W Stephen Gilbert Corsham, Wiltshire Liz Kendall provides instant answers to election defeat (We have got to face up to the catastrophe, 16 May).
Director Mike Lee's Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy Turvy, was also nominated for five awards, including best original screenplay and best actor for star Jim Broadbent, and best supporting actor for Timothy Spall.
Topsy-Turvy, Mike Leigh's fine film about the genesis of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, took two well-deserved Oscars for costume and make-up, but these look like the Academy's dutiful, uncomprehending nod to something heritage and picturesque.
Leigh and Minghella were nominated for best screenplay, with Leigh an early favourite for his story about the comically strained relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan.
Mr. Gilbert is undaunted.
"Look," Gilbert shouted, "don't just shout at me".
"The critical buzz has undeniably moved from HBO to AMC," according to Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe.
Al acted as a mother to Maya Wild and Cass Wild, before having her own daughter.
Finally, we mentioned Stephen Gilbert, the Liberal Democrat MP for St Austell & Newquay, who said he was the only MP at the last election still living with his parents.
In last year's word-of-mouth bestseller, Eat Pray Love, it took author Elizabeth Gilbert nine months - and a tour of Italy, India and Bali - to find both herself and the last item on that list.
Labour certainly will not recover if its leadership candidates do the Tories' work for them W Stephen Gilbert Labour will not recover by recasting itself as Tory-lite: fiscally responsible, austerity aware, NHS privatising but, as everyone knows, less competent at these things than the Tories are.
