Social media
Epstein and the algorithm
Everything can be turned into a meme, the internet has discovered, including Jeffrey Epstein. Lily Isaacs explains how the late sex offender became TikTok’s latest trend
Environment
Heart of Darkness
The clean power revolution in the west has come at an extraordinary human cost in central Africa. Jeevan Vasagar reviews a new book that maps out how
Beauty
Death becomes her
It's never been easier to improve the way you look – as long as you have enough money. Now, Eva Wiseman writes, you can even pay to get injected with dead people’s fat
For today
Waymo
Jonathan Lewis
Will we see driverless cars on the streets of London this year?
Politics
Catherine Neilan
McSweeney ‘asked if Mandelson US embassy role could be part-time’
Epstein files
Tanya Gold
Who was Jeffrey Epstein, really?
Hitting a mulligan
Martha Gill
Golf courses are declining, we’re in a housing crisis. Here’s a thought…
TateGPT
AI manosphere
Our reporter was given disturbing advice by a ChatGPT-hosted bot that mimics Andrew Tate. There are more than 150,000 user-generated ‘custom GPTs’, some of which produce misogynistic and racist content – and appear to condone violence against women
World Cancer Day
Michelle Mitchell
The national cancer plan is a welcome step. Now we need action
Chris Power
Siddhartha Mukherjee: ‘This disease is intrinsically linked to panic and fear’
James Tapper
Cancer patients to keep on earning with the boss’s help
David Barnett
‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news’
The Epstein files
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Assisted dying
James Tapper
The peers whose long debates could kill the assisted dying bill
Catherine Neilan
Filibustering Lords seek to slow-talk bill to its doom
Esther Rantzen
It’s too late to help me, but please, lords, spare others this needless pain
Melanie Reid
