Car wrecks, pay cheques and puppy palaces: the fringes of the share economy
From boats to backyards, peer-to-peer lending services have gone well beyond spare rooms. While renting your assets to strangers can be lucrative, there are risks
Laura Bates: ‘For teenage girls, escaping harassment, revenge porn and deepfake porn is impossible’
She wrote the definitive book on online misogyny – which led to the police installing a panic alarm in her home. Bates explains how the ‘manosphere’ radicalises boys, how the media feeds the problem – and why she is still hopeful
Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman review – fine portrait of a neglected artist
A study of a female painter who exhibited with the first impressionists in 19th-century Paris but saw little of their renown is fascinating and moving
Where are my foul excretions? What happened when I boiled my wooden spoons
A TikTok post with almost 50m views has triggered a craze for deep-cleaning wooden kitchen utensils in boiling water. So just how filthy are mine?
The Wife and Her House Husband review – divorce drama gets under the skin of marriage
The dynamics of a long relationship are under the microscope in Marcus Markou’s examination of a couple whose marriage is breaking down
Everyone loves to hate the Oscars. But here’s why I’ll be watching
Events like the Oscars are rare examples of monoculture in a pop-culture world increasingly fractured into tiny splinters
‘No problemo’: what Gen Z are really saying with their T-shirts
Sloganwear now is hyper-specific, earnest and sarcastic all at once. It also tells us a lot about what’s important to a generation that grew up with the internet
A new world of gardening advice is opening up on social media
Fancy having a go at bonsai? Look online, says James Wong
‘There is lots of talk and no action’: designer Amy Powney’s quest to make sustainability more than just a buzzword
In the documentary Fashion Reimagined, the founder of luxury brand Mother of Pearl tackles supply chains, reveals hard truths and is right at home meeting sheep
Models and robots share the runway at Coperni fashion show
Boston Dynamics’ canine automatons steal show in Paris as maison stages modern fable, designers say
Fashion Reimagined review – quest for ethical chic has lots of interest to reveal
Informative documentary follows luxury brand’s painstaking effort to produce clothes that do no harm
Fine, I admit it – I am a ‘dry texter’. It beats emojis or verbal diarrhoea
All of my family keep it brief. Most messages are just ‘k’. So when an expression of affection finally arrives, it elicits a genuine thrill, writes Emma Beddington
Cocaine Bear and wayward wallabies: the improbable history of animals getting high
A new comedy horror film tells the story of a black bear running amok on cocaine – and it is far from the only creature to have had a run-in with a mind-bending substance
The sudden dawn of the deinfluencer: can online superstars stop us shopping?
A backlash against overconsumption is spreading fast on social media. Is this the beginning of the end for our rampant, destructive consumer culture – or just influencing by another name?
Baftas 2023: ceremony and winners – as it happened!
Richard E Grant in a cape, Alison Hammond channelling the One Show, Florence Pugh in orange net: we were there for Britain’s biggest film awards