Sparring stags, June 2018Last summer, a team of scientists descended on Rum, in the Inner Hebrides, to tag red deer calves in order to track and gather data on them throughout their lives. The deer outnumber people on the island by about 30 to one, has the animals have been the subject of research since 1953, with individuals being monitoring since 1972. These three year old stags, captured by the photographer Murdo MacLeod, are boxing a dominance interaction where neither

Performers were often happy for Jane to take pictures while they were being interviewed as is the case here

which is where Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe captured them rehearsing at Manchester’s Opera House in the summer of 1976

After a fallow year in 2018

England would go on to win the series 2-1 and reclaim the Ashes for the first time in 18 years

while blurring out the rest

the male (right)

This is the fact of it but the one on the right appears stupefied that the hole in the wall is not functioning

grimy and glorious

AKA Phoebe Waller-Bridge

But this picture isn’t just about him – it’s about what his win meant

even these are now coming under threat

Not the most ambitious of the year