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Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a fact-free future

The tech mogul’s Grokipedia relies on right-leaning AI instead of consensus between human moderators

We’re swearing off dating apps. But are $150k matchmakers really the answer?

From Seeking.com to the real-world high-net-worth matching services of Materialists, today you really can put a price on love

For an antidote to ‘broken Britain’, try the corner shop

Small stores have become condensed high streets, single-stops for diverse shoppers and beloved by gen Zs

What I learned from the Margaret Thatcher estate sale

An auction of the Iron Lady’s personal effects gives us insight into her private life – but also, perhaps, ourselves

My week as an alpha male wolf

Each week Simon Barnes hears what the last seven days have been like for a member of the animal kingdom

Dear Keir: How do I keep my kids on the straight and narrow?

Lucy Powell has a resonant message. The PM should listen

After a disastrous byelection in Wales, Labour’s new deputy leader should not be frozen out by Keir Starmer

Expelling legal migrants is an Idi Amin move

Katie Lam’s plan for expulsions opens the door to curtailing the rights of us all

The Let Them Theory may be ‘non-fiction’ but it has no facts

Mel Robbins’s bestseller is the worst kind of advice for young women

Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing the channel

Big tech’s biggest players are aggressively competing with TikTok’s clip-based offering – and that is cutting the social from social media

My three-year-old has bold ambitions for Halloween

Being old enough to choose your own costume is a milestone, but how did a baby shark end up becoming a pumpkin?

MrBeast’s bank is one more step towards an influencer-run dystopia

The world’s most popular YouTuber has plans to create a banking app

How Jacqueline Wilson transformed British girlhood

The children’s author tackled the hard parts of growing up with humour and empathy

My week as a Krøyer’s deep-sea anglerfish

Each week Simon Barnes hears what the last seven days has been like for a member of the animal kingdom

Fashion Week showed us the body positivity movement is over

The main trend revealed on the catwalks is that women are expected to be thinner

‘I’ve fallen in love with school lunch leftovers’

A new initiative sees top chefs cook school meals from scratch

My student loan was paid to someone else

The Observer's consumer champion solves your problems

Tay-Tay’s Ophelia is positively drowning in artistic references

The star’s channelling of the tragic heroine has sent Swifties flocking to see Friedrich Heyser’s original