Brian Thompson’s death has elicited little sympathy. I don’t need to spell out why | Arwa Mahdawi

Brian Thompson was gunned down in what appears to have been a targeted attack in Manhattan .

He was a top executive at a company that has treated millions of people very poorly.

Nobody knows what the motive behind Thompson ’s murder was yet, but the shooter wrote “deny”, “defend” and “depose” on the shell casings left at the scene.

Dr Ally Louks , a University of Cambridge supervisor, recently posted a picture of herself on X with her completed PhD , which was on the politics of smell (a scentillating subject) Dr Louks was bombarded with rape threats after posting the picture.

A German festival that had drawn criticism over a practice of men hitting women with cow's horns passed without reports of assaults this year .