The Green party is in existential crisis this weekend. Zack Polanski’s failure to secure a parliamentary seat in Holborn and St Pancras is only part of the picture. The membership’s motion on Zionism has been disowned by sister parties in Europe, leaving the party isolated. As politics expert Charles Lees explains, damage control is urgently needed.
A huge new study has shown that women are more emotionally intelligent than men. This is perhaps not surprising – and the study’s authors had indeed been looking to test out what was already widely assumed when they embarked on the research. But they also wanted to investigate whether there is something innate in this difference. They say it’s far more likely that women learn to pick up on other people’s feelings because of societal expectations and become better at it over the course of a life spent practising. They told us why that’s a big problem.
If a weekend of meal prepping lies ahead for you, it might be time to think about food hygiene. Big batch cooking is all the rage and can leave you with meals ready to reheat for the whole working week. But storing food in the fridge for several days also carries risk. We asked our resident food poisoning expert how to prepare, store and, crucially, reheat your food without ending up regretting it. A lot comes down working out what does and doesn’t need to comply with what she calls “the 24-hour rule”.
Also this week, the disturbing world of anatomical waste disposal, the unusual senses enjoyed by reptiles and some reassuring information about the plague scare in Russia.
