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Deborah Frances-White: No, Nigel, not all men are misogynist, and not all pubs are either

When the erstwhile MP for Clacton defended a candidate’s crass comments about women, he called them something ‘you’ll hear in every pub in the country’. Our survey of pubs suggest that’s simply not true, writes 'the Guilty Feminist'

Reform UK

The Nerve Hotlist

This week's top cultural picks, from Olivia Wilde's sexy couples comedy to a celebration of ice cream, as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

We’re being asked to save two buckets of water a day. Meanwhile data centres drink a town’s worth

England is heading for a 5bn-litre daily water shortfall by 2055 – so why is the government fast-tracking one of the most water-hungry industries there is, and letting it keep its consumption private, asks campaigner Adele Walton

Environment

Chequers gatherings, Johnson's diary and a new jet fighter... how billionaire Christopher Harborne became a big player in defence

Soon after the Ukraine war broke out, the investor emerged as a highly favoured backer of the Tory government – and then a major shareholder in privatised defence lab QinetiQ at a transformative moment for its fortunes. By Carole Cadwalladr and Charlie Young

The Harborne Receipts

Review: Ai Weiwei: Button Up!

The scale is vast, and the message sometimes obvious, but this major exhibition in Manchester shows the celebrated artist can still create genuine intensity, writes Kadish Morris

Reviews

Stewart Lee: Want to protect women and girls? I’d keep them away from Raise the Colours

A prominent flag-hanger has just been charged with making indecent images of children – as if the campaign’s relationship with the law wasn’t fraught enough already

Stewart Lee

‘If these social media apps were an air fryer, they would have been recalled’: digital campaigner Beeban Kidron on Big Tech

The acclaimed film-maker and peer has made it her business to represent the rights of children and creators against Silicon Valley’s ‘giant compulsion machine’. She talks to Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Q&A

The Festival of Britain’s boldest dream has been forgotten

Down the road from London’s South Bank landmarks, the exhibition committee built a model social housing estate – for everyone, for the future. Seventy-five years on, where is that spirit now? By Phineas Harper

Culture

The Recommender: Tahmima Anam

The award-winning London-based novelist shares her latest cultural discoveries

Books