Take five: A news summary for anxious times

Lost your appetite for rolling news? These are the stories you need to know about this week…

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Hello! It’s Friday (again, somehow?!), which means it’s time for Take Five. You probably know the score by now – this weekly summary aims to help you stay up to date with the news stories that matter to women and marginalised communities, without the anxiety of the headlines making your head explode.

Each weekly missive will round up five news stories you need to know about, alongside five good news tales to lighten the load, and a further five longer reads, columns or interviews I’ve found engaging or enlightening over the last week.

Let’s dive in…

The headlines

1. Kwarteng digs in as rumours of budget U-turn abound

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday insisted he was “not going anywhere”, as speculation over another number 10 budget U-turn mounted.

Kwarteng sidestepped questions about whether he and Liz Truss were planning to scrap significant sections of his so-called ‘mini-budget’, telling reporters in Washington “let’s see”.