Eagle-eyed viewers spotted PR Dave's maniacally darting pupils.
Camerons candid camera
Bishop Chartres arrived at St Pauls like Churchill at the Admiralty
The lost lion of Kabul
In 2000, after the flight of the mullahs, one Pashtun warlord offered a viable way of uniting the factions in Afghanistan and finishing off the Taliban. His name was Abdul Haq. First, the CIA supported him then it stabbed him in the back.
A conspiracy of optimism
Max Benitz spent months as a journalist with British troops on the front line in Helmand. Here, he reflects on the muddled thinking that characterised the early years of the Afghan conflict.
An offshore island in the Thames
If you want financial reform, the City is a good place to start.
Holmes and away
Arthur Conan Doyle is cherished as the creator of one of the best-loved detectives in English literature but his talents as an author ranged far and wide, from science fiction to swashbucklers.
Top Boy (Channel 4)
Rachel Cooke celebrates a young actor she never tires of watching.
Rich and red and laced with politics
Nina Caplan launches her Drink column for the New Statesman with a tour of that most unlikely of bibulous states Lebanon.
In this week's New Statesman: The NHS 1948-2011, so what comes next?
Helen Lewis-Hasteley on sexism online | Mehdi Hasan on nuclear Iran | Andy Burnham on NHS and the markets
Grand Pursuit: the Story of Economic Genius
The ideological fantasies of modern economics.
"The Sway of a Coastal Pine Tree"
Others may swoon, but Ill never love Man City
Christopher Hitchens night: a review
Stephen Fry, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Sean Penn and others unite to celebrate Hitchens.
Sublime intervention
Bombino and the Tuareg guitar revolution.
Gordon Taylor is not a royal princess
A key question at todays select committee hearing.
Rick Perry's fate sealed by an "Oops"
To think that all those millions of dollars raised should come to this: a man who looks too stupid to win the nomination.
Political sketch: No respect for the Murdoch family
James Murdoch's second stint in front of the Culture committee.
Mike Tyson spoofs Herman Cain
"The Tea Party loves crazy even more than they hate blacks".
Ed Miliband might have read too much into phone-hacking
The Labour leader's stance against the Murdochs was a turning point of sorts, but it didn't change the rules of the game
Morning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read pieces from this morning's newspapers.