Ministers will also press ahead with plan for retirement age of 80 after bill abolishing remaining hereditary peers goes through

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Labour plans to remove peers who do not contribute enough to the House of Lords and to press ahead with plans for a retirement age of 80 from the upper house.

Writing for the Telegraph, the leader of the House of Lords, Angela Smith, said a select committee would consider the next stage of Lords reform after the abolition of hereditary peers.

England, New Zealand and Canada kicked off with victory but there were areas of concern amid the positive results

The three main contenders to win the trophy at Twickenham next month came through their opening group matches at the Rugby World Cup with dominant scorelines but far from perfect performances. England, the hosts, thrashed USA 69-7, Canada overcame Fiji 65-7 and New Zealand beat a resolute and determined Spain 54-8. Have any of them emerged as clear favourites? Let’s take a look at each performance.

The Red Roses admitted they had room for improvement with two particular areas letting them down: restarts and handling errors. When the England head coach, John Mitchell, was asked about the restarts he said: “There is always something to work on, this game is never finite. We will move that into the next preparation. It’s good that we’ve got something to work on.”

The US president has said he is firing Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud allegations – a move experts view as a means to exert more control

• Trump says he is firing Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud claims

Donald Trump has said he is firing Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, in a move viewed as a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greater control over the institution.

A delightful feline arrived at my mum’s house just after she died. I tried to resist his charms, but it was useless - the ‘manypaws’ won

I am at my late mother’s house a lot at the moment, doing what someone memorably coined “sadmin”, and although not all of it is sad by any means – the other day, her neighbours made me some cheese puffs – that is no excuse for the fact that a cat has moved in. My mum spent, conservatively, 80% of her final years estate-planning for her existing cat. She left it a tax-efficient bequest, and found a home for it fancier than anywhere any of us have ever lived. The day after my mum died, Mimi was processing her grief fully ensconced with a family that had bought her a Japanese indoor cat toilet.

Then, wham, a fresh cat appeared. I didn’t immediately start feeding him; definitely half an hour had passed before I gave him a taco, no actual cat food until day two. My third mistake was to get the kids over to meet him, because that led inexorably to mistakes four and five – he now has a name, and my son goes over to feed him on the way back from school. People send me memes about middle-aged women being inexorably drawn to cats. They call it the “manypaws”. That’s a trope as old as time, but what no one ever mentions is how much cats are drawn to middle-aged women. They love us.

The latest collaboration between director Sofia Bohdanowicz and actor Deragh Campbell focusses on the power of art to sustain our emotional lives

This high-minded, dense and in many ways impressive drama about classical music from Canadian director Sofia Bohdanowicz could serve as an introspective companion piece to Tár. Where Todd Fields’ film was concerned with artists out in the world and modern cancel culture, here the focus is unswervingly on art itself: its inner sustaining emotional function for the artist and, more widely, for all of us.

Deragh Campbell stars as academic researcher Audrey Benac, a character she has played before for Bohdanowicz, including in Veslemøy’s Song, the 2018 short from which Measures for a Funeral has been expanded. This time Audrey is on the trail of Kathleen Parlow, a virtuosic real-life 20th-century violinist who, in this film, tutored her grandfather. Music weighs heavily on the Benac family; as Audrey rifles through university archives, she receives guilt-ridden calls from her dying mother, a failed musician who holds her responsible for her stalled career. Carrying her grandfather’s instrument like some form of penance, this timorous student seems to be seeking redemption through her interest in Parlow, a maverick who refused marriage in order to dedicate herself to her art.

• Forward sustained knee injury at Manchester United

• Arsenal must sell to pursue Leverkusen’s Hincapié

Kai Havertz will miss Arsenal’s showdown at Liverpool on Sunday and Germany’s World Cup qualifiers next month, with a decision yet to be made on whether the forward needs surgery on a knee injury.

Havertz picked up the injury during his substitute appearance against Manchester United on the opening Premier League weekend and did not feature in Arsenal’s 5-0 win over Leeds on Saturday. Mikel Arteta said Arsenal were not sure how serious it was and that they would conduct more tests “to explore the issue a little bit further and decide what we’re going to do”.