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Rapper claims woman and her lawyers knowingly proceeded with false claim that he and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her when she was 13

Jay-Z is suing the anonymous woman who in February withdrew a lawsuit accusing the rapper of rape, claiming that she and her lawyers knowingly proceeded with a false claim.

Jay-Z (AKA Shawn Carter) said that the woman, referred to as Jane Doe in the suit, admitted to his representatives that she had falsified her account of Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raping her when she was 13, at an afterparty for the 2000 MTV Video Music awards. His suit, filed in Alabama, where she lives, names both the woman and her lawyers Tony Buzbee and David Fortney.

It’s not mine and I don’t know where it came from. I’m just hoping that someone will take it away again

I’m going to do one of those tricks like a magician with a ball and cups, because it is imperative for legal reasons that I don’t say which of the household’s three teenagers was involved in this thing … but on Sunday morning I woke up and there was a wheelbarrow in the kitchen. Cross-examination revealed that some other party had removed it from its original home, but it had ended up in our house because they didn’t want to take it on the tube. Nobody knew whence it had come, so it couldn’t be returned. I immediately suggested we put soil in it and plant vegetables, because that’s what passes for moral guidance in my world. You can strip the fun out of any misdeed if you make the end result boring enough. The counter-suggestion, from the person who definitely didn’t take it, was that we fill it with ice and beer and have one continuous party. There was no plausible compromise between these two ideas, so it currently sits in our front garden, waiting for someone to grab it back off us.

I don’t know when it leaves you, the urge to pilfer things. I would never have stolen a thing with an (individual) owner (a dog, a bike), and I’d never have taken a traffic cone, because it was just too much of a drunken cliche. But when I was young I stole a fire bucket, which was incredibly heavy, being full of sand. I stole a gigantic, very recently cut down log because I thought it would make a good table, but in fact it was kind of still alive and it rotted the carpet, then the floorboard underneath, and, if I hadn’t moved house, would have ultimately, I think, crashed into the room below. I stole a flashing orange light from a building site, and a spoon from British Rail (that’s going back a bit), and a long piece of felt – all of this completely directionless, none of it even as useful as a wheelbarrow. Then, one day, I just stopped. Now I’d be much more likely to leave things in places.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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Caribbean country’s steel band competition, held this year amid escalating violence, celebrates an instrument born out of colonial resistance

A crescent moon hung in the cloudless sky over Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), as steel pan orchestras pushed through a throng of thousands of supporters who had gathered to greet them outside the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain.

They were on their way to the final round of the Caribbean country’s national steel band competition: the culmination of months of rehearsal.

Caribbean country’s steel band competition, held this year amid escalating violence, celebrates an instrument born out of colonial resistance

A crescent moon hung in the cloudless sky over Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), as steel pan orchestras pushed through a throng of thousands of supporters who had gathered to greet them outside the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain.

They were on their way to the final round of the Caribbean country’s national steel band competition: the culmination of months of rehearsal.

Charges of hypocrisy do not land if the supposed hypocrite is not committed to any kind of consistency in the first place

Historians and psychologists will study when exactly the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy started to descend into political disaster. A plausible contender for an answer is the – in itself trivial – moment when Brian Glenn, representative of far-right outlet Real America’s Voice (newly admitted to the press pool) asked the Ukrainian president why he was not wearing a suit.

That framing – the wartime president was somehow “disrespecting” America – was then picked up in the vile attack on Zelenskyy by JD Vance and repeated by a chorus of sycophants in the Republican party (including Glenn’s girlfriend Marjorie Taylor Greene). Critics immediately pointed out the hypocrisy: if Elon Musk can appear in a T-shirt and a baseball cap at a cabinet meeting, what is wrong with someone wearing fatigues? That gotcha might provide momentary psychological satisfaction – but it’s important to understand why the charges of hypocrisy achieve little with the Maga-world and why, as a matter of political psychology, something different is needed.