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People living in tents in northern France hoping to find asylum in England face increasing intimidation from police and far-right agitators

In the decade since the demolition of the “Jungle”, an area of Calais where thousands of asylum seekers set up makeshift shelters before embarking on Channel crossings to the UK, everything and nothing has changed.

This week, in a woodland clearing not far from one of Calais’s busy main roads, several brightly coloured tents are pitched. A jacket hanging from a tree branch blows in the brisk autumnal breeze alongside a belt decorated with union flags. It is only October but the wind makes the temperature feel several degrees chillier.

We’ve heard much about the end of the west. At the proposed summit between Trump, Putin and Xi, those fears could crystallise

In the final two years of a US presidency, when Congress has been lost, approval ratings have sunk like a stone and their party has started to think about who’s coming next, the person occupying the Oval Office can feel their power draining away. Domestic legislation, particularly in an era where bipartisan cooperation is almost nonexistent, grinds to a halt. But as the days tick by until the end, and as presidents begin to think about their legacy, there is one part of the job where they still have power: the rest of the world.

In the final weeks of his presidency in 1992 George HW Bush sent 28,000 American troops to Somalia to help end a famine. For Bill Clinton, it was a quixotic attempt to bring peace to the Middle East by ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Barack Obama restored diplomatic ties with Cuba, making a historic visit to Havana, as well as a final, successful push on the Iran nuclear deal.

Sandra Hüller excels as Thomas Mann’s daughter in a fine historical drama, and a BBC documentary about the Welsh mining tragedy will enrage. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

Humble breakfast staple at heart of trend stirred up by health concerns and hearty spoonfuls of nostalgia

The clocks may be going back in the UK this weekend, but the biggest sign winter is coming is a steaming bowl of porridge on a breakfast table.

A staple for centuries, porridge is traditionally made with oats, water and a pinch of salt or sugar. However, the humble dish is now experiencing its own renaissance, with the latest iterations transforming it from drab to decadent. The trend is being driven by a growing fibre-centric movement as well as by nostalgia.

Lunch with my agent is going nowhere, so I decide to share my latest motoring anecdote

I’m having lunch with my agent – an infrequent occurrence, because neither of us ever has any good news for the other. This lunch is no different.

“Sorry to make you come all this way,” she says, “but I had to be near the office today.” She hints at some complex contractual negotiations involving an author for whom, I suspect, she always has good news.

Anination studio Laika takes flight with a grownup stop-motion tale, while the Grammy-, Oscar- and everything-winner returns with a Pharell-produced 11th album

Wildwood
Out now
If Pixar was a chocolate bar, it would be a Mars, while Laika – whose new film Wildwood incorporates themes of war and child abduction – would be something like Green & Blacks. Darker and with more esoteric flavours, this stop-motion animation is not so much for the nursery school crowd, but for discerning pre-teens and adults alike.

Ghosts: The Possession of Button House
Out now
The beloved BBC TV comedy gets a big-screen outing, with Simon Farnaby’s trouserless Tory MP ghost, Jim Howick’s dead scoutmaster, shot by a member of his own troop, Ben Willbond’s closeted second world war officer and the other regular cast members all returning.

Fatherland
Out now
Joint winner of the best director prize at Cannes, Paweł Pawlikowski’s latest is set during the cold war, and sees an actor, writer and rally driver, Erika (Sandra Hüller), set off on a road trip across Germany with her dear old dad, the Nobel prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler).

Ali G: Who Iz I?
Out now
Twenty four years after Ali G Indahouse opened at No 1 at the UK box office, Sasha Baron Cohen revives his alter-ego for a followup, making his directorial debut in the process. Morgana Robinson also stars. Catherine Bray

Alexandrea, 32, a lawyer, meets Pardis, 32, a doctor

The Derry Girls actor has always loved food, so who better to take over as the new presenter of the Guardian’s Comfort Eating podcast?

Siobhán McSweeney is teaching me her preferred way to enjoy a packet of cheese and onion crisps. She has arranged two matching slabs of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate, two piles of Tayto crisps and two cans of Guinness on the table in front of us – and is issuing strict instructions. “Don’t swallow!” she booms theatrically, and I freeze, my mouth full of Taytos. The trick, McSweeney explains, is to get the crisps, chocolate and Guinness into your mouth at the same time, and then swill it all around a bit to make a kind of boozy, oniony soup. “See?” McSweeney is watching me carefully to check I am putting all the ingredients into my mouth in the correct order. “It’s delicious! Just delicious!”

