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To succeed, you have to forget a fundamental law of walking in the Pyrenees: what comes down must go up

The director of the first lady’s troubled new film was the centre of serious accusations of sexual assault

Engineers warned but managers pushed on and a preventable disaster unfolded live on the world’s TV screens

It Wittgenstein had written a Tractatus Logico Humurous, would we have learned anything from it?

How a Greek word for sanctuary became one of the most contested terms in modern English

How the widow of Martin Luther King Jr transformed mourning into a lifelong movement

One guilty purchase was all it took for the algorithm to start stalking me

The veteran presenter of the BBC Radio 4 show, which I co-created, is a tough act to follow, but Misha Glenny seems equal to the task

Predator: Badlands and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy prove that some franchises improve when they stop pandering to old fans

A lost duck dish is one of the reasons Iraqis are flocking to east London restaurant Logma

A seven-million-year-old fossil continues to complicate the story of when, and how, humans first walked on two legs

Exhibitions in London and Paris show a big-time director whose remarkable attention to detail comes from thinking small

Belgian idealist Paul Otlet imagined a global information network that would unite humanity. How right – and wrong – he was

Malik Al Nasir’s search for his roots began with a racist jam mascot - and ended with him tracing his heritage to both sides of a brutal trade

Gustav Trippe’s family say his letters show his doubts about the regime - and that he was murdered for writing them

Predator: Badlands and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy show some franchises improve when they stop pandering to ageing fans

A celebrity feud reminds us that there are bitter feuds in every family. And I should know…

At the heart of Park Chan-wook’s dark satire is the question of, when faced with the loss of status, how far will the modern man will go to restore it?

The Oscar-nominated star of Marty Supreme is either unbearably self-confident — or quietly hilarious

ROTUS: Receptionist of the United States is a searingly smart and unexpectedly dark piece of political satire. It’s also uncomfortably plausible

I found Greek mythology a bit stuffy and dull when I studied it at school, but now I get why so many people got hooked over the centuries

Despite its strong association with US sport and policing, the term ‘rookie’ has a complicated history

Dismissed by friends and launched in an era when women lacked the vote, Ocampo’s Sur magazine became a defining force in 20th-century literature and politics

The CEO of Nvidia has announced a breakthrough in AI systems for self-driving vehicles. Is this a cause for excitement or should we regard it as a warning?

The writer’s Reith Lecture, just reprinted, caused controversy in 1993 – but its conclusions seem oddly prescient

A joint exhibition at Tate Britain reveals the story of two geniuses who did some of their best work in the worst weather

Former Newsnight journalist Deborah Cohen’s new book explores how influencer culture and wellness marketing have created a boom market in dodgy health advice

Dehumanisation, obedience and lack of empathy: what drives people to commit the worst acts imaginable

A tournament meant to unite the world is fast becoming a pageant of American belligerence and a celebration of a bullying president’s life and work

Seventy years after Cortina first hosted, a very different Games returns to the town that once hosted Hemingway and Bond