Monday
It is the last days of summer and before we return fully to the horrors of Donald Trump’s election run and the cost of living crisis, let’s enjoy some news from Australia, where problems come in more visceral form. Shortly after it emerged on Monday that a woman examined by doctors in Canberra had been hosting a live worm in her brain for six months, footage materialised from Queensland of a 16ft carpet snake – or, as the newspapers put it, a “massive python” – caught on camera by a family as it sauntered off the roof of a suburban house and into a neighbouring tree.
