David Baddiel says cutting down his live performances coincided with an improvement in his mental health. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Say what you like about David Baddiel but you can’t say he’s lacking in ambition. Take the novel to which he’s currently... 

Head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, said activity dropped in the second quarter. Photograph: Ramin Talaie/EPA Alistair Darling’s one-off bank bonus tax cost Goldman Sachs $600m (£395m), the Wall Street bank said today as it revealed that its wage and bonus bill reached $9.2bn in... 

Comic-Con attendees cross the street in downtown San Diego (they are the ones in the white body armour and helmet) Photograph: Denis Poroy/AP The concept, look and tone of Super, a new superhero movie which had its presentation at Comic-Con, reminded me of something but I can’t think... 

A scene from Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time. Photograph: 20th Century Fox One was the year of A Clockwork Orange and decimalisation. The other was that of Avatar and the shattered economy. But while 1971 and 2009 were wildly different in terms of the technological limits of... 

Barrie (left) and Tony with Saffron and Aspen. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian The family in My Weird and Wonderful Family (Channel 4) took a bit of getting my head around. They’re more of an unclear family than a nuclear one. So there are gay dads Tony and Barrie. That’s...