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Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar is a queasy look at the wellness industry

This series, based on a real-life fraud peddling diets to cure cancer, explores how social media makes fools of us…

I’m Still Here: a powerful story of the human spirit under dictatorship

This Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of Brazil’s missing dissident former congressman.

I barely recognise the AI version of me

According to ChatGPT, my writing is typified by obsessions with pizza, lattes and “semantics”.

Eimear McBride’s literature of desire

The Irish author’s exhilarating fourth novel, The City Changes Its Face, proves there is nobody writing sex like her.

I am a man who orders combs when drunk

For £14, I’ve bought something that will remain ornamental – unless I turn it into a kazoo, which will not…

A diamond ring is one of the worst investments you can make

Nothing, not even a brand-new car or a designer dress, depreciates as quickly as a diamond.

Roses are the wrong pick for Valentine’s Day

Out-of-season, flown-in flowers heavy with pesticide are an odd way to show you care.

The problem with “open secrets”

Also this week: Netflix tackles the Corby toxic waste scandal and polyamory admin.

Judith Butler Q&A: “I’d like more joy, more music, a new political regime”

The philosopher and gender theorist on Hegel, Kafka, and getting lost at the circus.

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Euan Blair: “Education does not only happen on campus”

The tech start-up founder – and son of Tony Blair – on the value of apprenticeships and what his father’s…

Letter of the week: Bring in the big guns

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Whiplash on the Labour benches

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Richard Dawson’s songs of England

On his new album The End of the Middle, the cult singer explores a nation defined by loss and alcoholism,…

From Edmund White to Philip Marsden: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Threads of Empire by Dorothy Armstrong and Beartooth by Callan Wink.

Kyoto gives voice to the urgency of the climate crisis

Soho Place’s perceptive and absorbing production shrewdly reminds its audience that there is nothing more exciting than saving the world.

The White Lotus is as good and twisted as ever

Thanks to our sharp-eyed puppetmaster Mike White, this third series is an intensely satisfying slow burn.

Labour’s belated bid for definition

Keir Starmer has discovered that technocratic management is not enough – his party needs political leadership.

Politics in the age of the chiefs of staff

Advisers like Dominic Cummings and Morgan McSweeney might become the story – but real power always lies with the leader.

The British public was wise to Labour’s deportation videos

Also this week: Rupert Murdoch charms the White House, while the Maga-sphere’s assaults on US media intensify.