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Chef Fatih Tutak’s perfect day in Istanbul

The man at the helm of Turkey’s first two-Michelin-starred restaurant shares his favourite places to roam, shop and dine on both sides of the Bosphorus

Diary of a garden rescue: ‘Rhubarb is cool, kids’

Recipe: Ginger pork that’s ready in 10 minutes

Former US trade chief Robert Lighthizer: ‘Economists have been wrong on everything!’

The architect of Trump’s first-term tariff policy on the end of free trade, swapping the White House for Wall Street — and why he considers the president ‘the most honest person’

How to be a macroeconomic dove in Trump’s trade war

OnlyFans chief Keily Blair: ‘People can be quite uncomfortable talking about sex’

The Poem: Rain Man by Paul Farley

An extract from the Liverpool-born poet’s sixth collection, which has just been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for poetry

The best books of the week

Free speech in America’s universities; László Krasznahorkai, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature; Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel of extraordinary subtlety; central and eastern Europe’s shifting identity; a rallying cry for scientists; when shopping was absolutely fabulous; a portrait of authoritarianism from Krisztina Tóth; the renaissance of Irish language and folklore — and Suzi Feay on the best new debut novels