GreensladeMedia This article is more than 7 years oldMadam President: how Newsweek reported a Clinton victoryThis article is more than 7 years oldNewsweek’s editor did what any sensible magazine chief would have done by preparing an issue based on a very different US presidential result... It could all have been so different. Newsweek’s editor had obviously prepared issues for both possible US presidential election results, as is normal practice in such events.

FashionMargot Tenenbaum: this season's hottest fashion muse is actually a school guidance counsellorThis autumn/winter the fashion industry has been united in its devotion to one muse – the excessively eyelinered Wes Anderson character Margot Tenenbaum. But what’s all the adoration like for the real woman who shares her name? My name is Margot Tenenbaum but I’m not the Margot you’ve been reading about in glossy magazines this autumn/winter – the “coolest muse of the season”, according to fashion critics and Gucci, as played by Gwyneth Paltrow in the 2001 Wes Anderson movie The Royal Tenenbaums.

Nottingham ForestObituaryNigel Doughty obituaryPrivate equity investor with a passion for progressive causes, Labour politics – and Nottingham Forest Football ClubNigel Doughty was a big man, successful in business, with generosity to match. Tall, good-looking and clever, yet modest and unassuming, he never lost contact with his working-class roots in Newark, in Nottinghamshire. He was found dead at the age of 54 in the gym at his home - unexpectedly given his degree of fitness.

Pop and rockObituaryRay Thomas obituaryFounding member of the Moody Blues best known as the group’s flautistRay Thomas, a founding member of the Moody Blues, who has died aged 76, played various instruments, including the French horn, oboe, piccolo, harmonica and saxophone, but was best known as the group’s flautist. Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson would become rock’s most flamboyant flute-brandisher. However, Thomas’s solo in the band’s biggest hit Nights in White Satin, which went to No 2 in the US and reached No 9 in the UK at the end of 1967 (one of its three appearances in the UK Top 20), perfectly encapsulated the song’s mood of mystical melancholy.

Poverty matters blogDemocratic Republic of the CongoAfrica: a continent drenched in the blood of revolutionary heroesBetween 1961 and 1973, six African independence leaders were assassinated by their ex-colonial rulers, including Patrice Lumumba of Congo, who was killed 50 years ago todayPatrice Lumumba, prime minister of newly independent Congo, was the second of five leaders of independence movements in African countries to be assassinated in the 1960s by their former colonial masters, or their agents.