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Reform

Great British ICE

Nigel Farage’s party is planning a ‘deportation command’ modelled on the US agency that is unleashing Trump’s immigration crackdown. But it would be costly, inefficient and face legal challenges

By Fred Harter

Islamic State

Mass escape

Thousands of people accused of Isis links have escaped al-Hol camp in Syria, including Brits who have been stripped of their citizenship. It’s unclear where they are or have left to go, Isabel Coles reports

Art

The queen of candour

Forty years of Tracey Emin’s tortured, trailblazing work is gathered in a major retrospective that finds the riotous artist in search of past glories, Laura Cumming writes

Formula One

Propaganda vehicles

Drive to Survive has transformed F1’s popularity. But it is ‘99% entertainment, 1% racing’. We prefer well-packaged fantasy to the truth, George Simms writes

For today

El Mencho’s death has put Mexico into a state of violent uncertainty

Cartels

Thomas Graham

El Mencho’s death has put Mexico into a state of violent uncertainty

A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was more dispiriting

BBC

Kenan Malik

A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was more dispiriting

The populists have the accelerator flat on the floor. Labour must go big or go home

Politics

Rachel Sylvester

The populists have the accelerator flat on the floor. Labour must go big or go home

The battle for Warner Bros is a fight for the soul of Hollywood

Cinema vs streaming

Stephen Armstrong

The battle for Warner Bros is a fight for the soul of Hollywood

The Epstein scandal

Andrew’s invisible men

The monarchy could have tried to find out the truth about the former prince. Instead, it bought into his lies and it peddled them. The royal machine’s unseen operators have serious questions to answer

The Epstein files

Alexi Mostrous

Watching JeffTube: the thousands of audio and video files recorded by Jeffrey Epstein

Tanya Gold

With Andrew’s fall, the royal family’s spell over the public has been broken

Amy Wallace

I knew Virginia Giuffre. I wish she was alive to see the power of her courage

Andrew Rawnsley

The Peter Mandelson scandal has turned ‘No drama Starmer’ into a lurid soap opera

Ideas

The BBC wins no marks for its production at the Baftas

A bad edit

Seun Matiluko

The BBC wins no marks for its production at the Baftas

The AI threat is far greater than job losses

Artificial intelligence

Kenan Malik

The AI threat is far greater than job losses

There’s no joy an idiot with a smartphone can’t kill

Digital distractions

Frank Skinner

There’s no joy an idiot with a smartphone can’t kill

As blizzards hit NYC, forget the doom – try snowscrolling

Funny weather

Erica Wagner

As blizzards hit NYC, forget the doom – try snowscrolling

Rape culture

Unspeakable truths

In her memoir, Gisèle Pelicot examines the language of sex and violence, in the bedroom, the chatroom and the courtroom. She insists that the way men talk about women always matters