1. The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’
Andrew Tate (left) and Markuss Hussle have both sold courses offering tips on managing women on OnlyFans. Composite: Guardian Design; @hussreels; Tasos Katopodis; allanswart; Vladimiroquai/Getty Images If you try to leave them they threaten to sue you, or they do sue you, or they threaten to post all your content somewhere else and make money off of you.
As the pornography platform has exploded in popularity, a side industry has emerged: middlemen who encourage young women into the industry, then take a large cut of their earnings. Amelia Gentleman looked in depth at the world of OnlyFans management.
‘I am the subject I know best’ … Kahlo and her pets in Self-Portrait with Monkeys, 1943. Photograph: Archivart/Alamy The bar she drank at, the bed she recuperated in, the canals she day tripped to, the studio she stormed out of, the easel she painted her final masterpiece at … ahead of a major Tate show, Andrew Gilchrist found Kahlo’s spirit alive in Mexico City.
3. ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
‘Personal taste has been seriously debased – if not completely destroyed – by technological advancement.’ Illustration: Elia Barbieri/The Guardian We know the internet has radically altered the way we form our opinions and beliefs. Now we’re waking up to another sobering truth: it has wrecked our capacity to form our own preferences. Our favourite music, clothes and books used to be markers of individuality – but the algorithm has made us all sheep. Rachel Aroesti met the style rebels fighting back.
4. Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’
‘Campaigners say they were misled by local authorities who closed the Blue Lagoon in 2022 with a promise to reopen in 90 days.’ Photograph: Destinee Condison/The Guardian Activists argue that a multibillion-dollar all-inclusive tourism business model is “plantation tourism” designed to benefit rich visitors and the elite and disadvantage most Jamaicans. Natricia Duncan and Anthony Lugg spoke to some of them.
5. The cold, hard truth: what you should actually store in the fridge – from red wine to nuts
Chocolate, eggs, tomatoes and red wine: what should you keep in the fridge and what is best at room temperature? Composite: Guardian Design; Dorin Puha; Florencio Horcajo Alvarez; pamela_d_mcadams; seksanwangjaisuk; UroshPetrovic/Getty Images Yours may already be a household where domestic disputes have been caused by the presence – or not – of a ketchup bottle in the fridge; where wondering what to do with your eggs is a cause of constant mild anxiety.
Is chocolate better served chilled? Do bananas go mushy? And won’t someone think of the avocados? Emine Saner delivered the final word on the fridge or cupboard conflict.
‘I was fascinated by him because he seemed to take the ultra philosophy to the next level, while disguising it with charm and eloquence.’ Composite: Alex Mellon for the Guardian : Getty Images Tobias Jones had met many hardcore, violent fans having spent years reporting on Italy’s football ultras. But the hostage-negotiating, cocaine-smuggling, Marxist-Leninist Alessandro Casolari still stood out. He profiled him for this Guardian Long read.
