Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days.
The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’
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.
‘Is it true she bombed her school?’ My thrilling week in the footsteps of Frida Kahlo
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.
‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
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. Rachel Aroesti met the style rebels fighting back.
Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’
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.
The cold, hard truth: what you should actually store in the fridge – from red wine to nuts
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. Emine Saner delivered the final word on the fridge or cupboard conflict.
‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras
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.
