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Rhodri Marsden: Why I won't get fooled again

Life on Marsden

Rhodri Marsden: "This is my friend, he's an idiot" would give me something to build on

This week Rhodri worries about first impressions

Life on Marsden

This is Rhodri's world, we're just reading about it. Week one: turning 40

Susie Rushton: Greek crisis? What crisis?

Notebook

Harriet Walker: 'Now is the perfect time to think food'

Autumn is the perfect time to think about food – and that's saying something, because I think about food almost all of the time. Whether I'm choosing a pie over a salad or rolling the icing off a Victoria sponge and eating it as a snowy, squidgy flump come the four o'clock tea break, my inner Tannoy is normally musing aloud about the next snack in the piggy pipeline.

Shaun Walker: Very much not ready for take-off

Notebook from Moscow

Nicholas Lezard: The problem for rockers who don't die before they grow old

Good news for ageing rockers and pop stars as the law is being changed so that their compositions remain in copyright for 70 years, rather than 50, which was hitherto considered sufficient.

Susie Rushton: This is one tattoo too far

Notebook

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The Cannes debt festival

The Cannes debt festival

G20 summit that could make or break world economy
The rise of the casual daddy

The rise of the casual daddy

Hugh Grant's latest role: being a father without a relationship
Another fine mess for the bĂȘte noire of French satire

Charlie Hebdo

Another fine mess for the bĂȘte noire of French satire
Anna Chapman: The spy who came into the wrong restaurant...

Anna Chapman

The spy who came into the wrong restaurant...
The 10 best new memoirs

10 best memoirs

Chosen by Samuel Muston
All hail the sticking plaster: The genius of everyday stuff

All hail the sticking plaster

The genius of everyday stuff
Alice just keeps on growing: The rich legacy of Lewis Carroll's strange little girl

Alice just keeps on growing

Rich legacy of Lewis Carroll's strange little girl
Giles Duley: 'To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive is lucky'

'To have your legs blown off and survive is lucky'

Photographer Giles Duley
The ten best new computer games

Ten best new computer games

From highly-anticipated Zelda to the must-have Battlefield 3
All together then: How the fanzine 'The End' gave Liverpool its voice

How 'The End' gave Liverpool its voice

Fanzine attained cult status across UK
Robert Fisk: Al Jazeera - 15 years in the headlines

Robert Fisk on Al Jazeera

15 years in the headlines
Would you give a kidney to someone you'd never met?

Would you give a kidney to somebody you'd never met?

We meet people who did
UN fears Pakistani rogue scientist passed on nuclear secrets to Syria

Rogue scientist

UN fears Pakistani passed nuclear secrets to Syria
James Lawton: Guilty verdicts do not bring closure, just more questions to haunt game's authorities

James Lawton on spot-fixing trio

Guilty verdicts do not bring closure, just more questions to haunt game's authorities
From major laughing stock to top-four challengers: what has gone right at Newcastle?

What has gone right at Newcastle

From major laughing stock to top-four challengers: Jason Mellor outlines Alan Pardew's six-point plan for success