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I’m one of these people who scoffs at reality shows. I sigh loudly and ostentatiously open a book when my wife puts them on the TV, start to take surreptitious glances after ten minutes or so and within half an hour I’m yelling at the telly and positing theories as to what’s going on. And so it has been with Celebrity Traitors, which I swore I’d never stoop to watching, but am now irretrievably hooked on. And why not? It’s a deep dive into the psychology of human deception and hugely addictive to boot.
One of the world’s greatest deceivers must be Vladimir Putin, who has kept the world’s intelligence analysts busily second-guessing what Russia’s up to with the constant stream of drone incursions and its campaigns of misinformation and election interference. International security analysts are coming to the conclusion that the Russian president is embracing what has become known as the “weaponisation of everything” – basically an endless small-scale hybrid war designed to test and eventually wear out the west.
There can be few people who, at some stage in their career, haven’t wanted to tell the boss where they can stick their job and walk out with their head held high. It’s called “revenge quitting”, and while it feels as if it could be very satisfying, it’s rarely good for the employee of the boss concerned – or their fellow workers for that matter. But kudos to the young man in the video with this story who got a brass band to help him resign his job in a toxic workplace.
A friend of mine recently had a nasty bout of shingles, which was very distressing. It was about the third person who I’d heard of that had developed this unpleasant virus in recent months, so I looked it up and apparently it has indeed become more common in recent times. Here’s everything you need to know.
This week I also googled the “Geordie Springsteen” Sam Fender after he won the Mercury prize, puzzled at the ins and outs of the Chinese spying case and why it was dropped, and worried about how long the ceasefire would last in Gaza and what an international peacekeeping force might look like.
As ever, do make time to listen to our award-winning podcast, The Conversation Weekly. This week the team delves into the forever chemicals finding their way into our river system – and what we can do about them.
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