TV reviewTelevisionReviewMurderers, the BBC, journalists – Lynda La Plante's got it in for all of themAbove Suspicion: The Red Dahlia (ITV1) is based on one of Lynda la Plante's novels. I didn't realise she was a novelist, but apparently she writes one a year, which reminds me of Dame Edna Everage's remark to Melvyn Bragg, another dogged novelist: "Don't write any more, Melvyn darling. Give us a chance to catch up. Read More...
Illustration: Natasha Law @breedlondon for the GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Natasha Law @breedlondon for the GuardianSexIn a Bedfordshire nightclub, white couples queue to have sex with black men. Meanwhile, black women are routinely snubbed on dating sites. Why do racial stereotypes persist when it comes to sex?
It’s past midnight, November 2016, in Dunstable, a small town in Bedfordshire. My friend Miranda has accompanied me here for moral support. Read More...
DinosaursThe Natural History Museum's original Archaeopteryx skeleton is known as the "London specimen", and a replica is on public display there.
In all, 10 Archaeopteryx skeletons have been discovered, all in quarries in Bavaria, south-east Germany, within a radius of about 15 miles. The fossils were buried in very fine-grained limestone near the village of Solnhofen (during the Jurassic period, this part of Germany was covered by a warm, shallow lagoon with a soft mud bottom that has proved ideal for preserving ancient fossils). Read More...