Animol review – gritty young offenders drama challenges conventional machismo
Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest film
Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics
From ‘honour’ killings to nuclear war, some screen works have led directly legislative action – despite what jury head Wenders suggested at the Berlin film festival
NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed
Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in England
‘People ought to know’: Blue Boy Trial brings Japan’s trans history up to date
Kasho Iizuka’s feature casts trans actors to revisit a notorious 1965 trial that made gender reassignment illegal for more than 30 years. He explains why the history remains unfinished
‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy
With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulation
Children in England ‘bombarded’ with online ads for harmful products
Teenagers routinely see content promoting weight-loss drugs, steroids and skin-whitening creams, research finds
Larry (They/Them) review – trans photographer’s colourful creative journey into everyday life
Documentary following Laurence Philomène captures the vibrant palette of their work – and the shadows cast over it by prejudice
TikTok could be forced to change app’s ‘addictive design’ by European Commission
Preliminary EU ruling says app shifts brains of users into ‘autopilot mode’, with concerns for children and vulnerable adults
Unlicensed weight-loss drugs marketed on social media as ‘prizes’
‘Giveaway’ competitions on WhatsApp and Telegram for retatrutide and other drugs described as ‘extremely dangerous’
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms
‘The right has won the family’: my relentless search for lefty mommy bloggers
The most popular mom content tends to be rightwing tradwife propaganda or not political at all – pushing progressive creators out of the algorithm
‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis
Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators
André Is an Idiot review – a riotously funny, painfully honest film about facing death
A cancer diagnosis becomes the catalyst for gallows humour, rage and hard-won emotional openness in a disarmingly frank film about how to say goodbye
Women in tech and finance at higher risk from AI job losses, report says
‘Mid-career’ female workers also being sidelined by rigid hiring processes, says City of London Corporation
The lithium boom: could a disused quarry bring riches to Cornwall?
Known as ‘white gold’, lithium is among the most important mined elements on the planet – ideal for the rechargeable batteries used in tech products. Can Europe’s largest deposit bring prosperity to the local community?