Someone, somewhere has to write speeches for world leaders to deliver in the event of disaster. Examples such as the Queen's nuclear war address offer a chilling hint at what could have been

Today’s latest hot Richard III news was yet another nail in a very thoroughly hammered coffin. The man has been dead for 528 years, after all

Not everyone who is interested in sexual images wants to see violence. But, since that's now the norm, how can we shame ourselves out of this?

In retrospect, of the many macabre vignettes that arose from the Philpott case, perhaps the very strangest was one that took place by appointment with the media. Mick Philpott, leaning against his wife Mairead, a tissue clutched to his eyes, his shoulders shaking, his face cast down: a plausible simulacrum of a man weighed down by grief.

In the Netherlands, meanwhile, not a single such fatality has been recorded

We love receiving letters. We value them as a historical record. What we can't be bothered to do any more is to take the time to write them – as the privatisation of Royal Mail makes only too clear. Is our future to be a solely electronic one?

There will be hordes of them. It will never, ever end. We will hear about it until we die

By seeking refuge in limbo while fleeing the most powerful nation on Earth, they exemplify the romance of the contemporary fugitive

From California to London, companies are reimagining their office spaces. Are they insufferably smug or do they make us more productive? Archie Bland grabs a desk to find out

The tournament is, for some, a kind of safari trip into the world of fandom