Portrait of the week | 1 October 2015

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In his speech at the Labour party conference, much of it taken from material that had been on the internet for some time, Jeremy Corbyn, its new leader, told the British people that most of them shared his values, such as ‘fair play for all, solidarity and not walking by on the other side of the street’. ​Mr Corbyn urged: ‘Let us build a kinder politics, a more caring society together.’ Supporters of the Class War movement with fiery torches and pig masks attacked the hipsterish Cereal Killer Café in Brick Lane, east London​.​ The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate apologised after an RAF sergeant was moved away from other patients because staff said his uniform might cause offence. ​The full moon took on a bloody tinge​ during a lunar eclipse.

At Britain’s request the UN imposed sanctions limiting travel and movement of assets on four declared jihadists supporting the Islamic State: Omar Hussain from High Wycombe, Nasser Muthana from Cardiff, Aqsa Mahmood from Glasgow and Sally-Anne Jones from Chatham. In Calais, a migrant bound for England died at the tunnel mouth, the 13th to die since late June.​ Dark stripes on slopes on Mars are caused by trickling water, Nasa scientists said.​

Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Féin, who was arrested last year for questioning about the IRA’s murder of Jean McConville in 1972, will not be charged, the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland ruled. ​Sarah Sands, aged 32, ​of Canning Town, ​was jailed for 42 months for the manslaughter by reason of loss of control, of Michael Pleasted, 77, who had been charged with sexually assaulting young boys on the east London estate where they lived. Marie Black, 34, of Norwich, was sentenced to life on 23 charges relating to a child sex-abuse circle.