Digested week: Murdoch goes soppy (again) and UK leaders get awkward

Plus: Posh Spice's parenting and the white British male love-in at the Washington Post

So much bad news around these days, but at the beginning of this week, like a shaft of pure sunlight, we heard of a nonagenarian finding love and marrying his sweetheart in a small ceremony attended only by his closest business associates and, judging by reports, none of his children.