Food writer and critic William Sitwell stepped down yesterday as editor of Waitrose’s in-house food magazine after his astonishingly unpleasant response to a freelance journalist who had pitched a series on vegan recipes was published online, sparking widespread outrage. As vegans themselves, Kate Stewart and Matthew Cole have become used to this hostility, particularly on the part of the mainstream media. Especially galling, they write, is that they are often accused of lacking a sense of humour when objecting to this vitriol. They put it down to moral guilt on the part of many meat eaters.

Ten billion years ago, a galaxy violently crashed into our own – populating the Milky Way with stars, astronomers have discovered. The team used data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite to spot debris from the collision in the shape of some oddly moving stars scattered across the sky. Victoria Scowcroft explains why the finding is so remarkable.

Cape Town’s recent drought brought into sharp relief how people behave and the choices they make when resources become scarce. A catastrophe was averted in large part by people’s willingness to use dramatically less water than normal. According to new research by Astrid Kause and colleagues, it is not altogether surprising that people share important resources when it really matters.

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