McSweeney burst into the public consciousness back in 2018 with Derry Girls, a comedy series about a group of Catholic schoolgirls, set against the background of the Troubles in 1990s Northern Ireland. McSweeney won a Bafta playing the girls’ headmistress, Sister Michael – a potty-mouthed, judo-loving nun – and can count Martin Scorsese as a fan. Asked for a TV recommendation during a panel discussion in 2022, the director name-checked Derry Girls and then lifted his fist in the air in a kind of salute, exclaiming rapturously, “Those nuns!”

Former USA team doctor Larry Nassar’s 2018 conviction sparked a global reckoning in gymnastics, yet gymnasts say they are still being let down

It has been 10 years since the Indianapolis Star published allegations of sexual abuse by Larry Nassar, the former team doctor for USA Gymnastics, setting off a chain of events that would lead to a reckoning for the sport. Hundreds of women came forward with their own allegations against Nassar, who also worked at Michigan State University, leading to his conviction and jailing.

The exposure of his crimes sparked a wider investigation into how gymnastics had allowed predators to abuse young athletes around the world. While Nassar was the worst recorded case, it emerged many other countries had questions to answer about the failure to protect victims from not only sexual but physical and emotional abuse. But a decade later, on a large houseboat moored in Rotterdam three tram stops away from the Ahoy Arena, where the World Gymnastics Championships are taking place this week, survivors and advocates raised fears about the slow pace of change.

The prime minister has defined and dominated his country’s politics for three decades and is putting his rivals on the defensive before Tuesday’s general election

They chant his name, they cheer and clap – and yet he is not the most dominant person in the room. Looming over the crowd that has gathered to hear Gadi Eisenkot, the former general who is the lead opposition challenger in Tuesday’s Israeli election, is a man who is not there. It is the man Eisenkot seeks to replace as prime minister, the man who first served in that role three decades ago and who has held it, on and off, for 19 of the past 30 years. It is Benjamin Netanyahu.

Naturally, the warm-up speakers at this evening rally in the modest city of Modi’in, halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, stress the virtues of Eisenkot, a son of working-class Moroccan Jews who rose through the ranks to become chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and entered politics only four years ago. But every sentence might as well end with two words that go unspoken: unlike Bibi.

В рамках одного из ныне завершённых циклов ("Разбирая бэклог") я дважды делал остановку на некоторых (4) игровых сериях (раз, два, три) и их особенностях. По прошествию минувших с тех пор месяцев пришло осознание, что не всё о чём можно было бы рассказать было освещено, как и в / за рамками коллектива широко известного форума нашлось n-ное количество желающих вновь поучаствовать в коллективной сборке, на этот раз новоявленного цикла. В новой рубрике нашлось место для всего понемногу, от классических, хардкорных CRPG и суровых пошаговых стратегий до экзотики, в виде эксклюзивных японских FMV-игр для Panasonic 3DO и Sega Saturn, но всему своё время.

Сегодня вашему вниманию вниманию предлагается первая серия, представители которой некогда были одной из основных ассоциаций с понятием "тёмное фэнтези".

Как четыре бытовых кейса превратились в инвестиционный офис из агентов — и почему человек из контура так и не выпал.

Когда говорят о SDD, AI PDLC или HG PDLC, обычные люди считают эти аббревиатуры очень далёкими от реальной жизни и принадлежащими жёсткой корпоративной ИТ‑сфере. Расскажу на примере ряда своих опытов (от простого к сложному), как эти абстрактные понятия реализуются для личных идей и проектов.

The Senate candidate denounced opponent Ken Paxton, calling out corruption allegations and support from Musk

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Texas, has taken aim at Elon Musk, warning that the tech mogul is trying to buy political influence and declaring: “Texas is not for sale.”

Talarico held a campaign rally on Friday at the University of Texas at Austin, packing an auditorium at his alma mater with hundreds of students and other supporters, who cheered, whooped and waved campaign signs.