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Gorton and Denton
Burnham ‘probably’ would’ve won
In Manchester the morning after Labour’s bruising byelection loss, deputy leader Lucy Powell tells Rachel Sylvester why she thinks the party has to change its strategy and says she doesn’t want to be PM
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
Books
The problem with the Good Slut theory
Zoe Strimpel believes that the patriarchy is in retreat and women have never had it so good, Róisín Lanigan writes. Current events might suggest otherwise
For today
Ideas
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Politics
Zack Polanski
People power led the Greens to victory in Gorton and Denton
Artificial intelligence
John Naughton
Amazon’s new AI writing culture is selling short our powers of productive thinking
Words to consider
Kenan Malik
A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was more dispiriting
Vanity fair
Evan Moffitt
Clavicular didn’t invent ‘looksmaxxing’ – gay men have been at it for a long time
Dating apps
The rise and fall of Bumble
The dating app Bumble built its identity on a promise: women make the first move. In this episode, The Observer uncovers a legal campaign by men’s rights activists that helped dismantle that premise
The Epstein scandal
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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
