Joseph Fiennes on parenting, politics and banning children from social media: ‘Stand up, Keir, this is your kids’ generation’

He’s played English titans from William Shakespeare to Gareth Southgate, but what does the actor really think about the country today?

Who is Louis Mosley, the man tasked with defending Palantir against its critics?

The company’s UK and Europe boss has become a lightning rod for the British public’s fear of a US tech takeover

The hill I will die on: Voice notes have made my generation a bunch of self-absorbed bores

We used to have the back and forth of actual conversation. Now we have phones filled with our friends’ rambling soliloquies, says lifestyle and culture writer Annabel Martin

Into the Ronaldo-verse: sludge of content is eating up sport and the adults are to blame

Cristiano Ronaldo has 664 million Instagram followers but his boring presence highlights how reel-life destroys what it touches

The Guide #242: Everyday Hollywood film comedies have faded but can they make a comeback?

As studios chase safer bets and streamers fail to deliver, the humble standalone comedy has been replaced by blockbusters that sprinkle jokes instead of delivering belly laughs

From The Sheep Detectives to Rivals: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson star in a farmyard mystery, while the spirited bonkbuster returns for a smutty second outing

Worried Britons ‘prepping’ for major disruption with stash of tins and cash, survey shows

Fears over a natural disaster or cyber-attack are pushing households into contingency planning, Link survey shows

Amandaland to Olof Dreijer: the week in rave reviews

Lucy Punch’s middle-class antihero is back, and one half of the Knife presents an album of dazzlingly inventive psychedelia. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

AI will make language barriers disappear – and diminish our understanding of other cultures

Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than information – it is curiosity, intimacy and cultural discovery

King Charles features in surprise birthday tribute to David Attenborough

Whimsical film shows relay of animals carrying centennial card from Balmoral Castle to naturalist in London

‘I should have kicked him even harder. He deserved it’: Eric Cantona comes out fighting

A new documentary at Cannes film festival looks at the French footballer’s five turbulent and triumphant seasons in Manchester – and the love story between him and manager Alex Ferguson

AI-powered surveillance company Palantir created a chore coat. Great, now I have no choice but to burn mine

The gentle French garment is now as cursed as the infamous megacorp, which has accumulated $80m in government contracts in Australia alone

White House calls Mark Hamill ‘sick’ for posting AI image of Trump in a grave

Star Wars actor later deleted post and apologized, saying president should live ‘long enough to be held accountable’

The fight against AI datacenters isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions

Star Wars has to deliver a proper movie with The Mandalorian and Grogu – otherwise the franchise is dead

The long-suffering saga has been kept alive this decade by TV alone – but even that will perish if the new movie fails to extend its universe