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The high finance drama used to tease and torment by making us care about scumbags. Now it’s genuinely thrilling and terrifying too

The high street temple of face gems and bad decisions gave us something TikTok never could: the freedom to get it wrong

Some familiar words we use in everyday English carry surprising traces of Malay, a language spoken widely across south-east Asia

In 1961, before the first human reached space, a chimpanzee was strapped into a rocket and sent into the unknown

An unusually early flu season was mistaken for an unusually severe one – raising questions about how risk is communicated and how unprepared the NHS remains

Being constantly reachable fuels our self-importance. But there is a better way

The American-Asian artist’s brutal killing ended a life of huge promise – but her voice could not be silenced

Brazil’s Inhotim Institute, a vast open-air museum, is part botanical garden, part moral maze

Mysteries, misdiagnoses and miracles marked the extraordinary life of New Zealand’s greatest writer. Yet she remains oddly undercelebrated in her own land

Gerry Gable, the dedicated, controversial founder of Searchlight magazine, had infiltrators and spies on his books in an intelligence war against racism

Rugby internationals in England sell tens of thousands of tickets, but almost no one follows the game at club level. What’s going on?

From Saturday Night Live to Star Wars, the 1970s reinvented Japan’s warrior elite – now the subject of a major exhibition – as pop mythology

Andy West, the man who inspired the hit new drama, on nature, change and the ‘terrible, dehumanising’ life behind bars

There is not a shred of sentimentality in Chloé Zhao’s magnificent adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel. This is where its brilliance lies

From the Beckhams to Eddie Murphy and Charlie Sheen, they promise truth but deliver reputation-laundering dressed up as intimacy

His disappointing Netflix special Mortality jabs at straw men and suggests a comedian slipping out of touch

A whole load of people fell for AI-based scams over the Xmas and New Year period. I really thought the future was meant to be better than this

It ought to be possible to dabble in guilty pleasures without ruining our lives in the process. But Brits don’t seem to know the meaning of ‘moderation’

How biology, physics and geography came to define the structure and range of the human voice

She was always adamant that she had done nothing heroic; that helping other people should be considered normal, not exceptional

A sleepy Alpine mountain retreat offered shelter for surrealists, LSD prophets and weary hippies

As bombs fall and homes are destroyed, the country’s vinyl collectors risk everything to save the music that tells their life stories

Lab-grown gametes could transform fertility treatment – but biology is proving far harder to hack than technology

It is the second most-spoken first language in the world, and opens doors across continents and careers – yet British schools still insist on teaching French

The veteran artist’s World on Fire Timeline maps a century of crisis and resistance

The great crime writer, who died 50 years ago, may have looked in later life like Miss Marple – but in her youth she was an intrepid world traveller with a passion for surfing

It predicts the universe with eerie precision, yet not even Nobel laureates can agree on how to interpret it

Newly super-rich Paris FC face Paris St Germain in France’s top flight for the first time in nearly 50 years. But can the city support two teams?

Chloé Zhao’s film is deeply felt and beautifully made – but misses the essence of what made the playwright so great

Lifelong devotees of John le Carré need not worry, the saga of Jonathan Pine is in safe hands with screenwriter David Farr