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A Surprising Royal "Regularly Set Fire" to Their Room at Buckingham Palace, Says Royal Expert

A Royal Family member's rather "fiery habit" was allegedly responsible.

Marie Claire

James Cameron is set to adapt a fantasy novel described as "Suicide Squad meets Hammer Horror" as he finishes work on Avatar: Fire and Ash: "It will be a joyful new challenge for me"

Cameron is co-writing the screenplay with author Joe Abercrombie

Total Film

Reinvigorated Dark Mofo ready to fire at full strength

An often controversial music, food and arts event will soon return at top capacity, a year after running a reduced offering to get its books in better shape.

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Leaked emails and fallouts with the Camerons: the biggest revelations from Sarah Vine's new political memoir

Run-ins with Jeremy Clarkson, partying in Ibiza and death threats in the post — Sarah Vine’s new memoir is full of details about life on the frontline of politics

Evening Standard

Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Shift of Control to Speakers: The Decline of Private Speech Regulations

[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," written for a symposium… The post Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Shift of Control to Speakers: The Decline of Private Speech Regulations appeared first…

Reason

‘Deliciously addictive’, ‘dripping with suspense’: the best Australian books out in June

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU

Does putting a wet phone in rice actually work? An expert weighs in

Your smartphone lands in the toilet or goes through the laundry. What now?

The Independent UK

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Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions

The president’s funding cuts and bullying are about dividing Americans and tightening his grip on power

The Guardian - US

‘It’s so boring’: gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids – and educators are worried

Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind

The Guardian - US

Princess Anne Didn't Agree With Queen Elizabeth's One Wish for Her Grandchildren—And it Left The Late Queen "Disappointed"

The Princess Royal had other plans in mind.

Marie Claire

As the first born, am I the smartest? Maybe – but siblings shape us in far more interesting ways

A new book explores the impact of birth order, but how we measure up against our brothers and sisters can be complex, says writer and journalist Imogen West-Knights

The Guardian - UK

Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allure

The Guardian - UK

The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey review – beyond the bounds of fiction

You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: chapter two of the ultimate Jane Austen docu-series

The extraordinary story of history’s most famous female author continues. Plus: Nathan Fielder’s awkward social experiment. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Katie Piper says man threw sandwich at her after noticing facial burns

The TV host and activist spoke candidly at the 2025 Hay Festival

The Independent UK

BBC ‘defied’ Thatcher with ‘brave’ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, says author Jeanette Winterson

Lesbian coming-of-age drama came out at a time when former PM was seeking to stop positive portrayals of homosexuality

The Guardian - UK

Working from home? It’s so much nicer if you’re a man

Ever since lockdown we’ve supposedly all been in it together, doing conference calls in our slippers. But in straight couples, guess who gets the spare bedroom and the proper desk, asks Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

‘Publishing is a dream, but this has also been one of the hardest years of my life’: Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher

The novelist has been awarded the Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. She talks about giving up medical training to pursue fiction – and the childhood memories that inspired her winning debut, The Coin

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The Guardian - US

Dragon on Centre Street by Jonah Bromwich review – drama of Trump the felon

The New York Times reporter gives an insightful – and withering – account of the president’s hush-money trial

The Independent UK

Author Philippe Sands was told it is ‘unacceptable’ to read Russian writer Tolstoy amid Ukraine war

‘It is complex,’ said the award-winning writer

The Guardian - UK

Norma Meras Swenson obituary

Sociologist and women’s health activist who was a co-author of the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves

The Independent UK

Voices: Writing a book was meant to be a dream – but publishing it turned into a nightmare

COMMENT: Crowdfunding publisher Unbound is going into administration, leaving authors, contributors and shareholders unpaid. Kat Brown is one of the writers left high, dry and deeply disappointed

The Independent UK

Jacqueline Wilson says it would be ‘inappropriate’ to write about Tracy Beaker’s sex life

‘I would feel very wary about writing about Tracy in an adult book,’ said the author

Salon

Has Harry Potter become Voldemort?

You can't separate the art from the transphobic artist, but you can still love Harry Potter

The Guardian - UK

Gerlin Bean obituary

Other lives: Activist prominent in the British Black feminist movement

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