Digested week: Teslas strip BMW drivers of proud title of worst on road

‘Tesla drivers – on the road, on the internet, in real and in notional form – display a brand affiliation that goes all the way to the top.’ Photograph: Jay Janner/AP

Monday

A collective sigh of relief on Monday as news is confirmed that Emmanuel Macron has been re-elected as president of France, seeing off a threat from the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, and, shortly afterwards, tomato-throwing crowds in a suburb of Paris. Macron, who captured 58.6% of the vote, took his first walkabout post-election and was met with a barrage of squishy missiles, causing his security detail to unleash an Inspector Gadget-style device, after squealing the heads-up: “Projectile!” (It might not have been a squeal.)