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Radhika Jones: Vanity Fair’s bright, bookish new editor with big shoes to fill

The surprise choice for editor has a PhD from Columbia – but can she follow Graydon Carter and steer the magazine through a difficult digital transition?

John Lewis Christmas ad accused of plagiarism by Mr Underbed author

Chris Riddell points out similarities between Moz the monster and a character from his 1986 picturebook

Gordon Brown: Bankers should have been jailed for role in financial crisis

Ex-PM warns failure to take tougher stand has made it inevitable that rogue bankers will again gamble with public money

Paul Hollywood’s new baking book expected to sell like you-know-what

Bloomsbury will publish The Great British Bake Off judge’s A Baker’s Life, accompanied by a new four-part Channel 4 series, in November

Why the unicorn has become the emblem for our times

The modern unicorn is everywhere. On children’s TV, on Gay Pride marches and selling beauty products. Alice Fisher looks at why this magical creature has become so popular

The Guardian view on the IMF’s message: yes, tax the super-rich

Editorial: The Reagan-Thatcher revolution changed society’s beliefs about taxes for the worse. It’s a good thing the IMF agrees with Labour that we need a rethink if we want economic growth shared fairly

Spy caper Kingsman: The Golden Circle still on top as Flatliners flatlines

Horror adaptation It remains second ahead of Goodbye Christopher Robin, while Spice World: The Movie gets a nostalgia UK screening

Wolf of Wall Street’s Jordan Belfort: ‘The lessons of the crash have been forgotten’

The convicted fraudster who inspired Martin Scorsese’s film of Wall Street excess is back with a new book and a warning that a big market correction is on the way

Stephen King’s It scares off The Exorcist to become highest-grossing horror ever

The adaptation of Stephen King’s demonic clown story crosses $500m mark at the global box office as studio fast-tracks sequel

Kingsman: The Golden Circle spies an opportunity at the UK box office – and grabs It

Matthew Vaughn’s spy caper sequel opens bigger than a string of 2017 summer blockbusters; while Stephen King horror drops into second place

Land of tassels, swags and sash windows: a swipe at Britain’s pseudo-Georgian wonderland

It’s cheap, boring, shoddy and everywhere. But now artist Pablo Bronstein has turned his love-hate relationship with Britain’s ‘pseudo-Georgian’ architecture into a delightful show

Campaigner will donate first Jane Austen £10 note to women’s shelter

Caroline Criado-Perez, who forced Bank of England to put a woman on new banknote, says it will feel amazing to hold one

Plastic £10 note to enter circulation on Thursday

Banknote featuring Jane Austen is introduced a year after launch of the first polymer note, the Winston Churchill fiver

Till Time’s Last Sand review – a bloodless history of the Bank of England

David Kynaston’s power to entertain eludes him in this exhaustive but dry as dust account of the central bank

Stephen King’s It breaks highest-grossing horror record at the US box office

Bill Skårsgard’s demonic clown slaughtered the competition, taking more than double the previous record for a horror film’s opening weekend

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