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1. Washington Post stirs up fury in liberal America over neutral election stance; Failure to endorse any US presidential candidate for first time in decades 'undermines' paper's independence, say critics

4. Are energy performance certificates worth the paper they're written on? EPCs are meant to be a vital insight into how energy efficient a property is. But many are out of date and can be misleading; EPCs are meant to be a vital insight into how energy efficient a property is. But many are out of date and can be misleading

5. Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds; A review of 1,930 papers into home working found major pluses, but also downsides such as antisocial hours and being overlooked for promotion

7. We should cherish handwriting: the scribbled, the scrawled, the stubbornly jotted; Our communications lose character when we give up putting pen to paper. It's hard to imagine an Auden poem celebrating the arrival of the night email

8. Maxwell's PR adviser accused Epstein victim of 'crying rape' in past allegations; Court papers show Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice was told by her 'reputation manager' that reports about Virginia Giuffre's past were 'helpful leakage'

10. Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review -- a show full of surprises; Royal Academy, LondonFrom Monet's pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro's summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close

13. Himmler ordered mass execution of prisoners in Britain's only Nazi camp, documents reveal; Papers from SS headquarters uncover instruction to kill up to 1,000 enslaved labourers on island of Alderney

14. Caught short: lack of recycled toilet paper in UK 'fuelling deforestation'; Less office waste material during Covid has led big lavatory roll makers to cut amount of recycled paper in tissues, according to consumer body

17. A few scoops down at the local: the rise and fall of a community paper; A new exhibition charts the fortunes of an idiosyncratic freesheet, the Abertillery and Ebbw Valleys Dynamic, and the two men who tried to keep it afloat

18. AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics -- in paper written by chatbot; Lecturers say programs capable of writing competent student coursework threaten academic integrity

19. A gambling white paper by Easter would be a turn-up for the books; A shakeup may cover maximum stakes and a statutory levy on gaming firms, but football sponsorship deals remain a thorny issue

20. There's one winner in the Biden documents discovery: Donald Trump; Biden's retention of classified papers is different from the Mar-a-Lago case, but it is a big setback for his administration

21. Splitting the atomic scientists: how the Ukraine war ruined physics; At Cern and elsewhere, a reluctance to give Russian researchers authorship credit on new papers has led to stalemate

22. Men reporting badly! Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe find being hacks is no joke; The comedians chase local paper scoops in their new TV series Hold the Front Page. But many of their stories were destined for what reporters call the spike

23. 'I've never regretted doing it': Daniel Ellsberg on 50 years since leaking the Pentagon Papers; The man who exposed US lies about the Vietnam war says the culture of official secrecy is worse today. But he urges whistleblowers: 'Don't wait years till the bombs are falling and people have been dying'

24. After 50 years, the Pentagon Papers give up their final secrets; Journalist behind scoop reveals how he tricked whistleblower to get copies of explosive Vietnam war reports

25. Mary, Queen of Scoffs: jailed monarch ate only the best, papers reveal; Newly discovered official accounts show that, while a prisoner of Elizabeth I, her cousin lived a life of luxury

26. The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club review -- the joy of turning over an old leaf; Christopher de Hamel's account of the people who created illuminated manuscripts in the middle ages, and those who now preserve them, is a witty treat

28. Gambling review delay lets Premier League football clubs strike sponsorship deals; Campaigners are outraged that the stalled white paper has allowed three top English sides to sign new front-of-shirt agreements

30. The week in TV: Irma Vep; The Sandman; All or Nothing: Arsenal; Paper Girls; It's meta madness as Olivier Assayas gets to remake his own film as a TV series; Old Testament meets Ouija board in Neil Gaiman's dark fantasy; and the Gunners get a going over

31. The Chief by Andrew Roberts review -- the original alpha Mail; Access to the papers of Lord Northcliffe, founder of the Daily Mail, gives the historian a wealth of detail to work with, but significant questions go unanswered

32. Paper Cuts by Ted Kessler review -- ode to the glory days, and slow demise, of the music press; This colourful, self-deprecating memoir charts the author's journey from light-fingered record shop employee to editor of Q magazine until it folded in 2020, with guest appearances from Paul Weller, Mark E Smith et al

33. The week in theatre: Rock/ Paper/ Scissors; The Fellowship; Crucible/Lyceum/Studio theatre, Sheffield; Hampstead theatre, LondonTiming is everything in Chris Bush's theatre-hopping trio of Sheffield plays; the same goes for Roy Williams's ill-starred new Windrush generation drama

34. Secret British 'black propaganda' campaign targeted cold war enemies; Britain stirred up tensions, chaos and violence in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, according to declassified papers

35. In brief: Idol; The Paper Palace; Dinner With Joseph Johnson -- review; A public challenge for a lifestyle guru, Miranda Cowley Heller's outstanding debut and the vibrant world of 18th-century publishing

36. The Palace Papers review -- a rollicking ride through recent royal family history; Tina Brown's sparkling prose and eye for detail enliven an entertaining exposé -- with a little help from Prince Andrew and his 50-strong crew of teddy bears

37. The Standard in crisis: read all about it, but for how much longer? As London's 'local' paper hits troubled times, we examine the profitable past and challenging future for Britain's provincial press; As London's 'local' paper hits troubled times, we examine the profitable past and challenging future for Britain's provincial press

38. Black Paper by Teju Cole review -- how do we defy these dark times? The novelist and critic travels through genres and across the globe in these thoughtful, powerful essays about the lives of migrants and man's inhumanity; The novelist and critic travels through genres and across the globe in these thoughtful, powerful essays about the lives of migrants and man's inhumanity

41. 'Balancing the books' look goods on paper, Rishi Sunak. But it's not so pretty on the ground; The budget to foot the coronavirus bill will inflict more miseries on the less well-off

44. I'd like to make a complaint... Why some of us are so good at making a fuss; Were you the child whose indignant letter yielded a free bar of chocolate? Séamas O'Reilly puts pen to paper to reveal why we are a nation of complainers

47. Green and tonic: gin in paper bottles is the new eco-tipple; Packagers step up production of 'frugal' containers as consumers embrace sustainable alternative

49. UN report deepens fears that Ethiopia's Tigray conflict could be long and brutal; Confidential papers warn that, despite talk of success, army faces heavy resistance and regional stability is at risk