Profound lessons from dog training, the story of the Brexit campaign and France’s struggle with heat-trap homes | Brexit

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1. What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings ‘Controlling a dog, like controlling a small child, requires a mixture of training, routine, incentives, rewards and physical constraints.’ Illustration: Anaïs Mims/Guardian Design double quotation markWe are all familiar with the cliches of Britain as a ‘nation of animal lovers’, … Read more

People in Britain used to agree to disagree. Since Brexit, they no longer dare to talk about difficult things | Elif Shafak

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When I first moved to England, nearly two decades ago, I was invited to attend a talk in London on “the future of British identity”. It was a heated debate from the start, and it became all the more intense when the subject of putting colonial history in the school curriculum was raised. The two … Read more

Do you really need to speak German to take a cooling dip? This row in Halle raises all manner of red flags | Fatma Aydemir

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Humans are vulnerable in water. Beaches have red flags; swimming pools have flashy warning signs to remind us of our vulnerability when we just want to cool down in the midst of a searing heatwave. Pool rules are essential, especially when children are around, or tourists who don’t know about the local safety measures. With … Read more

Weather tracker: Heatwave on course to tip temperatures over 40C in Germany and Poland | Extreme heat

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Temperatures are forecast to rise dramatically in parts of central and northern Europe this weekend as the intense heatwave continues. In Germany and Poland, highs of up to or exceeding 40C (104F) are expected on both Saturday and Sunday, days after swathes of France experienced similar extreme temperatures. The Austrian Grand Prix, taking place this … Read more

Reform UK plan to target EU nationals based in Britain ‘absolutely outrageous’ | Immigration and asylum

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EU nationals based permanently in the UK have expressed alarm over a Reform UK plan to target their rights to accommodation and employment, saying the policy is a betrayal of promises made in the Brexit referendum 10 years ago. Under updated migration policies, Nigel Farage’s party would evict all overseas nationals from social housing and … Read more

Rome airports threaten to suspend new EU passport system to avoid summer ‘disaster’ | Airline industry

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Rome’s airports will have to suspend the EU’s new digital border system for non-EU citizens to avoid a “disaster” during the peak tourism summer months, according to the head of the airports company. Marco Troncone said that allowing passengers to skip the biometric entry-exit system (EES) was the only way of avoiding travel chaos over … Read more

Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed me that modern borders are absurd | Federico De Blasi

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We are used to mapping the world by continents, dividing the globe into rigid geopolitical blocks. But to understand the complex reality behind each border, we are better off using a different, edible kind of cartography. For most of human existence, the Mediterranean has existed as an intercultural entity in its own right, where peoples … Read more

The Guardian view on EU talks with the Taliban: selling out the rights of girls, women and other Afghans | Editorial

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Days after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, the EU’s top diplomat stressed the need to protect women and girls. “Cooperation with any future Afghan government will be conditioned on … respect for the fundamental rights of all Afghans,” Josep Borrell pledged. The regime’s attack on women’s rights began immediately, and has only … Read more