Brace yourself. Ogilvy has made a great ad. Really. Really nice. Not just that, it has made a great ad for one of those products that you never see great ads for: fabric softener. Go on, pinch yourself. And then search Comfort "nudists" on YouTube.

It is hard to think of a more wrong-headed response from Gordon Brown to his plummeting popularity than the expected approval today for the re-classification of cannabis. This will constitute a reversal of a reform introduced only four years ago that downgraded cannabis from a class B to class C narcotic.

This fierce book acts as a corrective to the trumpeting – how many times did we hear Thus Spake Zarathustra? – of Nasa and its starry-eyed supporters. DeGroot's polemic against America's $35bn lunar obsession encompasses the erotic lure of rockets ("most boys... become interested in girls"), dubious spin-offs ("only an astronaut needs to know how to make urine potable") and Neil Armstrong's "One small step" ("a freeze-dried slogan"). It is hard to disagree with DeGroot's conclusion that the "Moon voyage was the ultimate ego trip", but it is equally hard to imagine America not going.

Anorexia used to be regarded as a teenagers' disease. But now, the prevalence of youthful-looking older celebrities such as Sharon Stone and Madonna is being linked to a rise in the number of women in their 50s being treated for anorexia and other eating disorders.

Jobless drug addicts who refuse to be treated for their habit face having their benefit cut, the Government will announce today.

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