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Colour analysis: fashion’s search for the perfect shade

Colour Me Beautiful’s analysts have been helping people find a style that suits them for 35 years. So what’s the difference between ‘cool’ and ‘deep’? And does ‘khaki’ always = ‘death’?

The fastest way to spread extremism is with the censor’s boot

The Charlie Hebdo killings have prompted a clampdown. But history teaches that openness and debate are the most effective weapons in the battle of ideas

Lynsey Addario: ‘War journalists are not all addicted to adrenaline. It’s a calling’

The photojournalist’s work in conflict zones has seen her subjected to the horrors of the frontline. In a new memoir, the mother-of-one explains why she keeps on going back

On my radar: Attica Locke’s cultural highlights

The crime writer on what makes an artist, the difficulty of finding good BBQ outside Texas and her fascination with how LA’s Scientologists

Winnie the Pooh: bear of little brain walks again

AA Milne’s much-loved children’s classic to be revived by Disney as a live action film, following success of Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella

Nigerian laureate Wole Soyinka laments ‘vicious, unprincipled’ election

Nation’s foremost man of letters warns in interview of ‘a very sinister force in control’ of the incumbent president

Secret memoir uncovers the real life and loves of doomed war poet Rupert Brooke

On the centenary of the his death, a cache of love letters brings the elusive golden boy of Edwardian England into focus

Why filthy literature should not be cleaned up

The Clean Reader app, which removes profanities from ebooks, is an insult to readers and to language

Martin Scorsese may direct film of Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth

Branagh reveals in radio interview that Scorsese will be invited to ‘do what he will’ with Shakespeare villainy based on acclaimed Manchester production

Peta claims owls mistreated on Harry Potter studio tour

Complaints from fans of the boy wizard prompt protest against the alleged exploitation of animals for entertainment at Warner Bros Studio Tour

Sequel to Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom to be published next year

Pan Macmillan announces it has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to book which is likely to tackle Mandela’s divorce from his second wife Winnie and why he opted to stand down after a single term

Who took the sex out of the sexual revolution?

Domesticity has become so idealised that the pleasures of sexual abandon have been forgotten

When Yanis Varoufakis stepped up, so did Zed Books…

The speed with which a London publisher reacted when one of its authors became the Greek finance minister tells us a lot about the power of digital technology

The week in TV: Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True; Raised By Wolves; Back in Time for Dinner; Eat to Live Forever With Giles Coren; Ordinary Lies

Trevor Phillips dared us to say the unsayable while Caitlin Moran made us laugh about her childhood

Gone to Ground by Marie Jalowicz Simon review – a survivor’s tale by a born storyteller

Transcribed from an astonishing 77 tapes, this true story of a German Jew during the second world war is full of wit, humour and insight

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