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Zoe Williams's Saturday sketch

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    Boris Johnson and Tony Abbott: the double act you knew you never needed

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    Needy former UK PM visibly struggled when some of Abbott’s (bonkers) points drew a bigger cheer than his at rightwing event
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    The Queen, the great uniter, couldn’t make it. Alas, Boris the great divider could

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    Service of thanksgiving raised the Genesis question – how many people can you swap out of this lineup before it ceases to be Genesis?
  • Anders Carlsson from Sweden

    ‘I don't understand the anger’: how the Europeans in London see Brexit

    People from all over the continent work in the capital – for now. They reveal their bewilderment and shock at the EU referendum result
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    Obama’s friendly message to UK: it's your decision (but stay in, you idiots)

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    On the subject of Brexiters, a note of scorn crept in – but the big news was Potus’s clear preference for the Queen over the PM
  • Steve Abraham cycling in Worcestershire.

    High hopes, disaster and a new start: a year in the saddle for record chaser

    A crash left Briton Steve Abraham far behind his US rival in the race to cycle the greatest number of miles in 12 months. But he’s not a man to give up easily
  • Miners leave after working the final shift at Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire.

    And now the game's over: Kellingley miners finish final shift

    Mining is dangerous, arduous work but people doing this job love it. Now, as one union rep says, the industry has ‘thrown them on the scrapheap’
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    Purists, predators and freestylers: the citizens of adult Lego land

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    Ghostbusters and Big Bang Theory sets tell you Lego is targeting older enthusiasts – and you’ll find quite a few of them at the Brick exhibition
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    Bristol Old Vic's gender-swap panto: a riotous but subtle Sleeping Beauty

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    Director Sally Cookson says she loved the idea of a generous and sweet prince in the title role – but Zoe Williams’ daughter would have preferred a princess
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    Taking a break from social media: how many virtual hugs equal a real one?

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    This week I went off Facebook and Twitter to test the theory that social media makes you miserable. I was no happier, but I had more time
  • Cycling at Barnes sports club

    Keen amateurs won't waste their energy on athletes who dope

    Triathlon enthusiasts at Barnes sports club in London feel they have little in common with the win at all costs attitude of professional sportspeople
  • M&S in High Street, Birmingham.

    It's not that M&S's clothes have got older, but that old people have got younger

    From their not-quite-right pink to their too-long mini skirts, it’s in the retailer’s DNA to always get it slightly wrong
  • Lincoln Miles at his prepping shop in Roxton, Bedfordshire

    Meet the preppers: inside the UK's only one-stop apocalypse shop

    Most towns in the US have a ‘prepping’ store, where people can get everything they need to survive the end of the world. The UK has one. Zoe Williams pays a visit
  • Richard, 43, an Old Republic Sith lord

    'I'm just a generic Jedi': fans have Star Wars in their eyes at Comic-Con

    In an exhibition centre not so far, far away, light stick-wielding adults have been getting excited about the latest instalment of the intergalactic saga
  • Zoe Williams on an e-board

    Move over cars, the Swegway is here. Or it would be if it wasn't illegal

    It’s not quite a hoverboard, but it’s close enough. If only the pesky police hadn’t banned it, we could all be living happily in the future
  • Ken Dodd on stage at Darlington Civic theatre

    'Bring blankets. Bring breakfast': my night with Ken Dodd

    Performing on stage at 87, the comedian is still in it for the long haul. And with at least five hours of relentless japery to sit through, so is his audience
  • The SSI steelworks in Redcar

    'It's another kick in the teeth': Redcar steels itself for the worst

    After hearing that the steelworks are to be be mothballed, local people are debating how the the town will cope without its biggest employer
  • Melissa Devine and Siobhon Quinn from Omagh.

    They're happy and they know it in Fermanagh and Omagh

    The area is not all postcard-pretty and has certainly had its troubles, so what is it that makes people in this part of Northern Ireland so content?
  • Tom Patterson flying a DJI Inspire drone near Reading.

    Droneland: where hobbyists rule the skies

    Formerly just deadly military devices, now anyone can buy and fly a drone – but mastering one is another matter altogether
  • Mandy Lacey-Cross, Aidan Lavin, centre, and Stewart Cross outside the Dancing Man in Southampton

    'Brewsters are women. Brewers are men': inside the micropub world

    Will the story of the Dancing Man – a brewhouse featuring 1,000-year-old pillars from a Spanish galleon – make you thirsty or leave you foaming at the mouth?
  • Milk man, Guy Bond, gets a kiss from Crystal Ming on his final round to customers in the village of Weedon, Buckinghamshire. 

For Zoe Williams Saturday Sketch. 

Photograph by Felix Clay

    When you lose your village milkman, you lose more than milk

    Guy Bond’s family has served Weedon, Bucks, since 1901. Now there’s no one to replace him, and the villagers are crying
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