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Cricket: Why Can't England Defend?
Jennings: Averages 11.
Issue Of The Week: Managing The Gig Economy
Companies such as Deliveroo and Uber have transformed employment for better and worse – creating a challenge for policymakers
The Feminist Who Brought 'Ms.' To The Masses
Ms: not a typo
Radical Poet Who Founded The Republic Of Frestonia
Williams: “there are no rules”
This Week's Dream: A Private Island Off Madagascar
With its unique wildlife and extraordinary history, the vast Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is one of the world’s most “fascinating” countries.
What The Experts Recommend
Flow Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Downtown Dubai, Dubai (04-3198767)Described as a “paleo health hub and creative work space”, Flow recently opened at Jumeirah Emirates Towers says What’s On.
Exhibition Of The Week Fahrelnissa Zeid
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, www.tate.org). Until 8 October
What The Scientists Are Saying...
A patch to deliver the flu vaccineA sticky patch that delivers flu vaccines into the skin via hundreds of dissolvable microneedles has been found to be safe in a key trial.
Labour's Brexit Fudge
“Time is running out for Remainer MPs who want to prevent a hard Brexit,” said Stephen Bush in the New Statesman.
Silicon Valley's Grand Designs
Apple, it was recently confirmed, is building a self-driving car. What else does America’s tech industry have in store for us?
Egypt's Christians In Peril After Vicious Crackdown
The bombing of two Egyptian churches on Palm Sunday was a massive security failure, said Aya Nader in Al-Monitor (Washington DC).
Father Of Our Nation
Motivate Publishing 128 pp AED95
Jovial Writer Whose Books Evoked A Vanished Literary World
Jeremy Lewis 1942-2017Jeremy Lewis, who has died aged 75, was a writer, editor, publisher and memoirist – and “one of the best-loved figures in the London literary world”, said The Daily Telegraph. A “Grub Street irregular”, was how he described himself. Bear-like, bespectacled and amiable, he was almost pathologically self-effacing. But his “silly ass act” – in the words of his cousin Roger Lewis – was a carapace that concealed his gifts as a writer: a perceptive observer, he wrote several acclaimed biographies, and “three splendidly funny volumes of autobiography”.