The Guardian

Expelliarmus.

“Decent savings deals are facing slaughter."

"If Brexit taught us anything, it’s that nobody should just assume Donald J. Trump won’t win."

A taxi driver with a severe mental health disorder who cut the throat of a stranger at a London tube station has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of eight-and-a-half years.

"Today, an entire generation of humanity has been brutalised – whether it experiences mass slaughter, rape and torture firsthand, or whether it simply sees the pictures and hears the stories. If you read any memoir from the 30s and the war years, there is almost always a moment of realisation: what a cadaver looks like; that prisoners can be shot; that the Geneva conventions may be flouted. Sadly, in sheer brutality, we are past the 1930s – and in the struggle between governments and civilian populations the Geneva conventions do not apply."

"Perhaps the loss of her son had robbed her of words. Or maybe she feared she might break down on the national stage if she uttered his name. But that’s not how Trump reasoned. Instead, he suggested that she, a Muslim woman, hadn’t been allowed to talk."

"Faecal transplants (infusions of donor faeces down a nasal tube or up the rectum into the gut) are used to treat these extremely unwell patients, proving that disruption of the gut microbiome can cause serious illness and restoring it to normal can cure the problem."

From the Syrian member of the IOC’s refugee team who swam for more than three hours in the open sea to get to Greece after the small boat she was on started to capsize to Caster Semenya, 100 of the most exciting Olympians and their incredible stories.

"The honours system is rather like the royal family: fine until it starts reverting to type."

“Honestly no, I no longer have faith after what happened. Because when we were beaten, I would say, ‘God, please save us.’ And my torturer would say, ‘You whore, you think God will save you?’ And he would beat me more. We couldn’t say the word Allah, not even within our hearts.”

Punks, prams and car parks. Britain warts and all.

From walking the financial crash in Reykjavik to a polaroid tour of Warsaw and an erotic trip around Barcelona.

"When Luke Carine treated Zak Tomlinson to a KFC in Douglas for their first date in 2010, he had no idea that six years later, they would be making history. Yesterday, wearing matching grey suits and blue cravats, trailed by four men-maids, the opthalmic scientists became the first same-sex couple to get married on the Isle of Man."

"I imagined mucky children with blackberries strewn in their unbrushed hair, hurtling amok through hedges, gobbling chicken legs. Instead, everyone behaved impeccably – including the adults."

Omid Djalili: The guy on before me was an “alternative ventriloquist” who drank beer while working his puppet’s mouth. He got booze everywhere. “Please will you welcome Omar Darjeeling!” said the compere. I pranced on and slipped in all his spillage. I picked myself up and clambered to the microphone, which refused to budge from the stand. When it finally did, it hit my head with such force a three-inch cut appeared across my brow. “Bollocks!” I said. Then I realised I’d pulled the mic so hard the cord had disconnected. So I took a step forward to pick it up and fell headfirst off the stage.'

"As a wheelchair user I’ve travelled on the Barcelona tube, the New York bus system and I frequently use the Overground in London. Yet this recent Southern rail experience counts as the most stressful and confusing I’ve had in a while. If there are further cuts and the removal of conductors, as has been mooted, this operator will definitely have no equality of service."

Six weeks after the death of MP Jo Cox, charged talk of ‘traitors’, ‘vermin’ and ‘back-stabbing’ has not gone away. For Donald J. Trump, such confrontational rhetoric is second nature. And, worryingly, the link between violent words and actions may be closer than you think...

"Were Arsenal to dig deep and make the two signings that even Arsène Wenger – through words and deeds – has indicated are needed, the mood would be transformed. But at the time of writing, and as England’s other top clubs make statements of intent on the market, it is easy to sense the fretting from fans."

"Were Theresa May of a different temperament, I suppose she might have been content to devolve the decision about Hinkley. But the other important players are also new to their jobs and we know that she is not an instinctive delegator. She doesn’t like to be rushed or bounced."

"David Cameron’s intended honours list is the political equivalent of the Prussian army granting medals to its senior officers after being smashed by Napoleon at Jena – a gesture of pure defiance in the face of humiliation."