Donald Trump indicted for the THIRD time: Ex-President hit with FOUR charges - including conspiracy to defraud the government and obstruct the electoral count - for trying to overturn the 2020 election https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12312169/Donald-Trump-says-CHARGED-January-6-case-President-braces-indictment-leaving-office.html >Former President Donald Trump was hit with federal criminal charges over his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, with a grand jury indictment accusing him of spreading 'lies' and 'sham' investigations while stoking an 'angry' mob on January 6. >Trump is facing four counts including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and obstruct the electoral count for trying to overturn the 2020 election. The 45-page indictment says he was 'determined to remain in power' despite 'having lost.' >Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a televised public statement following the release of the indictment that the attack on the Capitol was 'fueled by lies' made by Trump 'targeted at obstructing the bedrock function of the U.S. government - the nation's process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election.' He pledged that his office will conduct a 'speedy' trial. EXCLUSIVE: Just Stop Oil are caught boasting their protest tactics have shaped Labour policy in secret recording at a meeting https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12362407/Just-Stop-Oil-caught-boasting-protest-tactics-shaped-Labour-policy-secret-recording-meeting.html >Just Stop Oil activists are boasting their tactics have shaped Labour Party policy, it emerged last night. >They were secretly taped at a meeting claiming a stunt outside Parliament had influenced the Opposition's stance. >Larch Maxey said Labour 'suddenly shifted' to vetoing new North Sea oil and gas projects after JSO blocked London roads for weeks. El Salvador rings off entire region to hem in gangs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-66379555 >Soldiers and police in El Salvador have surrounded the entire central Cabanas department as part of President Nayib Bukele's ongoing war against gangs. >"Since this morning, 7,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers have established a security fence," Mr Bukele posted. >The aim is to stop gang members leaving and to break their supply chains. Galatea by Madeline Miller audiobook review – literature’s first incel >his short story from The Song of Achilles author Madeline Miller is a powerful reimagining of Ovid’s Pygmalion, in which a sculptor falls in love with a woman he has carved out of ivory and who is, as Miller tells it, literature’s first “incel”. First published in 2013, Miller’s story opens with Galatea – the name means “she who is milk-white” – under the care of a medic who frets about her pale complexion. “I’m always this colour,” explains Galatea, “because I used to be made of stone.” >Gradually, we learn Galatea’s story: how, 10 years earlier, her husband (who remains deliberately nameless) had prayed to the goddess night after night to bring his sculpture of a perfect, naked woman to life. On touching her arm one day, he realised she was warm and that his prayers had been answered. Only soon he became frustrated as he realised his creation had a mind and a will of her own – “I don’t think he expected me to speak,” Galatea reflects – and resolved to keep her locked away under medical supervision. After Galatea becomes pregnant with their child, Paphos, her husband notices stretch marks on her belly and is enraged. “If you were stone, I would chisel them off,” he says. >The Luther actor Ruth Wilson is the narrator, elevating Miller’s luminous prose and conveying Galatea’s disgust at her husband’s physical demands and her realisation that, to be free, she must draw on her own considerable strength. When she finally gets her revenge on her captor, it is fierce and thrilling.