Their green energy conversation went nuclear, but could the engineering manager and the retired maths teacher agree on Brexit?

Michael, 35, Andover

Occupation Engineering manager

Industry data shows suppliers have scaled back premium-priced deals based on renewables as demand falls

The number of green energy tariffs available to British households has plummeted during the cost of living crisis as bill payers choose affordability over sustainability, according to industry data.

Energy suppliers have pulled tariffs advertised as “green” from the market since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered a global energy crisis that pushed gas and electricity bills to record highs.

Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed

• Jonathan Whittall is head of office at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory. He writes here in a personal capacity

Gaza has been held under water for 22 months, allowed to gasp for air only when Israeli authorities have succumbed to political pressure from those with more leverage than international law itself. After months of relentless bombardment, forced displacement and deprivation, the impact of Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza’s people has never been more devastating.

I have been part of coordinating humanitarian efforts in Gaza since October 2023. Whatever lifesaving aid has entered since then has been the exception, not the rule. More than a year after the international court of justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent acts of genocide – and despite all our warnings – we are still witnessing starvation, insufficient access to water, a sanitation crisis and a crumbling health system against a backdrop of ongoing violence that is resulting in scores of Palestinians being killed daily, including children.

Whether it’s quitting a job and hitting the road, selling precious gems or jumping out of a plane, the agony of a breakup can spark huge changes – for better or worse …

She had green eyes that “could see through walls”, Chris remembers, not unruefully. When he and his Russian girlfriend broke up, Chris, originally from Sussex and now living in Maine in the US, admits he had Siberia (Elena came from the city of Novosibirsk) on the mind. He did the obvious thing: went and got a pair of three-month-old Siberian husky puppies: Loki and Freja, brother and sister – also with piercing eyes, but icy blue, especially Loki’s. “People would just stop on the street as he walked by.”

Chris had owned dogs before– labradors. “I figured that huskies were labradors with fur coats on,” he says, talking to me from his pickup truck after an early morning paddle in his kayak. “They absolutely are not.”

Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh
Yannick Trapman-O’Brien’s disarming show is akin to having someone drawing your portrait as he steers a probing conversation

I have been banned from this show. As will you be, if you can nab a ticket. Part of the thrill of this intoxicating slice of occultism, designed for one blindfolded audience member at a time, is your lack of knowledge going into it. No one is allowed to go twice.

What takes place is a summoning, a ritual both dark and deeply sentimental. Through gentle, probing conversation, creator Yannick Trapman-O’Brien demands to know what you desire, and what you are willing to sacrifice to get it. As he leaps and twirls around your mind, his dexterous chatter is confronting, charming and sharp as a pinprick.

Summerhall, Edinburgh
The actor makes his much anticipated writing debut at the fringe with an adventurous show about homemade porn

Kevin and Megan are friends who reap the benefits when a one-night stand is accidentally caught on camera. It captures them at it and she (Natasha Cowley) likes the outcome. “We’re hot,” she says to him (Michael Workeye), watching back the footage. So their pornographic OnlyFans account is born, providing homemade sex videos and an income stream.

Written by David Jonsson , an actor and Bafta Rising Star who has appeared in Industry and Rye Lane , this debut is one of the most anticipated offerings of the fringe.

More Britons in this age group are switching to the video platform, with its shorter, niche and more personal content

UK viewers over the age of 55 watched almost twice as much YouTube last year as they did in 2023, with 42% of them watching on a TV, according to a survey by the communications regulator Ofcom.

Here, six people over 50 describe why they prefer YouTube and how it compares with the broadcast TV they grew up with.

We must avoid inequalities between the global north and global south being perpetuated in the digital age

I come from Trinidad and Tobago. As a country that was once colonized by the British, I am wary of the ways that inequalities between the global north and global south risk being perpetuated in the digital age.

When we consider the lack of inclusion of the global south in discussions about artificial intelligence (AI), I think about how this translates to an eventual lack of economic leverage and geopolitical engagement in this technology that has captivated academics within the industrialised country I reside, the United States.

Krystal Maughan is a PhD student at the University of Vermont studying differential privacy and machine learning

Thanks to stockpiling neither the markets nor consumers have been as badly affected by the trade wars as feared. But signs of trouble are looming

Chaotic and unpredictable, keeping up with Donald Trump’s volatile trade war – never mind his presidency – can be tough.

Back in April after his “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, the talk was of the president crashing the global economy. Then, after a Wall Street backlash , the world learned the acronym “Taco”, which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out”. Now, things are heating up again.