BooksReviewThe former secretary of state wants to be president. His vicious memoir will sell, but he may not find buyers at the polls Mike Pompeo is prescient, at least. Back in 2016, as a congressman, he warned Kansas Republicans of the danger posed by Donald Trump. Pompeo lamented that the US had already endured more than seven years of “an authoritarian president who ignored our constitution” – meaning Barack Obama – and cautioned that a Trump presidency would be no different.

Civil rights movementObituaryTom Hayden obituaryCampaigner against injustice and critic of the Vietnam warWhen he was running, unsuccessfully, in the 1990s to be governor of California, Tom Hayden, who has died aged 76, complained ruefully to the Los Angeles Times that his image among the voters of his adopted state could be summed up in just four words: “60s radical Jane Fonda”. He had been married for 17 years to Fonda, Hollywood royalty and a living symbol of what many loved and more despised about the New Left.

Film This article is more than 4 years oldTrue History of the Kelly Gang's cross-dressing punk rock outlaw is not quite as radical as he looksThis article is more than 4 years oldJeff SparrowStan’s new film undercuts its own attempt to subvert the traditional masculinity in which the Ned Kelly myth is steeped Every generation reinvents Ned Kelly anew. The new Stan film production True History of the Kelly Gang self-consciously celebrates the innate pliability of the Kelly myth.

TV tonightTelevisionNatalie doesn’t remember having sex with Archie in this essential one-off film. Plus, Shamima Begum tells her story. Here’s what to watch this evening Consent10pm, Channel 4Emma Dennis-Edwards has written a queasy drama about sexual abuse and harassment in schools that gets under the skin and is excruciating from beginning to end. Set in a private school, it follows scholarship student Natalie, who doesn’t remember having sex with classroom crush Archie.

Wildlife This article is more than 3 years oldWild grey seal caught ‘clapping’ on camera for the first timeThis article is more than 3 years oldThe sound resembles ‘shotgun-like cracks’ and attracts potential mates A wild grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) has been caught “clapping” on camera for the first time, making sounds that resemble “shotgun-like cracks”. The large male was filmed striking its flippers together off the coast of the Farne Islands, near Northumberland, during the breeding season in 2017.