In this column, we provoke fresh thinking and round up some of the weird, wonderful, quirky, surprising – and shocking – stories out there

  Painting a picture of conflict on social media A judge has awarded a paint sprayer £28,560 for unfair dismissal after a ruling that his employer’s investigation into whether he had breached social media policy was inadequate. The judge ruled that the managing director of A1M Retro Classics “unreasonably confused what was required of an employee by the [company’s] social media policy”...