Think lefties should be civil about people like Suella Braverman? I politely refuse

The argument that a ‘woke army’ threatens free speech is baffling, given that the right is eroding basic respect and dignity, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Elf and safety: is a shrine to Dobby ruining a Welsh beauty spot – and threatening local wildlife?

Harry Potter fans have been asked to stop leaving tributes to the house-elf on a beach in Pembrokeshire

‘Sums up 2022’: Permacrisis chosen as Collins word of the year

Dictionary defines word as ‘extended period of instability and insecurity’, with Partygate, Kyiv and ‘warm bank’ also making list

Revealed: TE Lawrence felt ‘bitter shame’ over UK’s false promises of Arab self rule

Deleted chapter of book by British spy who supported Arab revolt reveals his true feelings about insincere pledge of self-government

No journalist had a deeper sense of history than Ian Jack

Endlessly curious and knowledgeable, the Guardian columnist was renowned for his interest in the industrial working class from which he came

Ian Jack, Guardian columnist and former Granta editor, dies aged 77

Writer who also edited Independent on Sunday remembered as one of the best in British journalism

Prince Harry’s ‘unflinching’ memoir, Spare, to be published in January

Publishing simultaneously in 16 different languages, the book is billed as ‘full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom’

Arthur C Clarke award goes to ‘thrilling’ verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles

Deep Wheel Orcadia, set on a distant space station struggling for survival, is praised by judges for ‘making you rethink what science fiction can do’

Descendant of Doctor Zhivago author loses copyright court case

Anna Pasternak alleged Lara Prescott copied elements of her book about her great uncle Boris’s lover

Book prices set to rise as production costs soar, say UK publishers

Firms aim to minimise rises by using cheaper paper and increasing print runs as raw material and energy cost hikes hit sector

Peterborough libraries offer amnesty on fines to recover 22,000 missing books

Service says the move is aimed at encourage the return of borrowers who stopped using the library during the Covid pandemic

Neal Ascherson at 90: ‘Journalism was easier in my time. You had more time to think’

The distinguished former Observer foreign correspondent reflects on an extraordinary life – beginning with a horrifying brush with a Luftwaffe machine gunner

A Sultry Month changed how I viewed history. It is well that it has been reissued

Faber has blown the dust off Alethea Hayter’s groundbreaking biography of London’s 19th-century literati – not before time

‘I want to re-enchant people’: the man championing Britain’s rainforests

Campaigner Guy Shrubsole aims to double 1% land area where rainforests endure so more people can rediscover their magic

‘Vividly realised’ global stories on 4thWrite prize shortlist

The short story competition for unpublished writers of colour, run by the Guardian and 4th Estate, features a domestic child worker in Pakistan and a physics professor whose psyche splits in two