Narcissists and psychopaths are interesting folk. Of course, that doesn’t mean we’d like to share a summer holiday with one, but their particular psychological traits do make them compelling subjects of both science and fiction. And those same traits also often make them highly motivated to seek out positions of power.

That power may be political, professional, or social, but it often means that whoever ends up in charge is greedy, ruthless and lacking in empathy. Not perhaps, the human qualities we value the most.

Yet it isn’t like this everywhere. Some hunter-gatherer societies actively prevent anyone with the biggest desire for influence and power from attaining any such position. And the same could happen everywhere, says Steve Taylor. It might take some work, he says, but the world would be a happier place.

How many hours have you worked so far this week? And are you staying beyond your finish time? Well if you are, you might want to stop, as it turns out long hours at the office can actually kill you. Not only does overworking make you more likely to have high blood pressure, heart disease, stress and anxiety, but it can also make you less productive. Here’s the case for a shorter working week that argues that we should do away with a culture of long unproductive hours bound to a desk.

There have been a whole lot of sausages in the BBC’s hit thriller, Killing Eve, about the hunt to track down a charismatic assassin. It’s a refreshing turn-about of the usual bill of fare on television – with women cast as assassin and hunter and men the ones who all too often come to a sticky end. The show’s writers are clearly having a lot of fun with subverting the more usual objectification of women’s bodies as meat. All in all, very tasty stuff.

The final two candidates in the Conservative leadership contest will be decided today. The things we’re wondering most at this stage? Was it a good idea to let Boris Johnson evade public scrutiny up until this point? And, even if he is out of the race, we still really want to know: was Rory Stewart a spy?

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