I don’t usually ask my readers for culinary advice, but I’m hoping you can help me. My wife’s quite an accomplished poultry cook, but we’re struggling to find a recipe that will do justice to the cut of meat we have acquired. So does anyone know where I can find a good penguin recipe?

The wondrous spectacle of revolutionary passion in Cairo has made me ponder what could occur here to launch a similar uprising. It is clear that the apparatus of the state has one glaring chink in it, a chink large enough for a big long pointy thing to get inside and cause a bit of bother.…