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The House of Windsor

Chaos reigns

Alarm bells had been ringing for years over Andrew’s trade envoy role and relationship with Epstein, but palace insiders say their hands were tied. Now the royal family are being asked how much they knew – and even the late Queen may not escape the blame

By Richard Palmer and Rachel Sylvester

Tariffs

Trump v Supreme Court

Stung by a judicial rebuke, the US president has called conservative justices he appointed ‘fools and lapdogs’ and applied new blanket tariffs of 15%, Hugh Tomlinson reports

Ukraine

A grim anniversary

Four years since the start of Russia’s invasion, the people of the once occupied city of Kherson remain defiant, united and hopeful in the face of constant drone strikes, Liz Cookman reports

Winter Olympics

Golden girls

American Olympians Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu, Milan’s latest superstars, have become political pawns forced to speak for the wrongs of their nation, Jessy Parker Humphreys writes

Mountbatten-Windsor

Alexi Mostrous

King grants police access to all files, despite courtiers’ cover-up fears

Tim Adams

Images that chart the downfall of a prince who willingly sold his soul

Amy Wallace

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

David Olusoga

No one anticipated an easy reign for Charles III but this mess will go down in history

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

Ideas

This royal crisis is the moment to redefine Britain’s monarchy

Andrew

Will Hutton

This royal crisis is the moment to redefine Britain’s monarchy

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

The House of Windsor

Tanya Gold

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

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

Distractions

Frank Skinner

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

National

Byelection

Rory Smith

Fear and loathing in Gorton and Denton

Complaints resurface over Romeo’s reign of ‘terror’ in New York

Cabinet secretary

Hugh Tomlinson

Complaints resurface over Romeo’s reign of ‘terror’ in New York

Museums

Vanessa Thorpe

National Gallery’s £8.2m deficit reignites free museums debate

Measles outbreak raises fears of increase in fatal brain disease among children

Public health

James Tapper

Measles outbreak raises fears of increase in fatal brain disease among children

Tom Fletcher

‘I’ve become tougher to protect the idealist inside. But I cry on the plane’

On a stroll through Paris, the UN humanitarian chief talks about finding humanity in the most unlikely places and his own methods for coping with trauma