Messages from the past: Salisbury Cathedral launches graffiti tours

You don’t notice them at first. The eyes tend to be drawn to the grander wonders – the altars, the stained glass, the pillars and flowing arches. But once the marks carved into the stonework of Salisbury Cathedral by centuries of pilgrims, churchgoers and mischief-makers are pointed out, they begin to pop out all over the place.A “graffiti tour” of the great Wiltshire church is being launched in May with guides pointing out what feel like whispered messages from the past.There are thousands of marks, from initials of people long-forgotten to images of animals and flowers and “protection marks” thought to keep evil at bay

Stephen Colbert: ‘People from overseas are frightened to come here’

Late-night hosts spoke about the most recent developments in the Trump administration including his ongoing deportation attempts.On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert said that visits to the US had gone down 11% in recent months and that Las Vegas had reportedly seen an $18m drop as a result.“People from overseas are frightened to come here,” he said before then referencing a Guardian report that shows that there has been the biggest drop in Australian tourists since Covid.He joked: “Do you know how bad things have to be to scare off Australians?”Meanwhile, Trump has been “ignoring court orders left and right” including refusing to stop planes filled with people being deported to El Salvador and since “stonewalling the judge” who ordered them to stop.He is now claiming there is probable cause to hold the administration in criminal contempt

Fyre festival 2 ‘postponed’ just weeks before it was scheduled to start

Fyre festival 2 has been “postponed”, according to messages sent to ticket holders, just weeks before it was scheduled to start.However, festival organizers told the Guardian that the festival is “still on” and they are currently “vetting new locations and will announce our host destination soon”.The event, advertised as a luxury music festival, was supposed to take place in Mexico from 30 May to 2 June. It was intended as an improved follow-up to the failed first Fyre festival in 2017, which experienced problems with security, food, accommodation, medical services and artist relations, resulting in the festival being indefinitely postponed and eventually cancelled.“The event has been postponed and a new date will be announced

Stephen Colbert: ‘We’re not on our way to a dictatorship, we’re on the ship’

Late-night hosts looked at Donald Trump’s recent dictatorial behaviour, including his attempt to bully Harvard University into following his demands.On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about the alleged “administrative error” that saw Kilmar Ábrego García snatched off the streets by Ice and sent to a prison in El Salvador despite no proof of criminal activity.The supreme court ordered Trump to facilitate his return but the administration has defied the ruling. “These are court orders not court suggestions!” Colbert said.He said that they “made that mistake on purpose” and Trump has since been “publicly mulling the idea of sending American citizens to rot” in the same prison

Celebrities criticize all-female rocket launch: ‘This is beyond parody’

The all-female Blue Origin rocket launch may have received plenty of glowing media coverage – but not everyone is impressed.The stunt has drawn criticism from a number of female celebrities who were not keen on the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin NS-31 mission, which included Katy Perry, Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sanchez, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn and, in a twist straight out of Apple TV’s The Morning Show, CBS Mornings host Gayle King.Model and actor Emily Ratajkowski said she was “disgusted” by the 11-minute space flight, which featured Perry serenading her fellow passengers with a cover of What a Wonderful World and advertising her upcoming tour setlist in brief zero gravity. “That’s end time shit,” Ratajkowski said. “Like, this is beyond parody

Jon Stewart on Trump: ‘I did not think that he would get this authoritarian this fast’

Late-night hosts assess Donald Trump’s level of authoritarianism as his administration refuses to follow a supreme court order to return a wrongfully deported man from a prison in El Salvador.Jon Stewart returned to his Monday night perch at The Daily Show to skewer the Trump administration for their deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man and legal US resident the White House admits was wrongfully sent to El Salvador due to “administrative error”.Speaking at the White House with the Salvadorian president, Nayib Bukele, Trump refused to return Garcia despite a supreme court order to do so. Bukele said: “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”“The thing is, they’re fucking enjoying this,” Stewart said