offer to the government, which also refused to buy the paper but agreed to subsidise it in return for influence over its editorial content. As a result, the paper soon took a strong line against radicals such as Thomas Paine, Francis Burdett and Joseph Priestley.
The Observer (disambiguation)
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Periodicals
The Observer (Cape newspaper)
The Observer of South African Affairs was a Port Elizabeth based newspaper of the Cape Colony, that was published from 6 July 1876. In the 1880s it underwent a series of name changes, to the Port Elizabeth Spectator (May 1886 - September 1888), and the Spectator and Evening Mail (September 1888 - January 1890).
It took an extreme pro-imperialist "jingoist" stance and strongly opposed the "Cape Liberal Tradition" that was centred on Cape Town and dominated Cape politics at the time. The Observer, together with the Grahamstown Journal of Robert Godlonton, championed the reactionary British frontier settler lobby in pushing for harsher expansionist policies against the neighbouring Xhosa people. It called for restrictions on the multi-racial Cape Qualified Franchise and for a separate, British-dominated, Eastern Cape Colony.
The Observer ran a series of satirical cartoons, starting with its first edition on 6 July 1876. After the 27 June 1878 edition, the resident cartoonist, Charles J Barber, moved to the rival Port Elizabeth publication, The Cape Hornet and was replaced by William Howard Schröder who had just moved from the Lantern newspaper of Cape Town. The cartoons attacked both the neighbouring Xhosa people, and the liberal Cape government which was restricting the settlers' expansion into Xhosa land.
Podcasts:
Observer, The
ALBUMS
- Trip Outside EP released: 1997
Niney the Observer
ALBUMS
- Roots With Quality released: 2009
- Born in Jamaica released: 2009
- Niney & Friends: Blood & Fire released: 2005
- Sledgehammer Dub in the Streets of Jamaica released: 2003
- Bring the Dub Come released: 2003
- At King Tubby's Dub Plate Specials 1973 - 1975 released: 2002
- Head Shot released: 2002
- Station Underground Report released: 2001
- Microphone Attack 1974-78 released: 2001
- Niney and Friends: Blood and Fire 1971-1972 released: 1997
- Observer Attack Dub released: 1994
- Space Flight Dub released: 1989
- Dennis Brown In Dub released:
Roots With Quality
Released 2009- Blood and Fire
- Whole Lot of Fire
- The Coming of Jah (feat. Niney)
- Rasta Bandwagon
- Rascal Man (False Rasta)
- Rasta No Born Yah (extended)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / Clap the Barber
- The Way to Reason
- Bring the Couchie Home
- I Need Your Loving
- Rock On
- Silver Words
- My Baby Is Gone
- Here I Come
- Jah Come Here
- Warrior
- Whip Them Jah
- Every Natty
- Weeping
- Sufferation
Niney & Friends: Blood & Fire
Released 2005- Blood and Fire
- Mr. Brown's Coffin
- Bawlin' for Mercy
- Psalms 9 to Keep in Mind
- Beg in the Gutter
- Rasta Band Wagon
- When Jah Speak
- Message to the Ungodly
- The Coming of Jah
- Can't Enter Zion
- Aily and Ailaloo
- Keep on Pushing
- Beardman Feast
- Silver Words
- Mr. Finnegan
- Rasta No Born Yah
- Westbound Train
- Train From the West
- Inbound Train
- Cassandra
- Wild Goose Chase
- Bring the Couchie Come
- Leggo the Wrong
- Tribulation Dub
Microphone Attack 1974-78
Released 2001- Train From the West
- Ride On - Wild Goose Chase (12" mix)
- Whole Lot a Fire (12" mix)
- Four Sevens
- 6 Dead 19 Gone a Jail
- Flat Foot Hustling
- Jah Come Here
- Fresh and Clean
- Step on the Dragon
- Sister Maggie Breast
- Native Land
- Water Rate
- Point Blank Observer Style
- Camp Road Skanking
- Roots Man (Observer mix version)
- Jah Is My Light - Wicked Eat Dirt (12" mix)
- Whip Them Jah (12" mix)
- So Long Rastafari
Niney and Friends: Blood and Fire 1971-1972
Released 1997- Blood and Fire
- Brimstone and Fire
- Psalm 9 to Keep in Mind
- Fire Bunn
- Aily and Ailaloo
- Reggaematic
- Beardman Feast
- Keep on Pushing (feat. Niney)
- Ital Correction
- Rascal Man
- Rasta Band Waggon
- When Jah Speak
- The Coming of Jah
- Message of the Ungodley
- In the Gutter
- Hiding by the Riverside
- 1234567 Live It Up
- Obeserving the Ave
- Everyday Music
- Swinging Along
- Mud and Water
- Lightning and Thunder
- My Baby Is Gone
- You Must Believe Me
Dennis Brown In Dub
- Land of the Father
- Fire From the Observer
- Lock and Key
- Youth Man
- Sir Nineys Rock
- Worthless Trap
- No Mercy
- Take a Dub
- Dubbing With the Observer
- Thief
- Pay the Rent
- Revelation Fulfill
- Come Dub
- Jam Down
- Fire From the Observer Station
- Mischievous Dub
- Mr. D Brown Dub
- Dub Around the World
- Silver Bullet
- One in the World Style
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The Observer
by: Haggard"I do not feel obliged to believe
that the same God who has endowed us
with sadness, reason and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use"
So all the stars
Will guide us on our way
The Sextant as a leader
Has duration for all days
Look at the amazing skies
In long and profund discoveries
With a strong and a clear mind he's encrypting
More secrets of astronomy
In endless nights
He entirely observes the skies
His publications will change the world
Galileo Galilei
Only what my eyes will see, I will believe!
Day and night - separated by the light
In Pisa he's required
To teach the theory
That the stars and all the planets
Revolve around the earth
But he believed
In a different truth
The heliocentric one
Proposed by Kopernikus
A new age has begun
The stolen sun
Makes their fear rise
And man will sacrifice
The moon is the reason why
Look at the amazing skies
In long and profound discoveries
With a strong and a clear mind he's encrypting
More secrets of astronomy
In endless nights
He entirely observes the skies
His publications will change the world
Galileo Galilei
And all the servants of the cross - they will deny
Will deny the starlight
In Pisa he's required
To teach the theory
That the stars and all the planets
Revolve around the earth
But he believed
In a different truth
The heliocentric one
Proposed by Kopernikus
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