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, which means it’s time for Take Five. You probably know the score by now – 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 enlightening or thought-provoking over the last week.

The aim is to help you stay up to date with the news stories that matter to women and marginalised communities, without immersing yourself in anxiety of the headlines – and if we find some engaging conversation out of the issues raised, even better!

No time to waste. Let’s get cracking

The headlines

1. Couzens’ Met colleagues guilty of sending ‘grossly offensive’ WhatsApps