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Hamish Powell

Creating Eden

The ‘sexy florist’ has done flowers for Vanity Fair, Charlie xcx’s wedding and King Charles and David Beckham’s garden at the Chelsea Flower Show – and his celebrity keeps growing

By Hayley Maitland

Football

Saints and sinners

It was all going so well for Southampton until a phone camera clicked beside a tree near Middlesbrough, and someone’s smart idea began to look dumb. Paul Hayward takes stock of ‘Spygate’

Labour

Gilt trip

Andy Burnham’s decision to run in the Makerfield byelection with an eye on Downing Street has sent 10-year bond yields to their highest level since 2008, Ben Zaranko explains

AI toys

Bots for tots

Psychologists are sounding the alarm about new toys powered by chatbots which could put children in danger and are not covered by the Online Safety Act, Patricia Clarke reports

For today

Film

Vanessa Thorpe

Sun, sea and sexy slashers at Cannes film festival

Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘‘Fakery is now the coin of the realm. Underlying it is a sense we’re all hustlers’

The Observer Walk

Basia Cummings

Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘‘Fakery is now the coin of the realm. Underlying it is a sense we’re all hustlers’

What King Lear tells us about assisted dying

Drama

Edward Docx

What King Lear tells us about assisted dying

Matt Majendie

Inside Red Bull’s fight to keep hold of Max Verstappen

Photography

The circus family gets back on the road

Nell and Toti Gifford shared a dream: to run their own circus. Following an acrimonious succession battle after Nell’s death, the show returns for its 26th year