A Chinese-language broadcast from Moscow said the Tienanmen crowds were indeed against Mao but the burning of vehicles and building was started by the Maoists to provide themselves with excuses for stepped-up suppression. We don’t know whether this was the case, but we have learned that some 50,000 Peiping students have been sent to rural and frontier areas since the incident, that corpses have been floating down the Pearl River from Canton, and that the Maoists have been crying out savagely.

Whether one has endured a single knockout blow, cumulative indignities, or sheer annoyance from a lifetime of milder femalecentric slights, a whole lot of women are admitting they just aren't feeling inclined to open up […]

“Now I believe it’s someone’s birthday today,” Michael [Gambon] said in his finest Dumbledorian tones.

Those of us who care for the nation's defence have been astonished to hear that confidential documents have been left in a public house.