Profound lessons from dog training, the story of the Brexit campaign and France’s struggle with heat-trap homes
1. What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings View image in fullscreen ‘Controlling a dog, like controlling a
1. What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings View image in fullscreen ‘Controlling a dog, like controlling a small child, requires a mixture of training, routine, incentives, rewards and physical constraints.’ Illustration: Anaïs Mims/Guardian Design double quotation mark We are all familiar with the cliches of Britain as a ‘nation of animal lovers’, but we often overlook quite how weird and remarkable it is that we have, for the most part successfully, integrated a vast number of autonomous, non-human entities into a human system of rights and wrongs. William Davies wrote about how a lovable yet unruly boxer, Dusty, forced him to wonder: if a dog has no morals, how do you teach it to be ‘good’? Read more 2. ‘Geldof started flicking Vs at Farage’: the story of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front-row seat View image in fullscreen It’s been a decade since the UK voted to leave the EU.
Key players look back at the momentous months of the campaign. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/PA/Rex/Shutterstock/AP Guardian journalists interviewed a range of MPs, officials and other key players to produce this multi-perspective account of the five months in 2016 that shaped the UK’s future, encompassing Boris Johnson siding with Vote Leave, Jo Cox’s murder and David Cameron’s resignation. Read more 3. ‘Degrading’: why did a US fighter pilot avoid British trial after strangling a woman in England? View image in fullscreen Capt Jacob Wulfson’s case was tried at a court martial on a US airbase according to US military law. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Benjamin Smith Jacob Wulfson’s fellow airmen decided his fate after a court martial on a US airbase. Harry Davies and Rob Evans wrote this moving dispatch about one of several cases uncovered by the Guardian in which UK police and prosecutors appear to be ceding responsibility to their American military counterparts.
Read more 4. Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies View image in fullscreen Cory Doctorow at his home in Los Angeles. Photograph: Jessica Pons/The Guardian double quotation mark You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people. The writer who coined the term ‘enshittification’ spoke to Zoe Williams about why AI will never live up to its promises – and why it still appeals so much to those in power. Read more 5. Europe’s heatwave: French struggle with heat-trap homes as climate inequality grows View image in fullscreen Residents in low-income housing estates in France are suffering the most from the record-breaking heat. Photograph: Ed Alcock/The Guardian double quotation mark My home is an oven, it’s unbearable.
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