Six great reads: the folly of the Cybertruck, six conversations we need to have – and a gentleman crook

1. The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?

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The Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn’t possibly pass up – a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road rage-inducing street tank that’s illegal to drive in most of the world?

With the backlash against Elon Musk’s Tesla still in full flow around the world, Andrew Lawrence took a deep look at its most unique creation, which was launched as a purported “Doomsday chariot” and is now the butt of thousands of memes.

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2. ‘I had a chance to pass my mum’s story on’: Kazuo Ishiguro on growing up in shadow of the Nagasaki bomb

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First published in 1982, Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills is a charged family story that connects England with Japan and the present with the past. The story lightly excavates the Nobel-winning author’s family history and his own hybrid identity as a child of Nagasaki, transplanted to the UK at the age of five. Ahead of a new film version, Ishiguro spoke to Xan Brooks about the complexities of blended heritage and his great love of cinema.

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3. Six conversations that will unlock your relationships, from first date to old friends

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In polarising times, when technology has too often made us even more isolated, opportunities for meaningful conversation can go unnoticed. But what are we really missing? What do we forgo when we don’t take the chance to talk? And which conversations matter most? Here, experts told Deborah Linton the six conversations we should be having with one other, but aren’t.

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4. ‘I’ve never known fear like it’: Tom Kerridge on booze, bad-boy chefs and the crisis for pubs and restaurants

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“I’m engulfed in charcoal smoke. Through the fog I spy a countertop laden with slabs of raw meat – a leg of lamb here, a tomahawk steak there. And presiding over two enormous kamado grills is Tom Kerridge, 6ft 3in tall and with a meat cleaver in one hand and a butcher’s saw in the other.”Michelin-starred chef Kerridge prides himself on his “socialist” business empire. But the hospitality trade is struggling – and so are his staff. What would he change if he had the power? Tim Jonze headed to Marlow, Buckinghamshire, the base of Kerridge’s gastro-empire to find out.

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5. I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’

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In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – until they weren’t … Astrid Probst met the 100-year-old Feuchtwanger, perhaps the last living person to have met Hitler, at his home in England to share his story of living next to one of history’s great monsters.

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6. An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

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With his brilliant mind and impeccable credentials, it’s little wonder that wealthy clients trusted him with their fortunes. Then they started to get suspicious … this brilliant long read by Hettie O’Brien follows an extraordinary story of trust and financial crime that left a handful of clients millions of pounds out of pocket.

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