says Andrew Ryvkin in Air Mail. They’re “militant Russian ultra-nationalists” who support the Ukraine war but think it’s being fought atrociously. Aleksandr Sladkov, a military-linked Russian reporter in Ukraine’s breakaway Donbas region, has labelled the war effort “shamefully indecisive”. A social media channel linked to Russian mercenaries has declared: “Either there will be a mass mobilisation, or we lose the war.” Combine that with the Kremlin’s “silent acceptance” of Sweden and Finland joining Nato, and you have a regime that, to ultra-nationalists, “is unfit for its own vision of Russia”.

lie down, says Bryony Gordon in The Daily Telegraph. According to Victoria Beckham, you’d be wrong: “thankfully for the world’s headline writers”, what women really want is a “nice, round, curvy bottom”. The 48-year-old’s new-fangled desire for a buxom backside is being applauded as a liberating, feminist statement. For years, her super-skinny frame was a “national obsession”: tabloids speculated about how many edamame beans she indulged in, and whether her waist was, as rumoured, only 23 inches. But now, apparently being thin is “old-fashioned”. And, helpfully, curvaceousness complements the designer’s new clothing line. (“The curvier you are, the better my VB dresses look,” she says.)