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Soya far, so good in vegan-butcher wars Six people were detained in northern France this week over a string of attacks on butcher and fish shops by vegan activists. Nine businesses in Lille, including a cheese shop and a McDonald’s, were targeted, their windows broken and anti-meat slogans painted on walls. Often the graffiti included the phrase ‘Stop Speciesism’, a term used by animal rights activists to suggest that people who eat meat are behaving immorally against other species.

Given that her 2012 Oscar nomination was for a role in which she played a woman masquerading as a man (Albert Nobbs) – it should come as no surprise that Glenn Close has waded in on the debate surrounding Scarlett Johansson's contentious casting as a transgender man in the now–dormant film Rub & Tug. Johansson has since withdrawn from playing Dante "Tex" Gill after facing significant backlash.

© Anthony Devlin/PA Archive/PA Images James Blake poses after winning the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize at the Roundhouse, Camden. Singer James Blake has revealed that he suffered with "existential depression on a daily basis," at the beginning of his career.