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Winnie-the-Pooh goes to Harrods in new authorised AA Milne prequel

Once There Was a Bear by Jane Riordan and Mark Burgess will channel the original books’ voice and pictorial style using details from Christopher Robin’s real life

Sugar-tax goes sour: why does the word ‘nanny’ terrify Tories?

The response to the National Food Strategy included a fresh round of rightwing ‘nanny state’ denunciations. So what’s behind the phrase?

Marcus Rashford is ‘playing politics’? That’s great – he’s better at it than politicians

Often the best ideas come from people who are not politicians – like the footballer’s campaign to feed hungry children, writes MP Jess Phillips

Spike by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja; and Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green – review

Two urgent and fascinating accounts from the frontlines show how scientists succeeded, and failed, at saving us from Covid-19

Buckingham Palace shudders at prospect of more of Prince Harry’s truth

Past royal efforts are tame in comparison to what Duke of Sussex could unleash on his family

I don’t know why Jackie Leven isn’t better known – he should be revered

As the late Scottish troubadour gets his first greatest hits album, novelist and collaborator Ian Rankin recalls his relationship with this chronicler of alienation and fragile masculinity

Prince Harry agrees publishing deal to write his memoirs

Penguin Random House announces book is expected in late 2022 with proceeds going to charity

The lion in the London black cab: the remarkable story of Singh, and the boy who loved him

Gifted as a cub by a Maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. Now his story has been made into a book

We still need to take ‘precautions’ during the pandemic – so how will those differ from restrictions?

Once denoting wariness, then a euphemism for birth control, extra ‘precautions’ are now on Boris Johnson’s agenda. What does the word mean?

Exhibition reveals how Shakespeare’s Hal has excused royal heirs for centuries

New show uncovers a long tradition for princes of Wales to excuse their own behaviour by comparing it to Prince Hal’s

Marcus Rashford scores in book charts with You Are a Champion

Public sympathy for the defeated England striker has sent sales rocketing for his inspirational life guide for kids

Michael Horovitz obituary

Iconoclastic poet, editor and leading light of British counterculture during the 1950s and 60s

Why Benedict Cumberbatch fell for ‘oddball’ artist and his world of cats

Actor makes plea for tolerance of outsiders as his new film and a book explore the life of Louis Wain

Sex, squalor and Soho: how the word ‘sleaze’ gained its meaning

Matt Hancock’s scandal may have made the news, but there has never been a shortage of sleaze in Westminster. Where does the word come from?

Guardian journalist helped me see a way out, ex-cult member recalls

Former Children of God member says simple question put to her by Walter Schwarz was life-changing

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