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Stonehenge, carnival, folk and fascists: how Zakia Sewell went in pursuit of the real story of Britain

The 6 Music DJ and writer, whose new book explores her mixed-race heritage and the ancient myth of ‘Albion’, tells Michaela Makusha everyone has a stake in a complex, nuanced country

Q&A

Review of the Week: The Music Is Black: A British Story at V&A East

An ambitious exhibition launching the V&A's brand new outpost shies away from the hardest parts of the social history behind the tunes, but tells its story with verve, writes music critic Damien Morris

Reviews

Iran is winning the propaganda war against Trump – brick by brick

Tehran’s viral videos satirising a Lego-style president have harnessed the power of AI – and Maga’s debasing of political discourse – and turned it against the US, writes disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz

Tech

The Recommender: Adeel Akhtar

The double-Bafta-winning actor, known for Sherwood, Down Cemetery Road and Four Lions, picks his current cultural favourites

Culture

Jad Youssef’s Lebanese chicken with garlic and lemon

The restaurateur shares a tray-bake recipe for djej b’sayniyeh – a longtime family favourite – from his debut cookbook

Food

With Orbán gone, has the British far right lost its magic money tree?

Hungary’s new PM has described his predecessor’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate. This could be bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK – and around the rest of the world, writes Alice McCool

Politics

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week – from Carey Mulligan in the second series of Beef to the surrealism of Leonora Carrington – as seen and chosen for you by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

As a gay man living in Hungary, Orbán’s defeat has changed my life

Novelist Krisztián Marton was contemplating leaving his country under the oppressive Fidesz government. Then came a vote, an agonising wait – and a message of unity from the winner he had hardly dared hope for

News

The five ways Trump could attempt a coup, by fascism expert Timothy Snyder

Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian

Politics