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‘His body was a tool telling truths’: Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor’s extraordinary exit

Simon Chambers’ film about his late uncle David makes for candid and compelling viewing. Along with one of David’s former pupils, and a fan of his film, he talks care, contempt and infatuation

Much Ado About Dying review – brave, loving record of an actor uncle’s last days

Simon Chambers’ documentary is unsparing in capturing his theatrical relation’s endearing, sometimes desperate and often infuriating decline

Red Herring review – document of family soul-searching after terminal diagnosis

The disarmingly candid film follows Vincent and his loved ones as they try to find ways to deal with a devastating prognosis

OnlyFans investigated over claim children accessed pornography

Ofcom looks into whether website for adult performers failed to properly implement age-verification checks

Daniel Radcliffe says rupture with JK Rowling over trans rights is ‘really sad’

Harry Potter star reveals in interview that he has had no contact with Rowling since the author’s gender-critical statements on trans women

Stop children using smartphones until they are 13, says French report

Children should be banned from most social media until 18 amid attempts to ‘monetise’ them, says Macron-commissioned study

Police busts, porn cinemas and glory holes: the wild art of sexual outlaw Dean Sameshima

Busted for cruising in an LA toilet, he proudly turned his police documents into art. Now the Californian is bringing Being Alone – his elegant hymn to anonymous hookups – to Venice and London

Outside London, the dating pool may be smaller – but there are fewer sharks

I thought moving out would be a dating disaster, but a new report finds my peers in the capital have it worse, says journalist Elle Hunt

Why row over Baby Reindeer sleuths will change real-life drama for ever

Netflix’s No 1 hit show sparks legal and moral debate over identities in true-crime stories

Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed’

The activist singer-songwriter on fighting for trans rights, his 40 years in the music business and his forthcoming tour with his son

The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones

The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people’s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy

The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer: should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers?

The internet is rife with speculation about the real-life stalker and real-life abuser from the Netflix hit. Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless – even exploitative?

Ordinary Angels review – heartwarming rescue from the horrors of the US healthcare system

Alan Ritchson is impressive as a father who can’t pay his desperately sick child’s hospital fees, but the good-neighbour plot ignores a bigger question

‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school

Muting people on social media is fast and free and will change your life

Experts say setting boundaries online creates a healthier digital environment and helps preserve your mental wellbeing

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  • Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – UK politics live
  • ‘The genie’s out the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban
  • Forget makeup and tweakments: this is how we should be ageing gracefully
  • UK 16 and 17-year-olds: we would like to hear your views on the government’s social media ban for under-16s
  • ‘We’re coming for his ass’: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Bette Midler target Trump at New York benefit concert
  • ‘What’s the opposite of a gay demon?’: The creepy new Australian horror film that’s getting global buzz
  • One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts
  • Spielberg’s Disclosure Day opens strongly at box office as Obsession, Backrooms – and Michael – smash records
  • Ian McKellen says he imagined destroying Mar-a-Lago for new Avengers movie
  • UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work?
  • The Toymaker’s Key review – steampunk sci-fi animation is eclectic if overwrought
  • How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on
  • ‘Loving our country sounds like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser’: Robert De Niro leads crowd in rallying cry against Trump
  • Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK
  • The man who bought Diane Keaton’s nail clippers also owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot: ‘It will have her fingerprints on it’
  • Disclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilers
  • Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama
  • Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
  • The problem with ‘loneliness influencers’ isn’t their friendlessness – it’s the air of cosy defeatism
  • Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
  • ‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
  • ‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time
  • Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook
  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
  • Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?
  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
  • ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion

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