Far-right violence continued last night, with police officers attacked and injured in Plymouth, Belfast and Darlington. The government has brought forward plans to create more than 500 extra prison places, and said there is “no justification” for Elon Musk’s bizarre claim that “civil war is inevitable” in Britain. Bangladesh was plunged into political chaos yesterday after the prime minister resigned and fled the country in a helicopter. The dramatic departure of Sheikh Hasina, who had been in power for 15 years, came after weeks of deadly student-led protests over her increasingly autocratic rule. People with type 2 diabetes can reverse the condition with a strict “soup and shakes” diet, the NHS has found. After a year on the programme, where calories are limited to around 800 a day for 12 weeks and then gradually increased after that, a third of patients effectively went into remission.

Farage’s dog-whistle politics

When Nigel Farage became an MP this year, says Eliot Wilson in The Spectator, he talked excitedly about creating a “bridgehead in parliament” and bragged that his party was “coming for Labour”. What the past week has revealed is just how unsuited he is to life in Westminster. When the Home Secretary made a speech condemning the despicable far-right violence, even Farage’s fellow Reform MP Lee Anderson managed to agree. But Farage appears not to have been in the chamber at all, preferring to muse darkly on social media about the tragic stabbings that sparked the rioting and “whether the truth is being withheld from us”. Rather than airing his “slyly inflammatory” views in parliament, where he’d face vigorous opposition from fellow MPs, he prefers monologuing “unchallenged” on social media.

Farage has become a “diminished man” since entering the Commons and discovering that he is “suddenly nobody”, says Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday. He finds himself in a “dingy, ignored corner of Westminster” watching a Labour government he detests wield the giant majority he helped them achieve. Even his “most fervent and dimmest supporters” must be wondering what they’ve done. And how frustrating to descend from the “brilliantly lit world” of champagne, chauffeur-driven cars and endless TV appearances, to sitting in a cramped office fielding complaints from the citizens of Clacton about streetlights, dog fouling and drains. His hero Donald Trump escaped such boredom by “ceaselessly blowing the biggest dog whistle in the world”, so it’s no surprise Nigel is giving it a try. And now we have “louts attacking mosques”.

If you’re sick of your iPhone always running out of battery, says Max Buondonno in ZDNet, “you’re not alone”. Happily, there are a few things you can do to make things better, like turning off “Hey Siri” detection, reducing the number of notifications you receive, and deactivating AirDrop. Each change only saves a little battery, but it all adds up: the “always on” display saps 1% an hour, potentially draining almost a quarter of your battery every day with zero benefit. For nine other easy tips, click here.

You may think most Olympians do it for the glory, says CNBC, but in some countries getting on the podium comes with a pretty tasty cash reward. Hong Kong and Singapore pay their athletes around $750,000 for a gold medal, $380,000 for silver, and $190,000 for bronze. Others with big bonuses for golds include Indonesia ($300,000), Israel ($271,000) and Kazakhstan ($250,000). The Americans get $38,000; the Australians just $13,000. Team GB get nothing from the government but a good old-fashioned sense of achievement.

The hidden cost of net zero: violence in Africa

The transition to renewable energy will generate conflict “in ways we haven’t even begun to address”, says Andrew Gilmour in the FT. We’ve already seen the violence of the 2018 gilets jaunes protests in France, but that was relatively “mild”. Net zero is increasingly a “wedge issue” in culture wars and elections across the developed world. “Radicalism on both sides may deepen and even turn violent.” But whatever happens in western Europe and North America will be “dwarfed” by what happens in countries like Iraq, Libya and Nigeria. These economies are dominated by fossil fuels – accounting for more than 89% of exports in each case – and already suffer domestic corruption and violence as a result.

The governments hit hardest will be those whose budgets rely on oil revenues to provide basic services, jobs, subsidies and security for their populations. The fracturing of that social contract, and the ensuing deprivation, will almost certainly lead to “rebellion, intercommunal conflict and accelerated recruitment to extremist armed groups” such as Boko Haram, al Qaeda and Islamic State, “as well as violent repression by governments in response”. And regions rich in minerals that are essential for renewable tech will probably face the same “resource curse” that has afflicted many oil producers. Take the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has 70% of the world’s cobalt and the seventh-largest reserves of copper. Armed groups battle over control of the mines and use the revenues to continue decades-old conflicts. Demand from the green transition means the value of these mines will keep rising over the long term – and so will the incentives to keep fighting over them.

Can you identify the film from the emojis above? Every day, the website M🙂jie has three of these brainteasers, all linked by a loose theme: for the question above – the answer for which is at the bottom of the email – the theme is “NATO ABCs”. You have four guesses, and if you need clues you can be given the genre, director, main star and year of release. Give today’s a go here.

When my house phone rings, says Lynn Barber in The Times, there’s a chance it’s one of my daughters or a very old friend, but most of the time it’s scammers. There’s one who calls so regularly at noon “that I use her as a reminder to put lunch on”. Usually I just slam the phone down, but sometimes I have a bit of fun. I ask them to spell their name out, stay on the line while I find a bit of paper, spell out the name of their company and its address, and then get them to repeat it all “because I’m a bit deaf”. They usually give up. And if they still persist, I say I think I’m having a heart attack and could they please call an ambulance. “They’re gone in a flash.”

It’s a rarely spotted Canada Lynx, caught striking a majestic pose in the woodlands of northern Minnesota. Video footage of the elusive species, known for its long fur and snowshoe-like paws, was captured on a trail camera monitoring wolves in the woodlands of Voyageurs National Park. “A lot of fortuitous things have to happen, not only for the lynx to sit there, but for the lighting to be nice, and for there to be that pretty, North Woods background,” project leader Tom Gable tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Those are the things that make it really cool.” Watch the full video here.

Emoji quiz answer: Romeo + Juliet