The world's climate has become more unpredictable, leading experts to coin the phrase "global weirding" – an alternative to "global warming" that better reflects the wider spectrum of extreme weather related to climate change.

Where did the term come from?
US political commentator Thomas Friedman popularised the term "global weirding" in a 2007 opinion piece in The New York Times. "The rise in average global temperature is going to lead to all sorts of crazy things," he said, "from hotter heat spells and droughts in some places, to colder cold spells and more violent storms, more intense flooding, forest fires and species loss in other places."

What does that look like?
Many places are experiencing "climate whiplash" – extreme reversals of weather conditions, according to a new report by WaterAid. "Places accustomed to heavy rainfall are now facing droughts, while historically arid regions grapple with unexpected floods." This whiplash can happen fast, too, with "droughts that dry up water sources followed closely by floods that overwhelm infrastructure". Los Angeles, for example, recently experienced "two very wet winters" that "produced lots of grass and shrubs", said Sky News. These were then "followed by a long, hot summer that dried out that vegetation, providing abundant, tinder-dry fuel" for what would become, at the turn of this year, the worst wildfires in its history.

Why is it so dangerous?
Global weirding and climate whiplash are producing more powerful extreme weather phenomena. "Wherever we look around the world, we see that these weather events are getting supersized by climate change, and they're putting us all at risk," climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe told Space.com.

And, in the longer term, global weirding "supercharges" the "water supply, sewage and flood-protection problems" faced by cities around the world "as their populations rapidly swell", said The Guardian. In low-income nations, these shifting climate extremes make "the establishment of much-needed infrastructure" much harder. Even wealthier nations can be caught off-guard because of their reliance on "ageing infrastructure" that's "designed for a climate that no longer exists".

The last English men's football manager to lift a trophy above his head at Wembley was Harry Redknapp, when he won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008. Until yesterday – when Eddie Howe's Newcastle beat Liverpool to take the Carabao Cup.

Howe "pulled off something truly stunning", and the reverberations of his astonishing tenure at St James' Park will "echo through history", said Luke Edwards in The Telegraph. But the Buckinghamshire-born manager's triumph has once again turned attention towards a baffling question: where have all English football's "home-grown" managers gone?

'The best, no matter where they're from'
Howe is one of only two English managers in Premier League football, alongside Graham Potter at West Ham. The Premier League "is not really an English league but a global league that happens to be in England", said Miguel Delaney in The Independent. The "ownership of the clubs is international" and those owners "want the best coaches, no matter where they're from".

English football's "coaching incentives and methods" are also behind those of their European counterparts, said Ben Littlemore on Transfermarkt. Coaching qualifications are far more expensive in the UK than they are on the continent, and only available through a "handful" of hugely oversubscribed courses, meaning that European countries have a much bigger pool of qualified coaches to draw from.

'Poster boy for success'
The "infatuation with foreign coaches" and a refusal to give a chance to "so many good ones of our own" is difficult to understand, said Harry Redknapp in The Sun. And now we're in a "catch-22 classic", said the Daily Mail: the perception that English managers "don't win major trophies" means they don't secure the best jobs and, "without the best jobs, it's impossible to win major trophies".

But perhaps the weekend's Newcastle victory is the moment the tide starts to turn. In a Premier League "flooded with more fashionable foreign coaches",  said Edwards in The Telegraph, home-grown Howe has now become the "poster boy for success".

Supermarket shelves are "bursting" with jars of kimchi, "colourful" kombuchas and kefirs, said The Telegraph. What these foods all have in common – apart from the same initial letter – is that they are fermented and contain "microbes which are thought to boost gut health". Given that a healthy gut microbiome has been linked to "everything from better digestion and brain health to reduced risk of cancer", it's little surprise these foods and drinks are having their "moment in the sun".

Kefir
Made with cultured kefir grains, this "yoghurt-like" milk drink has a "tangy taste" and a "creamy consistency", nutritionist Eli Brecher told London's The Standard. Although it contains dairy, kefir is often "well tolerated" by those who are lactose-intolerant.

Kimchi
The "spicy" cabbage (pictured above), a staple of Korean cuisine, is "loaded with lactic acid" to balance the gut microbiome, dietician Jennifer Pallian told delish. It's also "helpful for regulating triglycerides, good cholesterol" and blood-sugar levels.

Kombucha
Crafted from tea, sugar, healthy bacteria and yeast, this "deliciously effervescent" and "energising" drink has been around for over 2,000 years, said The Standard. The base kombucha culture is infused with different teas, herbs and spices to create an array of "funky flavours" before it's left to ferment for around two weeks.

Miso
This "salty, umami-rich paste", made with fermented soya beans and koji mould, is "easy" to mix into your diet and "a little goes a long way", said The Guardian. Use it in place of salt to add flavour to dishes, and blend (milder) white and (richer) red miso for a more "balanced flavour profile".

'Fair' sentencing will tarnish respect for law
Joanna Williams in The Times
A guide for judges on fair treatment of defendants aims to "increase understanding of the circumstances of people appearing in courts", writes Joanna Williams. What that means is "judges are being given mitigating context for migrants", so they can be "treated with greater leniency than more privileged offenders". It seems that "equality before the law" has been "abandoned", and it "increasingly appears" that the courtroom is "not sacrosanct but an arena for judicial activism".

Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it's worse than that. Time to stop the pretence
Nesrine Malik in The Guardian
"Prior to the election," writes Nesrine Malik, "sceptics" were told that Keir Starmer's "caution" would "turn to radicalism in office". Instead, we have a government "making savings by targeting the most vulnerable in society". If it is "doing work the Conservatives could only dream of", then "what is the point of the Labour party"? The cost of "maintaining the illusion" that "leaders will come good" is met by citizens who "cannot escape" the "consequences of political failure".

I hate Mother's Day – it's a load of empty, sanctimonious nonsense
Lucy Mangan in The i Paper
"I can't stand" Mother's Day, writes Lucy Mangan. The original Mothering Sunday was the fourth Sunday in Lent, when people returned to their "mother church", but then it became about "celebrating real mothers – the actual fleshly kind". Now, it's "a card, written under conditions of bribery and duress by your crotchfruit", and "a badly made breakfast in bed", when you could be having a lie-in if you'd "kept your coil in situ until the danger years had passed".