‘I would feel less used and alone if you pitched in financially, even a little.’ Composite: Getty‘I would feel less used and alone if you pitched in financially, even a little.’ Composite: GettyA letter to ...FamilyThe letter you always wanted to writeI remember the thrill of first seeing you at law school orientation. You were radiant in a sea of dour, nervous faces. It quickly became clear that you were kind, down-to-earth, engaging, loyal to family and friends.

The ObserverChina holidaysBig Mac, pizza, duck's foot and deer's penis soup...... that was the bizarre combination of old and new discovered by David Aaronovitch when he explored Shanghai and BeijingOn the river front in Shanghai, not long after dawn, the old chap with the red trousers let me fly his kite. The string stretched out from the reel into infinity, anchoring a white and red kite which soared above the Art Deco buildings of the Bund.

Sydney This article is more than 8 years oldDaniel Jack Kersall found guilty of stabbing Morgan Huxley to deathThis article is more than 8 years oldJury returns guilty verdict in less than three hours in relation to the Neutral Bay 2013 murder The man accused of stabbing Sydney man Morgan Huxley more than 20 times has been found guilty of his murder. It took the jury just under three hours to find Daniel Jack Kelsall guilty of indecently assaulting the 31-year-old and murdering him in the early hours of 8 September 2013.

TelevisionFrom E4’s new clothes-free hiking show to programmes featuring life-size holograms of contestants’ wobbly bits, television has become insatiably obsessed by nudity. But why? Reader, it is important that you remember where you are, today. Because it is a certainty that, in decades to come, your adorable grandchildren will gingerly approach you, tug on your cardigan and, in voices pure enough to break your heart into a million pieces, ask if you can remember the first full season of E4’s reality show Naked, Alone and Racing to Get Home.

The ObserverElon MuskThe billionaire’s posts began with a laboured gag and ended with a dangerous intervention into the reporting of the conflict in Gaza A year ago this week, when he completed the purchase of Twitter for $44bn, Elon Musk tweeted “the bird is freed”. Billionaires like nothing more than casting themselves as popular liberators, but the acquisition fitted the pattern of his ever-expanding empire. Musk has colonised areas of the economy from which public funding and regulation have been in retreat.