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Three-Ways, U.K.-Style

It’s Netflix/Palace vs. No. 10 for this week’s biggest ratings

Instagram’s Brave New World

Influencers who are computer-generated and who, like their followers, never sleep

The Secret Histories

Collectors and voyeurs vie for other people’s diaries

The King and They

Blinged-out Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand is losing his God-like status as protesters march in the streets

I, Coronavirus

Trump’s real running mate takes a stand

Off the Rails

The famed Ian Allan Book & Model Shop in London, a favorite of railway enthusiasts, is the U.K.’s latest coronavirus casualty

Benched

A former Trump-appointed judge (of the Miss USA pageant) has some advice for Amy Coney Barrett

Scandale à Paris

The millennial French influencer Léna Mahfouf, whose new book is outselling classics, earns the ire of the Parisian intelligentsia

Kind Hearts and a Baronet?

What happens when an eccentric 74-year-old British aristocrat looks for someone to pay him $23,000 to live with him?

Africa Rising

Harvard? Yale? Princeton? A nonprofit program is recruiting Kenya’s top high-school students and connecting them with America’s most competitive universities

No Spring Chickens

Women—most of them single and nearing their mid-30s—are rushing to freeze their eggs as the coronavirus makes finding a partner more difficult

Hugging My Pillow

A day in the Notting Hill life of the great British actor

“Off with Their Euros!”

Welcome to Royalist theme park Puy du Fou, the least woke place in France

Take a Right at the Second Cloud

After 50 years, is one man’s dream of flying cars closer to reality?

Party Like It’s 1929!

Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy

Whatever You Say, Sir!

Trust in the media is as low as the president’s approval rating. Here are the Top 10 media remora of the Trump era

Covid in Connecticut

What a difference six months make

Vick Hope

The rising star in British radio and television brings a focus on diversity and mental health

Boundless as the Sea

The Italian couple who fell in love across their balconies during the height of the coronavirus are finally united—and engaged

Members Only

A Belgian urologist lays out everything a man should know about shape, size, and “penisfulness”

The Ladies Doth Protest

Move over, Simone de Beauvoir! In France, a sex war not between men and women but between feminism’s Old and New Guards

Instascam

Kuwaiti prosecutors charge social-media influencers with money-laundering and boost their online popularity

It’s Just Not Cricket

The world’s snootiest sporting club is being rocked by revolt from within

Planes Have Changed While You Were Away

In the Flying-V, passengers will sit in the wings. It’s also better for the environment