Ben Sixsmith

How the concept of “division” has become delusional or opportunistic Ten years ago, Jacques Hamel, a humble Catholic priest in Normandy, was stabbed to death by a Muslim man who had pledged his allegiance to ISIS. Two days ago, in Berlin, a woman was killed at Berlin Pride by a van that the police allege was driven by a man who had attempted to join ISIS.

Politicians have to stop being so intolerant when it comes to disrespect How funny is it to confuse a parrot and a parakeet? Not very. I can understand Stella Creasy MP feeling bewildered by the scale of the response to her misunderstanding — and by the vitriolic tone of some of the responses. But she had a choice. She could have rolled with the punches, laughed along with the jokes, and, say, posted a video of her parliamentary colleagues asking if anyone had lost their sloths.

How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture The writer Jim Goad has been reported to have died. “Writer” doesn’t really work as a description for Goad. A lot of his work might be better described as events than literature — far more talked about than it was actually read. Answer Me!, which Goad created with his then wife Debbie, was a 1990s zine which was a portent of 2000s internet culture — obscene, provocative, cynical and eclectic.