Erica Hart uses a drone with a thermal imaging camera to find lost dogs, with fabulous results. In the past six years she has helped reunite 200 families with roaming pooches, and says that every time she finds one, it feels “like winning the lottery”.

Driverless “roboats” are set to make Amsterdam’s canals a lot smarter, says Jesse Orrall in CNET. The driverless robot boats, built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can shuttle people around, deliver goods and gather waste. Two prototypes are floating around the Singel, Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht waterways this month.

I’m beginning to think I was wrong to back Brexit, says Fraser Nelson in The Daily Telegraph. I voted leave in the hope that we could “swap a parochial European policy for a world of ‘Global Britain’” – we could cut the Brussels red tape, “strike bold trade deals” and establish a fruitful relationship with Europe. So “where are these sunlit uplands”? Our service exports to the EU are “falling twice as fast as those to the rest of the world”. Our relationship with the bloc has been hammered by “the vaccine wars and Northern Ireland rows”. And the new trade deals enthusiastically promoted by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss are just “rolled-over EU agreements”. The proposed Australia deal is being phased in over 15 years, “as if free trade is a huge threat from which Britain needs to be protected”.

For the first time in 69 years, the Queen did not speak at the Church of England’s annual General Synod, says Matthew Parris in The Times. There was something melancholy about her absence, and about the Archbishop of York’s concession that the Church is dying. His speech, like a foghorn in an advancing fog, only reinforced the shudder. “Let our death be a grand operatic death,” he said. “Let it be something fantastic. Let’s not crawl into a corner.”