Digested week: I emerge from my soundproof box to more news of idiots | Lucy Mangan

This week ticketless Bravehearts seize' Edinburgh Castle and scientists grow a Raab replacement in the lab

Today I disappeared into a lightless, windowless, soundproofed room, four or five feet square, with nothing but myself and a book for company for three days. This would be a lifetime's ambition fulfilled were it not for the fact the book is one I wrote and I am in this foam-lined oubliette in order to read it aloud while a man in the next room along records it for publishing-in-audiobook-form purposes.