On a day when the question “what the hell is going on in the UK?” was being pounded into search engine boxes and politicians were queuing up to rant into any available microphone, Prime Minister Theresa May actually seemed relatively composed. She started the day outside 10 Downing Street vowing to defeat her challengers, and she ended it stepping back inside, having done just that. But her victory does nothing whatsoever to solve her biggest problem, says Robin Pettitt.

For Stefan Stern, May’s time in office is a lesson in bad leadership. The ongoing uncertainty over Brexit is being reflected in the financial markets. And May still also does not have the parliamentary support to pass her almost universally detested Brexit deal. Tom Quinn on what happens now.

In millions of years, with Brexit long forgotten, future civilisations may stumble upon an evolutionary puzzle buried deep in the rocks. Why, they’ll ask, were there once so many chickens? Eventually they’ll realise such a meaty yet helpless creature could only have existed and spread throughout the world thanks to an intelligent species that must have domesticated them. Layers of fossilised chicken bones will mark the period when humans dominated the planet, say Carys Bennett and colleagues.

Many parents have mixed feelings about their children’s imaginary friends. For a long time, psychologists believed that they could be a sign of emotional instability. But as Paige Davies explains, research in recent years has shown that children who have invisible playmates tend to be more creative and socially aware than those who don’t.

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