NOOKS AND CRANNIESHas there ever been a female dictator? Alice Reynolds, London UK
My question is 'why are there so many left-wing comedians on here? And why do they only have one joke between them?' Chris Brown, Reading UK
Chris Brown, it's probably because this is the Guardian's web-site and not the Telegraph's. Carmen Lichi, London
If one accepts the concepts of hegemony and the 'tyranny of the majority' (or minority, given the foibles of our voting system), then Thatcher is a legitimate example of a dictator. Read More...
ROOT OF ALL EVILI have a time machine and I want to travel backwards about 50 years and make a lot of money by investing in stock, buying property and betting on events that I already know the result of. With the effects of inflation I reckon that a reasonably attainable sum of money in 2002 (say ?10000) will be a small fortune in 1952 and allow me to make investments which will make me a multi-millionaire. Read More...
FilmReviewMaybe you thought you knew what to expect from Pedro Almodovar , the modern master of camp hysteria. Live Flesh , his new film, begins and ends with two impromptu secular nativities, a quarter of a century apart, on Madrid's late-night buses. In between it features drugs, shootings, and lots of sex, some of it involving a paraplegic. On that evidence, Live Flesh sounds like the right sort of title for the usual formula. Read More...
