Are male novelists a dying breed? Can women trust apps with their personal data? Are tariffs the only way Donald Trump knows how to do diplomacy?

Giles Whittell is joined by The Observer’s Home Affairs Editor John Simpson, Head of Data and Graphics Katie Riley and Consulting Editor for Comment, Erica Wagner. 

Links to the team’s Must Reads here: 

• What do tweens really want?
• DOGE-pilled

Read Erica’s piece on the Booker Prize longlist HERE

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Host: Giles Whittell, Deputy Editor-in-Chief 

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