“When you think of it”, Donald Trump said earlier this year, “we shouldn’t even have an election.” A chilling threat, or empty bluster? He has tried to steal an election before, of course. Democrats, fearing that past is prologue, expect more chicanery in the midterms. Our briefing walks through various nightmare scenarios and assesses their feasibility.

And our culture columnist considers a new Michael Jackson biopic, out today. The music is uncancellable: “a bit like Picasso”, his songs “have proved too good to abjure”. The rest of the megastar’s life, however, is presented not just incompletely, but strangely.

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There are lots of luxury brands in Deji, the country’s highest-grossing mall. But it’s the restrooms that people are coming to visit

$585m, the value of Chinese whisky sold overseas last year, up from $5m a decade earlier. Read about how the tipple is thriving.