1. What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings‘Controlling a dog, like controlling a small child, requires a mixture of training, routine, incentives, rewards and physical constraints.’ Illustration: Anaïs Mims/Guardian Design
double quotation markWe are all familiar with the cliches of Britain as a ‘nation of animal lovers’, but we often overlook quite how weird and remarkable it is that we have, for the most part successfully, integrated a vast number of autonomous, non-human entities into a human system of rights and wrongs.
William Davies wrote about how a lovable yet unruly boxer, Dusty, forced him to wonder: if a dog has no morals, how do you teach it to be ‘good’?Read more2. ‘Geldof started flicking Vs at Farage’: the story of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front-row seatIt’s been a decade since the UK voted to leave the EU. Key players look back at the momentous months of the campaign. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/PA/Rex/Shutterstock/APGuardian journalists interviewed a range of MPs, officials and other key players to produce this multi-perspective account of the five months in 2016 that shaped the UK’s future, encompassing Boris Johnson siding with Vote Leave, Jo Cox’s murder and David Cameron’s resignation.Read more3. ‘Degrading’: why did a US fighter pilot avoid British trial after strangling a woman in England?Capt Jacob Wulfson’s case was tried at a court martial on a US airbase according to US military law. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Benjamin SmithJacob Wulfson’s fellow airmen decided his fate after a court martial on a US airbase. Harry Davies and Rob Evans wrote this moving dispatch about one of several cases uncovered by the Guardian in which UK police and prosecutors appear to be ceding responsibility to their American military counterparts.Read more4. Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasiesCory Doctorow at his home in Los Angeles. Photograph: Jessica Pons/The Guardian
