John Oliver recapJohn OliverThe Last Week Tonight host digs into the overstated promises of corporate carbon neutrality through ‘carbon offset’ schemes John Oliver’s main segment on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight concerned Earth, AKA the “Oscar Isaac of planets, in that it seems to be getting alarmingly hotter every year”, and specifically corporate promises to protect it from climate change via carbon neutrality. Such proposals, or claims to be “net zero”, suppose that businesses operate in a way that doesn’t increase the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Ask Annalisa BarbieriFamilyShe seems to think it is her role to tell people what is right. How can I stop her upsetting her grandchildren and others? Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader My mother, 80, is a very intelligent, educated, articulate woman, who goes out a lot and has many interests. Over the past five years or so, my sister and I have come to realise that we don’t like parts of her very much.

Chicago Cubs This article is more than 5 years oldSee you next year: why homophobia ended this Cubs fan's seasonThis article is more than 5 years oldParker MolloyMy Cubs are that much deeper after trading for Daniel Murphy, but the second baseman’s homophobia is a dealbreaker for me The last time I was at Wrigley Field, so was Daniel Murphy. It was Chicago Cubs against the Washington Nationals, and it was a remarkable game.

World newsSpotless star's dark secret shakes Israel'Isn't it time for the citizens of Israel to relate to Aids asthey do to cancer or dysentery?'They say the bereaved pass through several stages of grief, but in Israel the legions of fans of the singer Ofra Haza have been stuck on anger ever since a newspaper dared to print what had been circulating as rumour for days. The entertainer with a spotless private life, whose rise to stardom from the slums of Tel Aviv chimed so well with Israel's self-image as a land of opportunity, had died of complications from Aids.

The Handmaid's Tale: episode by episodeThe Handmaid's TaleAfter stomach-lurching flashbacks, we plunge into the colonies to witness the fate of transgressives Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series two, on Channel 4 in the UK. Please do not add comments containing spoilers from later episodes. Another bleak week in Gilead as June swaps one form of captivity for another and Emily (Ofglen) is reintroduced, shown toiling in the colonies.