Thinktank predicts wider inequality gap and calls for revised policies to tackle flying and excess private car use

Inequality in transport emissions between the richest and the poorest in the UK is set to widen dramatically over the next decade, an analysis has found.

The most affluent and mobile already produce 10 times more carbon through their domestic travel than the poorest and least mobile. Under current decarbonisation policies, thinktank researchers forecast this to grow to 13 times by 2035.

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“Seven of the nine matches in Ligue 1 last weekend finished 1-0,” notes Liam Togher. “That’s 78% of the games. Has there ever been a more common instance of one specific scoreline in a single gameweek?”

This is a question that George Graham would love, and Chris Roe has done the hard yards to find an example that can beat the above though, alas, it doesn’t involve the Arsenal team of the late 1980s who made 1-0 scorelines famous.

This unusual debut explores the inner life of a woman in an insular American religious community

Inspired by the author’s own experience, Kate Riley’s debut novel depicts one woman’s life in the US chapter of an international Anabaptist sect. “The Brotherhood” is an insular and reactionary society founded by German emigrants. All property is held in common and centrally rationed in “a constantly recalibrating state of voluntary poverty”; collectivity is so rigidly enforced that even the family unit is considered a potential threat, with youngsters periodically rehoused in different families. Women (“sisters”) are assigned dowdy dresses in order to repress desire, and merely humming a tune is a guilty pleasure. This bleak way of life is rendered in a series of episodic dispatches, and the title character’s inner life is imparted in a free indirect third person as she grapples with doubt, shame and boredom.

Ruth is knock-kneed and clumsy, prone to malingering and fixated on language. She feels guilty if she rehashes a joke – because self-plagiarism might constitute “empty speech”, which is a sin. Having been raised in such an austere environment, her mind is blown on her first day at a public high school: “Enumerating the varieties of blue jeans made her think very seriously of infinity … The running list of exotic clothing she’d witnessed … ennobled her impulse to stare..” Time and again her thoughts circle back to the riddle of visual pleasure. “Beauty was an argument, but for what?” For Stendhal it meant the promise of happiness, and it connotes something similar here: life force, connection. Ruth is terribly lonely, plagued by a “constant lugubrious awareness of her own isolation”; “all she wanted was a friend who knew she was suffering but would not make her talk about it”. Instead, she marries a man she finds boring, has three children with him and sinks into depression. Decades pass in the blink of an eye. On a road trip for their 21st anniversary, we find her staring out from the passenger seat like a sullen teenager: “Every passing car was an opportunity to project pathos; she made eye contact and tried to look like a woman abducted.”

Jasmine Mathews has real star quality as one of a group of environmentalists navigating a violent rightwing dystopia

It used to be zombies we were afraid of; now, rightwing secessionists are the big bad – zombies of a different order, you might say. They are the antagonists in this low-budget but well-performed survival drama from Canada, which posits escalating clashes between environmentalists and a neo-Nazi militia calling itself the United Conservancy (UC) that has formed a breakaway state somewhere along the north-eastern seaboard of North America. Ordinary citizens who just want to survive and don’t want to make America great again are compelled to huddle together in rural isolation.

It’s in one such cell that we meet sisters Nia (Jasmine Mathews) and Penny (Vinessa Antoine), who are living with a diverse assortment of other decent folk. In their cottage-core accommodation, the group live off homegrown and foraged food, and occasionally have spirit-lifting drink parties. But not long after Nia discovers she’s pregnant – her boyfriend Ethan (Douglas Smith) and she have been trying for ages and had given up hope of conceiving – they encounter some UC thugs in an abandoned town. Nia shoots one, sort of in self-defence and sort of because he’s clearly a racist bigot. Her act brings more UC militiamen to their home, and the whole cell has to fight or surrender, although they’re badly outgunned and surrendering is clearly no guarantee of safety.

Objects buried at Great Ormond Street hospital dug up early to make way for construction of children’s cancer centre

More than 30 years after it was buried, a time capsule compiled by Diana, Princess of Wales and two children to represent life in the 1990s has been opened prematurely – revealing a Kylie Minogue CD, a solar-powered calculator and a passport.

The lead-encased wooden box was sealed in 1991 to mark the laying of the foundation stone of Great Ormond Street hospital’s Variety Club building, which opened in 1994 to replace outdated buildings and clinical facilities.

Kevin Hollinrake says party would ‘potentially’ set up returns agreement with country as he says deportation plan is ‘far more comprehensive’ than Reform’s

Nigel Farage has been accused of “ugly” and “destructive” rhetoric after announcing plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and pledging to pay despotic regimes such as the Taliban to take them back.

Unveiling Reform UK’s “Operation Restoring Justice” at a combative press conference in Oxford, Farage said he would rip up the UK’s postwar human rights commitments, contained in a range of international conventions, to deport “absolutely anyone” – including women and children – arriving by small boat.

We really are through the looking-glass now. Nigel Farage pretending to be patriotic while pledging to rip up Britain’s proud record of leading the world on human rights.

As we’ve seen across history, his populist playbook is ugly, powerful and incredibly destructive. We know where it will lead if we don’t stop it.

If today feels like a Rubicon moment, it’s because it is. We are hearing proposals that would tear through centuries of British legal tradition – from the Magna Carta to the Human Rights Act – with barely any resistance from those who should be defending those values.

The ban on torture is absolute and fundamental; it cannot be bargained away. That mainstream parties have failed to push back is deeply alarming. This isn’t about migration policy any more, it’s about whether we still value the basic human rights and freedoms that define a democratic society. Now more than ever, we must fight against the normalisation of this rhetoric.