1 Andrew Brown on Stieg Larsson: 'Any book which contains the sentence, “She was locked inside an area of about a thousand square metres with a murderous robot from hell” can’t be all bad, any more than it can be excellent'
2 Gail Collins on health reform: "The people who darkly warn about government bureaucrats forcing insurance companies to cut back our coverage appear to be the same ones who just voted to force insurance companies to stop covering abortions"
3 The Moor Next Door offers an Algerian perspective on the Egypt-Algeria football fracas
4 The Economist on James Lees-Milne: "Occasionally he slept with sisters of friends from his Etonian past because they were the next best thing"