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My week A Highland birthday party delights the creator of Rumpole, who muses on the joys of being a writer, irritating everyone at the Home Office and the pitfalls of having a swimming pool. |
The ant king's latest mission
Robin McKie: The celebrated scientist, who found fame studying our smallest creatures, has never been far from controversy and his new campaign - Christianity and science uniting to save the world - will put him back in the spotlight.
A good week / bad week for ...
Winners and losers this week.
Quotes of the week ...
Margaret Hodge | Tony Benn | Kirsten Dunst | Rod Stewart | Naomi Campbell | Anne Hathaway
Reading matter
Notes and ephemera
Pull yourself together
Victoria Coren: What wusses we 21st century ladies are. In 1846, when Charlotte Bronte was writing Jane Eyre, women wore real, whalebone corsets, every day of their lives, which made their breathing shallow, weakened their back muscles and gave them curvature of the spine.
At last, those memos they didn't want you to see ... much
Armando Iannucci: The leaked memo saying that morale in armed forces is low has made morale in armed forces even lower.
Pendennis
Oliver Marre: Can Dave really get his eco policies to fly? | Call a spade ... | Tracey's bombshell | Merlin? It's simply wizard | Tax is so taxing for Peaches | Oh dear, Liam's hopping mad again | Come hither, Tony | Tacky Taki steals the Body's thunder
