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Al Fayed ring
‘It’s as if the women were cattle’
Victims of a sex trafficking network said to rival Jeffrey Epstein’s tell Megan Clement why they are pinning their hopes on a new French investigation into the late Harrods owner
Travel
The Neo-Orientalists
Mykhailo Polyakov is one of a new crop of YouTube travellers crossing legal and ethical boundaries. He tells Xavier Greenwood he’s inspired by the conquistadors of the 15th and 16th century
Science
The new maestros
Science is usually considered to be the antithesis of art – clean and precise, not the result of instinct and craft. But virtuosic scientists are using new technologies to transform medicine, James Tapper writes
For today
The Israeli left
Erica Wagner
‘I’m trying to reclaim the word Zionist’
Human trafficking
Nazir Afzal
Fayed’s Harrods could be Britain’s Epstein Island
Words to consider
Kenan Malik
A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was more dispiriting
Last call
Tim Adams
The £3,000 Observer / Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism
Ideas
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Politics
Rachel Sylvester
The populists have the accelerator flat on the floor. Labour must go big or go home
Artificial intelligence
John Naughton
Amazon’s new AI writing culture is selling short our powers of productive thinking
Vanity fair
Evan Moffitt
Clavicular didn’t invent ‘looksmaxxing’ – gay men have been at it for a long time
Funny weather
Erica Wagner
As blizzards hit NYC, forget the doom – try snowscrolling
The Epstein files
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Alexi Mostrous
Watching JeffTube: the thousands of audio and video files recorded by Jeffrey Epstein
James Harding
After Andrew, the royal machine’s invisible men should face a reckoning
Amy Wallace
I knew Virginia Giuffre. I wish she was alive to see the power of her courage
Ada Barumé
