Digested week: Crap telly, power naps – oh and I think I may have saved a friend’s life | John Crace

Also this week, Sunak fails to go out with a bang, while his party can just about be bothered to pick his replacement

Life skills you never knew you had. A little while ago I met a friend for lunch in a central London restaurant. It was all about as normal as any meal out can be. After ordering our food we proceeded to catch up on each other’s weeks. How the government was doing, what friends were up to and what we had been reading and watching on TV.

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