1. My father, the German refugee who fought the Nazis as a ‘secret listener’Fritz Lustig in the British army in 1940. Photograph: Robin Lustig
double quotation markWhere do you draw the line between honouring your family’s cultural and religious traditions and adopting the traditions of your new home country? Are my British-born Greek Cypriot friends somehow less British because their children learned Greek?
As the far right fulminates about who “belongs” in Britain, the journalist and broadcaster Robin Lustig wrote this powerful piece remembering Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an “enemy alien”, he played a vital role in a top-secret military intelligence unit.Read more2. ‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintingsA reproduction of the great deer of Altamira cave. Photograph: Jesus de Fuensanta/Getty Images/iStockphotoFor tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. Stephen Phelan took an up-close look with one of the world’s leading experts.Read more3. ‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe? Illustration: Igor Bastidas
