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Julie Burchill abused me for being Muslim – yet she was cast as the victim

The columnist has apologised for her Islamophobic insults, but the issue goes way beyond her, says Ash Sarkar, a senior editor at Novara Media

The Columnist review – middle class writer on a murder spree

There is absurdist carnage as a journalist takes bloody real-life revenge on the keyboard warriors tormenting her

‘Talk to me’: Molly Jong-Fast on podcasting in the new abnormal

Trump has gone and so for now has Rick Wilson, but Covid is still with us and the Daily Beast pod is as hard-hitting as ever

Ted K review – queasy inner life of the monkish, unhappy Unabomber

Sharlto Copley excels behind a straggly beard in this portrait of the serial terror-bomber, on a mission against modern technology

New Cue the music: former Q editors join newsletter publishing boom

After the Bauer Media music title’s pandemic-triggered demise last July, Q’s former staff are launching a weekly direct-to-inbox publication

Charities condemn Facebook for ‘attack on democracy’ in Australia

Campaign groups say blocking access to reliable news sources leaves a void to be filled by misinformation and hate speech

The Kiosk review – fond farewell to a Parisian newsstand

The decline of print could close a newspaper kiosk that’s been run for generations, and is warmly sketched in this witty film

Microsoft urges US and EU to follow Australian digital news code

Firm stood against Facebook and Google over plan to make tech giants pay news organisations

Digested week: falling ice, and other perils of New York’s high life

This week, while most New Yorkers feared death by icefall, others had more rarefied concerns

Von der Leyen: big tech firms need to be reined in despite Trump’s exit

Internet giants that spread hate speech and conspiracy theories should face ‘democratic limits’, says European commission president

When film stars attack: Russell Crowe’s reaction to criticism could set a trend

The actor’s unexpected response to a complaint about an 18-year-old film could pave the way for big-name actors to personally insult Twitter users

Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future?

The naysayers said the user-written encyclopedia would never work. Now it boasts 55m articles and 1.7bn visitors a month

Most of us are sticking to the lockdown rules, so why do we blame one another?

Fixating on the actions of a handful of ‘covidiots’ will only undermine compliance among the population as a whole, says psychologist Stephen Reicher

Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack

An online platform where journalists sell content directly to subscribers is luring eminent voices away from traditional media

Johnny Depp ‘did not get fair trial’, lawyers tell appeal court

Judge dismissed Depp’s libel claim last month but actor seeks new trial over assault allegations

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  • Water cannon deployed in second night of disorder after knife attack in Belfast – live
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
  • From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup
  • ‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Should you send that midnight text? 11 essential rules for phone etiquette
  • The best films of 2026 so far
  • Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules
  • Boogie Nights review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn epic is still gaudy, seedy fun
  • Global brands ‘likely’ using mineral that funds rebels accused of atrocities in DRC, investigation finds
  • Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out
  • How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
  • Crackdown on tech platforms will go ahead despite US intervention, says No 10
  • Peabo Bryson obituary
  • Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
  • ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
  • All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth
  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
  • Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
  • Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
  • Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire
  • ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
  • Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn

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