We asked experts how to approach conflict with family, romantic partners and co-workers – and how to do it better

Reality TV is generally not the first place one should turn to find models of effective communication. That’s why it was shocking to watch a scene in the latest season of Love Island US, in which Chris, a basketball player, asks the woman he’s seeing – Huda, a fitness influencer – if there’s anything he does that bothers her.

It affects his mood “when something goes wrong, but I’m confused about what happened”, he says.

• Indoor domes will be built in Luton and Preston

• Rishi Sunak announced £35m plan in April 2024

The government has watered down its predecessor’s pledge of a £35m investment to build grassroots cricket facilities and widen access for state school pupils after describing the previous regime’s announcement as a “fantasy”.

Under an alternative plan announced on Monday, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has given £1.5m to the England and Wales Cricket Board to build two indoor domes in Luton and Preston, but the Guardian has learned that the rest of the money may not materialise.

Labour source says questions around deputy PM’s new seaside flat are motivated by political opportunism

Angela Rayner’s allies have hit back at James Cleverly, accusing the shadow housing secretary of having “some brass neck” for criticising the deputy prime minister over her council tax arrangements on a property she bought this year.

Rayner acquired the seaside flat in Hove, East Sussex, for more than £700,000. The property is subject to the 100% council tax premium on second homes that was introduced in April, which she now pays in full.

Share details of a late summer break you’ve enjoyed – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays break

In July and August, many parts of southern Europe and the Med are too hot and too crowded for comfort. But as summer turns to autumn it’s not just the temperature that drops – prices are lower too, and visitors get to experience a gentler, more relaxed side to places as the season starts to wind down. We’d love to hear about your favourite late-season sunshine escapes.

The best tip of the week, chosen by Tom Hall of Lonely Planet wins a £200 voucher to stay at a Coolstays property – the company has more than 3,000 worldwide. The best tips will appear in the Guardian Travel section and website.

The Tor network’s privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse material

Millions of child predators are forming sprawling online communities on the dark web using the Tor network, where criminal behavior escalates through the sharing of child sexual abuse material, grooming strategies and normalization of exploitation, experts say. Despite repeated warnings of a growing number of predators taking advantage of it, Tor’s developers have taken no action to curb the spread of this content, critics say.

The Tor (“the onion router”) network is an anonymity-focused internet system that routes traffic through a global web of volunteer-run servers to obscure users’ identities and locations. By encrypting data in multiple layers – like that of an onion – Tor makes digital activity difficult to trace.