To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, for Keir Starmer to lose one minister over ethical concerns could be seen as a misfortune but to lose two seems like carelessness.

Tulip Siddiq's resignation over her family links to an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh follows Louise Haigh's departure last year as transport secretary, after it emerged she had been convicted of fraud.

What did the commentators say?
"There are now some inside Downing Street," said The Guardian's Pippa Crerar, "who wish they had thought a little bit more about how it looked before they appointed [Siddiq] as the government's anti-corruption minister". "It was an own goal," one Labour MP told Crerar. It's hard to avoid the "awkward" nature of the headlines, said the BBC's Chris Mason. "The minister responsible for the government's anti-corruption drive was named in a corruption investigation."

After last Summer's furore over Starmer's acceptance of gifts and freebies, "it is beginning to look as if this government does not fully understand how ministers' actions look to its external critics", said the Institute For Government's Tim Durrant.

The PM has created a rod for his own back as "having been so quick to loudly criticise the last government for its perceived failings on ethics and integrity", it is not clear he and his team "truly understand the importance of meeting the standards that they promised to uphold once in office".

This government "arrived in power through a 'Ming vase' strategy of treading carefully and allowing the Conservatives to disgrace themselves", said The New Statesman's Will Dunn, but "it now appears that Keir Starmer has presided over a failure of due diligence".

What next?
In his response to her resignation, Starmer told Siddiq that the "door remains open" for a return to government in the future. From the prime minister's perspective, "the aspirin of resignation eases the Tulip Siddiq headache he has had to endure", said the BBC's Mason. But the worry, said Dunn, is that "Labour is starting to look almost as dodgy, to the average voter, as the chumocracy it replaced".

Environmentalists have condemned the unauthorised release of four hand-reared lynxes into the Scottish countryside, a move they claim is "counterproductive" to the nascent UK rewilding movement. Police Scotland received reports of two wild cats in a forest in the Cairngorms National Park last week. Both were soon captured, with another pair caught on Friday.

While it's still unknown who is behind the lynx release, wildlife experts cited by the Los Angeles Times speculated that it was "either someone who took matters into their own hands because they were frustrated by the slow process of securing government approval for the project, or an opponent who wants to create problems that will block the reintroduction effort".

What is rewilding?
Rewilding "involves (but is not confined to) the reintroduction of so-called 'keystone' species on land that is not productive for farming or forestry", said The Telegraph. Keystone species are animals "that have a disproportionately significant effect on their environment in relation to their numbers".

The rewilding movement has grown in popularity in the UK in recent years, against the backdrop of a 19% decline in Britain's wildlife species since 1970. One in six species is now at risk of disappearing altogether, according to the latest State of Nature report.

Does it work?
Longhorn cattle have been re-introduced to an estate in West Sussex, while European bison can now be found in Kent. White-tailed eagles and beavers have also returned after centuries. Conservationists argue rewilding boosts wildlife diversity and, in the case of predators like the lynx, could provide a free method of culling deer.

Why is it so controversial?
The pace of rewilding efforts has proved too slow for some of those "who believe they can turn back the clock and transform the countryside" into a "less-manufactured and more natural society", said The Telegraph.

This can result in a "do it yourself" approach, with devastating consequences, as was the case when beavers were released illegally into farming country in Perthshire and Angus, "leading to fields being flooded, crops being damaged and eventually licences being issued to allow the animals to be killed as pests".

Roughly an hour into "The Girl with the Needle", there's a moment so shocking it "elicited gasps of outrage" across the cinema, said Kevin Maher in The Times. All at once, Magnus von Horn's "gripping story of female struggle" in post-WWI Copenhagen transforms into "one of the most disturbing gothic horrors of recent years", a disconcerting study of "living terror and the darkest amorality".

Vic Carmen Sonne gives a "phenomenal, feral" performance as Karoline, a seamstress who finds herself pregnant, unemployed and without a home, said Wendy Ide in The Observer. A "chance encounter" with Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), who runs a sweetshop and backstreet adoption agency, offers a glimmer of hope. But hope, like everything in this "horribly compelling" film, is "threadbare, undernourished and rotten to the core".

Von Horn's "dark and scorching" film "draws a grim true story from the Danish capital's past and spins it halfway to a Grimm one", said Robbie Collin in The Telegraph. The Swedish director records Karoline's "spiralling hopelessness" with "steely exactitude" and Dyrholm is "terrific" in the "tricky" role of Dagmar.

Cinematographer Michal Dymek and production designer Jagna Dobesz have conjured up an unsettling gothic world of "winding cobblestone streets" and "Escher-like staircases" shot at "skewed, anxiety-inducing angles", said Catherine Wheatley in Sight and Sound. As the film draws to a close, "what lingers in the memory is the stench of fear and the shuddering horror of this rotten world, which might not, after all, be so far from our own".

Labour's holier-than-thou posturing is well and truly finished
William Atkinson in The Telegraph
Tulip Siddiq has "left the Government", the "Pope remains Catholic", and "bears are using woods as their personal lavatories", writes William Atkinson. From "the bond markets to rape gang survivors", no one has a "good word" for Keir Starmer, and "any hope" he had of "painting his premiership as a departure" from the "perma-scandal" of the Tory years is "now shot". Siddiq's departure "gives to voters the impression that Labour are just the same".

The curse of the Oxbridge reject
Bethany Elliott in The New Statesman
The "Society of Oxbridge Rejects" accepted many "unwilling new members" yesterday when the Oxford offers went out, writes Bethany Elliott. "Welcome, newcomers", the "tissues and wine" are "at the door". This country is "so fixated on two seats of learning" that we "follow the elections of their chancellors like the football league", but it's "time to remove the stigma of not quite making the team". After all, rejection "teaches resilience better than any university".

Something big is happening in the world of contraception. It's going backwards
Barbara Speed in The Guardian
In recent years, "something seems to have shifted" with contraception, writes Barbara Speed, but rather than a "new, brilliant option", the "reality seems to be broadly the opposite". A "rising interest in fertility- and period-tracking apps" and "turn against hormonal methods" seems to be part of a "rise in alternative healthcare". And with it comes a "slight uptick in abortion rates", while "others may be having children at a time not of their choosing, at a cost to their career or family life".