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You may disagree with the US author’s bracing journalism, but her right to spark disquiet goes to the heart of the freedom of expression issue

In today’s newsletter: As Truss travels to Balmoral to accept the prime ministership, a look at some of the must-read pieces about her policies, her opposition and her future at No 10

Amelia Tait talks to the people painstakingly scrubbing and restoring graves – and posting wildly popular footage

UK Lotto operator challenges the Gambling Commission’s decision to award £6.4bn contract to its rival, Allwyn

The award-winning historian on Putin’s cult of personality, why he loves Turgenev, and giving up on books after 20 pages

Onlookers cheered and smiled as the two 100-metre towers crumbled to the ground, leaving a cloud of dust and debris in their wake. The Supertech Twin Towers in Noida, India were demolished on August 28 after a nine-year legal battle. Residents counted it as a win against corruption in India’s…

This rich and riotous novel, following the search for two of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant, is also an important book for our own historical moment

'It’s not that we wouldn’t passionately hold the line... it’s how long we could actually do it.'

The brilliantly colourful and eclectic home of Lucinda Chambers, Vogue’s former fashion director, is ‘a constant work-in-progress’, finds Kate Finnigan