Quiet and stoical, Rose Snr developed his son's calm temperament through years of turmoil

"A poem should not mean, but be," in Archibald MacLeish's famous words.

Cool sleuth presses all the right buttons

David Cameron's rather embarrassing Freudian slip...

1. Inquiries into phone hacking.

"Angels always speak in German, it's traditional," maintains fledgling shrink Dr Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender, who appears half-asleep here) to his deranged patient, Sabina (Keira Knightley, trying her best).

1. The Perfect Storm

In north London, book-lovers have put David Cameron's Big Society into practice. And nationwide the issue has struck a chord

Lucian Freud's unflinching paintings reveal everything about their sitters' flesh and little of their personalities – indeed, are they portraiture at all?

Starring: Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley / Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer

Jane McAdam Freud's imposing sculpture of her father helped her cope with his death, she tells Charlotte Cripps

Lucian Freud's sculptor daughter, Jane McAdam Freud, has made a gigantic earthstone triptych sculpture of her late father's head, to help "keep him alive". Made in terracotta and measuring 3ft x 3ft x 1ft, the giant relief only came out of the kiln last week. "I can't put in words how it helped me with the grieving process," she says. "I was keeping him alive in a metaphorical sense – he was there the whole time I was making it."

Romantic hero, sex addict, troubled intellectual, IRA hunger striker. He can play the lot, and more. And an astonishing run of performances has taken him from obscurity to the brink of the Oscars