When I gaze deep into my own eyes, what do I see? An iron-willed, crime-crushing flag-raiser whose ascent to the Tory leadership is surely inevitable

I wake up early – earlier than Nigel Farage. Not drinking as much as him helps. But look, no shade. As I keep telling interviewers, I admire Nigel’s longevity. He can keep going for ever, can’t he, aged whatever-he-is and with that lifestyle, which makes his biological age only a couple of months more than Joe Biden’s was last summer. I’m a huge fan.

Then it’s a pacy run round the constituency, or one of the nicer bits of London or Herefordshire if I’m at one of my other houses. If I spot a lamp-post that hasn’t been flagged, I make a mental note to go mental at the team. By next week I want to be photographed St Georgeing anything over 10 foot: wind turbines, 5G masts, the giraffes at London Zoo. Then we stick it on the socials. Run me up the flagpole and see who salutes me.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

As survivors and experts reflect on the storm 20 years on, fear is growing that the US is just as unprepared to take on extreme weather amid cuts to Fema

Darren McKinney grew up in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. When Hurricane Katrina struck 20 years ago this week, he watched his neighborhood wash away. From his second floor apartment, he saw flood waters rise up to his window.

“I had no food at all, no water, no electricity,” he recounted one rainy day this month, while taking a break from his job leading home restoration in the neighborhood as field operations director of the non-profit lowernine.org.

UN official says investigations have been announced before but ‘we haven’t seen results or accountability measures yet’

The UN says that Israel must not only investigate alleged unlawful killings in Gaza like the hospital strike that killed 20 people, including journalists, the previous day, but also ensure those probes yield results.

“There needs to be justice,” United Nations rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told AFP in Geneva, adding that the large number of media workers killed in the Gaza war “raises many, many questions about the targeting of journalists”.

The Israeli authorities have, in the past, announced investigations in such killings.

It’s of course the responsibility of Israel, as the occupying power, to investigate - but these investigations need to yield results.

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As applications to study farming-related courses at UK universities have risen, we would like to hear from students about their reasons for enrolling

Agricultural colleges across the UK have seen a significant increase in applications for land management courses, according to the Times. Applications for the Royal Agricultural University’s three-year rural land management BSc course, for example, have risen 11 per cent compared to 2024. The rise is part of a wider increase in applications to study farming-related courses at UK universities in recent years.

We would like to hear from agriculture students about their reasons for enrolling. What influenced your decision? Are you the first in your family to work in the industry? Or have members of your family worked in agriculture?

The Duchess of Sussex returns with more effortfully whimsical celebrity get-togethers … and she’s still sprinkling flowers over everything

“I like recipes that take, like, four hours. I don’t do fast recipes at all. I like to braise.”

“Wow, that is so fascinating.”