JH: Let's do some quick-fire topical questions.
Oral antibiotics are used to treat rosacea because they reduce inflammation and redness quicker than topical antibiotics.
Add to this an endless variety of humor -- from lame to clever, slapstick to topical satire, quick quips to audience participation...
But he also writes children's songs and topical songs with quick reflexes and wry insights.
We also have a quick poll that tackles a topical issue each week, but we're keen on further comments on why you think what you do.
This is a first for me in terms of doing a cover that's topical with a quick turnaround, and somehow these two significant events just came together into that one image for me.
Tom Paxton, who has written songs like "The Last Thing on My Mind" that are so unassumingly right that they seem traditional, also writes children's songs and topical songs with quick reflexes.
"We live in a culture of the Mock the Week topical one-liner, or the quick Twitter joke," she says.
"Cabaret is topical, it's cheap and quick to put together, and you can build in all the literary and artistic energies," says Appignanesi, who speaks at the Southbank on Sunday.
