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The emails
Mountbatten-Windsor fed information to his contacts while touring the world at taxpayers’ expense as trade envoy, Alexi Mostrous and Jon Ungoed-Thomas report

The House of York
The most damning royal takedown since Spare paints former prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson as venal, grifting and obsessed by sex, Tanya Gold writes

The Sensemaker
Police have taken Mountbatten-Windsor into custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The 13th-century common law offence has a high bar for conviction, Xavier Greenwood reports

The News Meeting
With Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in police custody, The Observer’s Giles Whittell, Rachel Sylvester, and John Simpson join royal

Media censorship
Stephen Armstrong

Reality check
Sarah Manavis

Staycations
Tim Leunig

Fashion
Jo Jones
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Epstein scandal
Will Hutton

Debt
Peter Hain

Jesse Jackson 1941-2026
Matthew Barzun

Anatomy of Britain
Martha Gill
Further reading
Your essential guide from The Observer’s books desk

Further listening
From Springsteen to Swift via Charli XCX many singers have found a musical muse in novels

Further watching
Jack Thorne’s chilling take on a tale of boyhood cruelty and the Detectorists’ Mackenzie Crook strikes gold
