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I find it hard to think he didn’t hear and see things that made him feel he had to get Epstein out of his life

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The dissident artist has been targeted by China – but On Censorship reveals a wider world of control

Smoking and drinking might be bad for the health, but sitting around with people who see the world differently can have profoundly beneficial effects

When leaders meet at Munich, they must start the process of European rearmament in a way that takes account of the threat from Putin – and Trump

How a genuinely old dialect word became part of a made-up East Anglian pub game

How the creator of Peanuts created humour from loneliness and sadness

Viciously abused by her father, Ghislaine Maxwell made the horrible mistake of falling for a sexual predator

The former iCarly actor’s debut novel, Half His Age, rewrites the story of an age-gap relationship in crude, embarrassing, brilliant style

An icon’s death marks the end of the era of brilliant individuals who lived like deities

What happens to real women when men get used to girlfriends they can design and silence?

With the classics now available without pops and clicks, today’s musicians are engaged in the unequal task of battling the past

The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstein

The great Dane who ignored a teacher’s instructions to throw her paintbox into the sea

While older Britons have their final salary pensions and the triple lock, young people today can’t even afford to start a family. That could be pushing the country towards political disaster

A narcissistic trend is teaching young men the worst lesson women were ever taught: your appearance is everything

The Baftas are coming. The Oscars are next. And yet again, they’ll reward hopelessly middlebrow films that honour the ruling ideas of the ruling class

The paedophile fixer’s depraved, narcissistic, super-rich circle have come to believe that they are beyond mortality and morals

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Beliefs about equality are colliding with a constitutional ban on female conscription as a drive to increase Bundeswehr numbers ramps up

News reports that emerged from outside Iran put the number of dead protesters in the tens of thousands. Iranians inside the country, who took part in the demonstrations, tell a very different story

In the Kenyan mountains, a collection of colonial-era party houses is slowly rotting away. What should a nation do with the remains of its imperial past?

Elon Musk is getting excited about a new social media platform for AI systems. For once – unusually – he might not be completely in the wrong

Gustavo Petro went to the White House as Trump’s South American enemy No 1. But things turned out a little different than expected

The actor talks gangsters from New Jersey to Washington DC – and why he feels ‘sick’ about the state of his country

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Going out every night, dancing around the flat listening to Bad Bunny, the cinema – none of it does any good. Perhaps the secret to dealing with seasonal misery is just to lean into it

The Puerto Rican’s halftime show appearance riled MAGA – but impressed everyone else

People in autocratic and chaotic countries believe in their governments more than we do in ours - it’s about feeling that your children will be better off

Macmillan was a real statesman, while Starmer is a failed party manager. Their shared flaw is that neither were curious enough

Kubrick made elite depravity look operatic. The Epstein files show the real thing as vile and vacuous