Views of forward-thinking artist and writer who lived off land in national park celebrated at museum in Glastonbury

She was considered an eccentric by some, eking out a frugal existence on a wild English moor, surviving off the land and exchanging her sketches of the countryside for meals.

But the first museum exhibition on the life and work of the largely forgotten nature writer and artist Hope Bourne highlights that her views on the environment, recycling, access to the countryside – even rewilding – were ahead of her time.

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
The Londoner delves into more personal territory in his new show, including the story of his heart failure while on stage several years ago

Emmanuel Sonubi has always hidden behind how he looks: beefy, intimidating by choice, shrink-wrapped in skinny jeans. But now he’s stepping out from behind that image, he tells us – and appearing in his glasses for the first time, as if to prove it. So is this a change in direction for Sonubi, a revealing of the true Emmanuel behind the ex-bouncer shtick? Yes and no. There’s more bounce to his comedy in Life After Near Death, some cheeky-chappy smugness about his success, his manner not quite so smooth and sonorous as before. There are flashes of a greater intimacy too, as our host addresses some grave personal matters. But the show goes only so far in that direction, and no further.

One of the matters in question is the heart failure Sonubi suffered onstage six years ago, and the mini-stroke it triggered. Another is the shame he carried from his troubled childhood, which he suppressed with a hedonistic lifestyle – until his body dramatically resisted. Sonubi outlines all this with a lightness of touch you might admire as skilful, regret as superficial – or accept as both. The Londoner does speak forthrightly about his bygone drink-and-drugs lifestyle, and later about his beloved mum’s cancer diagnosis, but never for long before swerving back to some first-base comedy about “I fucked your mum”, or rude words in BSL, or “I kicked that kid like a fucking penalty.”

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Vijay Rangarajan says Electoral Commission’s material for schools will be impartial and calls on teachers to follow suit

Schools will need to give democracy lessons to children from the age of 11 and ask teachers to leave their politics at the classroom door to help prepare for votes at 16, the head of the UK elections watchdog has said.

Vijay Rangarajan, the chief executive of the Electoral Commission, said democratic education would be rolled out at first to those aged over 14 in preparation for votes at 16 at the next election.

The UN has a power and a legitimacy that could be used to save lives in Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan. But a culture of caution must be addressed

• Martin Griffiths is the former UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs

Birthday parties should be a time for celebration, but when my former United Nations colleagues meet to mark the organisation’s 80th anniversary next month, good cheer is likely to be in short supply.

The UN is in crisis. With the geopolitical picture at its most fractured in decades, this great institution is desperately short of funding and, more importantly, relevance. Across the critical conflicts of the modern world – Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan and others – the UN still plays a vital humanitarian role, but is relegating itself to an increasingly marginal place in primary peacemaking.

Six staff members speak of new arrivals’ exhaustion and ill-health and colleagues’ indifference to their plight

When asylum seekers first arrive at Manston, a former military base outside Ramsgate in Kent, they are ushered from one enormous, grubby marquee to the next for a series of interviews and checks.

As many as 1,000 people a day are processed at the site after crossing the Channel in small boats, and interviews continue through the night. Upon arrival in the UK, exhausted and disorientated, their phones and other belongings are taken from them and placed in distinctive blue plastic bags.