At tomorrow’s Academy Awards, career-making gongs will be handed out to actors, directors, producers, costume designers and even make up artists. But there’s another award that should be on the list and isn’t – an Oscar for best audio description. This is when a narrator provides a running commentary of a film for blind or visually impaired cinema goers. It can utterly transform the experience for them and has grown into an art form in its own right, yet the service goes entirely unrecognised at the industry’s most important ceremony.

You can also read about why best picture nominees Roma, The Favourite, Black Panther and The Green Book each bring something important to the mix.

One of our most popular articles this week seeks to bust some of the most widely believed myths about how to take care of your skin. It includes some surprising revelations about chocolate, stress and whether you really do need to drink two litres of water a day.

A renegade band of British parliamentarians defected from the two biggest parties this week to form their own centrist group in the House of Commons, citing their anger about the direction being taken by both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. Their departure is a bold statement against tribalism, but there are major challenges ahead if they are to become a real political force. It was all quite a shock – though nowhere near as confusing as the bizarre situation that unfolded in Italy this week, where deputy prime minister and scandal addict Matteo Salvini narrowly avoided facing trial for kidnap, just because a bunch of people voted to save him in an online poll.

Our colleagues in Australia have been running a great series on the forgotten women of history. This week’s instalment focused on 17th-century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, whose work enabled us to make a conclusive link between caterpillars and butterflies.

Have a great weekend.

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