‘What’s this disease that keeps us making bad choices?’: Bill Hader on murder, misery and his hit comedy Barry

The actor and comedian rose to fame as ‘the impressions guy’ on Saturday Night Live. Now he’s the star of an Emmy-winning sitcom, which he also writes and directs. If only he could be less anxious about it all …

Carolyn Chen: ‘The tech company offers the most efficient solution to providing a meaningful life’

A new book exposes Silicon Valley’s use of spiritual concepts and practices to optimise their workers’ productivity

What is driving the anti-sex backlash?

From Mary Whitehouse to the new ‘puriteens’, there is a growing anti-sex movement gathering pace

Technology makes me feel I don’t really belong in this world

For older people, the internet plays on the part which is in all of us, that is alone and unknown, says Philippa Perry

Pro-war memes, Z symbols and blue and yellow flags: Russian influencers at war

As the government tightens its grip, some social media stars are speaking out, while others are pivoting to propaganda

Sienna Miller on taking on the tabloids: ‘It was so toxic – what women were subjected to’

After a bruising battle to expose the red tops’ dirty tricks, the actor reveals the price she paid

‘Silence guarantees nothing will change’: film-makers challenge the anti-abortion movement

Audrey Diwan’s 1960s-set drama Happening is the latest in a wave of films on an issue that is increasingly topical

‘At 21 I have no regrets’: I just got an email from myself, a decade ago

The message, sent through a service that holds emails for the future, offered some sage advice

Happening review – cleverly structured and impeccably produced abortion drama

Winner at the Venice film festival, Audrey Diwan’s film captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalisation of abortion in provincial France

Liza Minnelli was ‘sabotaged’ at Oscars and ‘forced’ to appear in wheelchair, claims friend

Longtime collaborator Michael Feinstein has alleged that the manner of Minnelli’s appearance presenting best picture last month was largely against her wishes

The new wave of female film-makers confronting Mexico’s violence against women

After years of on-screen successes led by the likes of Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, female directors are making their mark with urgent, disquieting cinema

Is it time for cutting-edge tech to make your mower greener?

Gardeners are looking for a more environmentally friendly machine, but which is right for you?

Richard Moore obituary

Bike rider who turned to journalism and co-created the Cycling Podcast, an instant hit listened to by millions

A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world

The long read: What’s behind the indestructible appeal of the robotic snack?

On my radar: Will Poulter’s cultural highlights

The actor on his globe-spanning appetite, his love of Kojey Radical and his admiration for how comedian Bo Burnham dealt with the misery of lockdown