The ObserverHenry V This article is more than 1 year oldBy all means cry God for Harry, England and St George. Just don’t puff out your chest too farThis article is more than 1 year oldTim AdamsA new production of Henry V has been called a ‘woke King Harry’ – but Englishness has always been complexAt the Vote Leave HQ on the night of the Brexit vote, Daniel Hannan leapt on to a table at 4.

Self and wellbeingHealth, mind and body booksTrust your gut, boost your memory, de-bias your decision making… can we train our brains to perform better? The world out there can often seem as though it is hurtling to hell in a handcart: people are refusing safe vaccines for a dangerous disease, extreme weather events caused by global heating are on TV nightly, billionaires are shooting themselves into the stratosphere in penis-shaped spacecraft while record numbers of the precariously employed rely on food banks.

‘For me it’s about removing yourself from everything,’ says West Australian surfer Kerby Brown. Photograph: Andrew SemarkDespite the acute danger posed by the monstrous waves he seeks out, Kerby Brown values the ocean’s therapeutic nature by Kieran PenderBefore his fatal attempt to summit Mount Everest almost a century ago, British mountaineer George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb the world’s tallest peak. “Because it’s there,” he famously replied.

Lewis Van Poetsch fights John Harding at York Hall in London in 2018. Photograph: Tgsphoto/REX/ShutterstockLewis Van Poetsch fights John Harding at York Hall in London in 2018. Photograph: Tgsphoto/REX/ShutterstockGuardian Sport NetworkBoxingLewis van Poetsch’s boxing record may not look impressive but it shows just how brave, resilient and in love with the sport he is By Jonathan Drennan for the Guardian Sport Network Lewis van Poetsch knows his boxing record is an easy conversation starter.

LGBTQ+ rightsA Sydney counselling service is filling in what’s often missing in the married man coming out narrative – the woman’s voice Megan Holgate couldn’t quite believe where she was. It was the height of the Aids crisis and she was in the waiting room of an inner-city STI clinic, frequented by those most at risk of HIV: gay men, injecting drug users, sex workers. Not, as she had been, a monogamous married businesswoman.

Women This article is more than 9 years oldBarbie can be a computer engineer ... but only with help of a manThis article is more than 9 years old‘I’ll need Steven and Brian’s help to turn this into a real game!’ laughs computer programmer Barbie in new book Breaking away from her pink heels, pink ball gown and oversized pink hairbrush, Barbie – the fashion doll manufactured by Mattel – now has a range of gender-stereotype-breaking books.

Turkey Istanbul protesters 'gassed out of Taksim Square' – video Amateur video purports to show protesters in Taksim Square, Istanbul, on Tuesday trying to escape teargas used by police to clear the demonstration. People are seen collapsing, coughing and with tears running down their faces in the chaos. Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, vowed to clear Taksim Square after almost two weeks of protest• Follow our live blog on the protests in Turkey Source: Huseyin Caglayan

World cinemaReviewA superb Norwegian film about a junkie spending a day outside the rehab centre, ballasted by an excellent central performanceAn intelligent and resonant work from Norwegian director Joachim Trier, a movie that yields up its meanings and implications slowly. It is loosely based on Pierre Drieu La Rochelle's 1931 novel Le Feu Follet, filmed before by Louis Malle. This is one day in the life of Anders, played by Anders Danielsen Lie; he is a thirtysomething heroin addict in a rehab centre outside Oslo.

Guardian Tokyo weekCitiesThe tale of the ‘first samurai’ whose severed head still terrorises Tokyoites today is the story of the city itself A Tokyo bank once opened an account in the name of a man who had been dead for 1,000 years. The bank was a branch of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (now part of MUFG, the largest bank in Japan), which looked out over a neighbouring lot that contained the grave where the man was buried.

ComedyInterviewAdrienne Truscott: nudity is a very inexpensive and effective costumeAlexandra SpringThe performance artist-turned-standup on appearing naked from the waist down, male audiences and the chances of walking out of her show ‘unraped’ Asking For It five-star review: sophisticated confrontationalism Adrienne Truscott: the day I lost my job for Linda McCartney If there is anyone who should be able to find a decent bikini wax anywhere in the world, it’s Adrienne Truscott.