As promised, this week is simply pudding recipes taken from Len Deighton. Although it is tempting to quote some of the positive emails we receive (‘I am shocked that anyone would email you to suggest that you should “lay off politics”‘) set next to the (few) horrible ones, what is the point? Instead, let’s all eat pudding and read Dorothy Whipple (although she isn’t always cheerful, far from it, page 218 of Someone at a Distance invariably causes the tears to flow) and watch Foyle’s War – and try and pretend none of this is happening: yes, you have indeed woken up to discover the following headline – Nigel Farage might be US Ambassador.