How will Jamaica recover from its most powerful hurricane on record? Natricia Duncan reports

When Hurricane Melissa reached Jamaica on Tuesday, it was the most powerful weather system to hit the island since records began.

Ava Brown, in St Catherine parish, says her neighbourhood has been turned upside down. “Most of my neighbours’ roofs are gone. Crops and animals have drowned. Roads are impassable. People have died. I heard an unconfirmed report that one of the hospitals is almost unusable. It’s a disaster.”

Why are the online far right so successful in shaping our political language? With Dr Robert Topinka

At a press conference in September, Reform UK announced a seismic policy proposal – the end of indefinite leave to remain for immigrants. This change, which would drastically transform the UK immigration system, was justified by a supposed need to tackle the “Boriswave”.

At first glance, the Boriswave portmanteau might be understood as merely a description of the post-Brexit pattern of heightened migration but, as the reactionary digital politics expert Dr Robert Topinka explains to Helen Pidd, the term was generated by the “extremely online far right” and originally used as a racial epithet. Topinka describes how it carries a right-leaning framing, whether its users are aware of it or not.