The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

THERE’S no such species as the cabbage white butterfly, though you wouldn’t know it from my garden where any brassicas left uncovered during the summer soon have their leaves skeletonised by caterpillars.
There are in fact two species, the large white and the small white, whose larvae cause such annoyance to veg growers.
By October these butterflies are disappearing from gardens, so there are no more eggs being laid on cabbages, purple sprouting broccoli, kale and the rest.

MAT COWARD presents a peculiar cabbage that will only do its bodybuilding once the summer dies down

A heatwave, a crimewave, and weird bollocks in Aberdeen, Indiana horror, and the end of the American Dream

A corrupted chemist, a Hampstead homosexual and finely observed class-conflict at The Bohemia

Beet likes warmth, who doesn’t, so attention to detail is required if you’re to succeed, writes MAT COWARD