Alleged drug kingpin Daniel Kinahan is back on home soil in Ireland, having being extradited from Dubai after “a global game of cat and mouse with European, US and Gulf authorities”, said The Guardian. A massive security operation was mounted on Sunday to take the 49-year-old straight from the airport to the Criminal Courts of Justice, where he was charged and then whisked away to the high-security Portlaoise prison.

Who is Daniel Kinahan?
The son of convicted drug trafficker Christy “the Dapper Don” Kinahan. Daniel allegedly took over from his father as leader of the Kinahan Cartel, a crime ring said to control about a third of Europe’s cocaine supply. He has been charged with directing the activities of a criminal organisation from 18 October 2015 to 6 April 2017. He was not required to enter a plea but his lawyers have previously denied similar allegations.

The married father of five is also the founder of the boxing management company MTK Global, whose clients included former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. In 2017, the company said it had cut ties with Kinahan; in 2022, it ceased operations.

Kinahan is said to have fled to Spain, and then Dubai, after an attempt on his life at the Regency Hotel in Dublin in 2016. “Six men, some disguised as police, and one wearing a dress and a wig, entered the hotel” and opened fire at a boxing weigh-in, said The Washington Post. Kinahan escaped, but his associate, David Byrne, was shot dead, sparking a feud between the Kinahans and the rival Hutch gang.

How did he end up back in Ireland?
In April 2022, following pressure from the Irish authorities, the Kinahan Organised Crime Group was sanctioned by the US. A £3.7 million reward was also offered for tips leading to Kinahan’s arrest. His presence in the UAE over the past decade had “become a source of international embarrassment” for the Gulf state, especially when a picture of his 2017 wedding at the luxury Burj Al Arab hotel was posted on Twitter by Fury.

Eventually, in 2024, Ireland managed to negotiate an extradition treaty with the UAE. Kinahan was then arrested in April this year, and detained in custody, pending his forced return to Ireland this weekend on an Irish government jet.

He currently has no criminal record or convictions and, if he chooses to fight his court case and wins, “he would be released immediately”, said The Irish Times. If convicted, he faces “somewhere between 20 and 30 years in prison”. 

Harry Potter star Jessie Cave (pictured above) is the latest actor to turn to OnlyFans to supplement her income. “I’ve earned more, easily, than my entire acting career within one year,” she told The Times. Cave, who played Hogwarts student Lavender Brown, said she joined the online platform, known for its adult content, in 2025, after receiving yet another audition rejection.

Posting non-explicit “hair content”, Cave said she made £15,000 on her first day and she predicts more artists will follow suit: “Everyone will be paying for everything.” This is a “dystopian world view, where every interaction is monetised and, eventually, frankly, pornified”, said Alice Jones, The Times’ deputy culture editor.

Regaining ‘control’
It is a story already increasingly common in the US among “Hollywood’s former middle class”, said Melissa Fleur Afshar on Newsweek. From Jaime Pressly to Shannon Elizabeth, some of the “most recognisable stars from the box-set and cable era”, who were losing out on work and slipping off the cultural radar, are “now migrating to OnlyFans instead”.

It may look as if the “sole promise” of the site is “money and continued attention” but, in an acting industry “reeling from high-profile lawsuits and allegations of exploitation”, OnlyFans actually offers these people “control”.

‘Butts for Tour Buses’
It is not just actors. News of Lily Allen’s OnlyFans side gig in 2024, which netted her £7 a month per subscriber, “added to the long-running conversation around abysmal streaming payouts” for musicians, said Vice. The singer eventually stopped selling videos and pictures of her feet, saying “it wasn’t that fun”.

The financial structure of music-streaming platforms and concert tours means artists are increasingly “having to juggle budgets that resemble household accounts: vans against fuel, hotels against sofa-surfing and merchandise against storage fees”, said Paul Oliver, a digital innovation lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, on The Conversation.

Kate Nash launched an OnlyFans campaign she called “Butts for Tour Buses” to fund the European leg of her 2024 tour after post-Brexit taxes left her in debt and struggling to pay everyone involved. Earlier this year, she told the House of Commons Culture Select Committee that the only reason it was possible to continue her tours “is because I sell pictures of my bum on the internet”.

A giraffe peers into the camera at Turkey’s Bursa Zoo, which has launched a new enrichment programme to encourage its animals’ instinctive behaviours, such as exploration and natural hunting.

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The Maldives has become synonymous with luxury travel. Its hard-to-reach location and proliferation of private-island resorts mean the price point is out of reach for most. But there are many other less expensive destinations that make for equally picturesque getaways.

Rangiroa, French Polynesia
Popular Bora Bora tends to “mirror the Maldives in price”, said Lauren Dana Ellman in Travel + Leisure. But Rangiroa is more of a hidden gem with “many of the same elements”, founder of Perfect Honeymoons Jim Augerinos told the publication. Travellers can expect to find the usual “overwater bungalows, electric-blue lagoons, white-sand beaches and that isolated island feeling – often at a noticeably lower price point”.

Zanzibar, Tanzania
If you’re after a destination with “escapist appeal” but don’t want to lose out on “cultural edge”, Zanzibar is the place for you, said Ellman in Travel + Leisure. Its rich “Swahili history” is a huge draw, as well as the Unesco-listed Stone Town and local spice farms. It also delivers “brilliant blue water” and “sugar-sand beaches” (pictured above). A holiday here comes at a “far lower price point” but still offers “polished luxury”.

Sumba, Indonesia
This almost “untouched” Indonesian island “an hour’s flight from Bali” has “only a tiny fraction of the tourists” on the bigger island, said Robert Jackman in The Telegraph. Complete with “gold sand” beaches, it is the perfect destination for those looking for their “own private paradise” away from any bustle. “Definitely worth the longer journey.”

The ICC is all the women of Afghanistan have left
Binaifer Nowrojee in the Financial Times
The Taliban has established “the most brutal, misogynistic regime in existence”, writes international human rights lawyer Binaifer Nowrojee. Women are “flogged in public”, “banned from moving freely” and “punished for speaking above a whisper”. Their “only avenue” for justice is the International Criminal Court. But now that’s under threat, with internal misconduct issues and White House vows to “dismantle” it. If the ICC crumbles, we’ll enter “a new era of impunity”. “We owe” the women of Afghanistan somewhere to turn.

What does it say about the UK’s pro-Europeans that they hide their message behind a bin?
Simon Nixon in The Guardian
Europhiles backing Count Binface to give Nigel Farage “a bloody nose” in the Clacton by-election “may be in for a disappointment”, writes Simon Nixon. In “quieter” parts of the constituency, I found “hostility” to Farage and “an overwhelming view that Brexit had failed”. But people were “uncomfortable” that “voting for Binface” might turn Clacton “into a national punchline”. Prominent bin-backing “pro-Europeans” have “ignored” the Rejoin EU candidate but he would send a serious signal “Westminster could not ignore”.

How the shallot got political
Simon Heptinstall on The Spectator
“An alium armada has breached our shores,” writes Simon Heptinstall. Shallots – “small pink immigrants” – have usurped “the “British-born onion”. You’d think “the cold realities of Brexit would have checked this foreign vegetative incursion” but no; “while British farmers” contend with “endless red tape to export a single sausage”, our government scraps border checks and waves foreign shallots “through customs with a polite nod”. The “pink tide” is here and “it’s the onions that are left to shed a tear”.