The article on the attempt by Somali forces to rescue a Danish couple and their three teenage children, which resulted in the deaths of at least nine people, was interesting but should have been much farther forward (it was on page 34, behind various less gripping foreign stories).
I was interested to read earlier in World news that four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore is to play Sarah Palin in a film based on the 2008 US presidential campaign. Moore is a fine actress but she’ll have her work cut out, as the ridiculousness (in my opinion) of the former Governor of Alaska is not easily feigned.
The news feature about Stratford’s new theatre didn’t make it clear that it was the first play to be performed in the RSC’s new home. That, and it would have been better placed in the arts section in Times2.
I enjoyed Gerald Davies’s Commentary on this weekend’s Six Nations matches. He is a true all-rounder, and it is always a pleasure to read the views of the former Wales and British Lions great. Though quite what the quicksilver Davies would make of the graphic on page 68 about 17-stone centres charging headlong into each other one could only guess at. In his day it was the rapier thrust, rather than the bludgeon, that did for the opposition.