One tax law for us and another for Amazon
Britain’s reluctance to pursue multinationals risks turning us into another Italy
Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it
We should seek neither to dismiss nor to deify the Victorians; rather we should try to understand them, and our view of them
Dan Brown’s Inferno: A secret I had to hide from all prying eyes
A first look at the new book, a Dante-themed novel, reveals a tasty cocktail of high culture and low thrills
Last Tango dances off with Bafta prize for ‘love story about people over 35′
TV awards also go to host Graham Norton, Channel 4′s Paralympics coverage, Michael Palin and Clare Balding
Richard III replica head to go on show in York
Lifesize reconstruction made from detailed scans of skull found in Leicester car park will be Yorkshire Museum’s centrepiece
Midsomer Murders keeps Danes glued to TV
Gentle rural crime drama ‘has beaten everything the competition can come up with’ on Saturday nights for 12 years
Fifty Shades of Grey boosts book trade
EL James’s erotic trilogy and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games novels topped the books charts last year and contributed to an overall rise in digital and print sales for 2012
Charles Moore winning race of Margaret Thatcher biographers
Authorised volume outselling Not for Turning, by Thatcher speechwriter Robin Harris, at a rate of over three to one
Star Trek Into Darkness – Review
JJ Abrams’s follow-up to his 2009 Star Trek film is an astute, if more world-weary, take on the sci-fi legend
• Post your question for JJ Abrams and the cast of Star Trek Into Darkness here
£188m Birmingham library project ready for finishing touch – 2.3m books
Builders pack up and clear out after completing work on biggest public cultural project in Britain, with opening set for September
Samsung Galaxy S 4: First Reviews
US reviewers have got their hands on Samsung’s new flagship smartphone – is it better than the iPhone 5 or HTC One?
Samsung Galaxy S 4 release hit by supply shortages
Customers will not be able to take home device from most mobile phone shops in UK and US during launch weekend
Aldi own-label gin beats more expensive rivals in blind taste test
Supermarket’s £9.65 gin wins silver medal at International Spirits Challenge, scoring higher than Bombay Sapphire and Hendricks
Lionel Shriver: Time to talk about her big brother
The author, who won the Orange prize for We Need to Talk About Kevin, is noted for her honesty. But her new novel, inspired by the obesity that killed a sibling, is her most courageous book yet
Margaret Thatcher’s imperial funeral doesn’t suit 21st century democracy
How distressing if this solemn event turns into a farcical reminder of the hubris and divisiveness of the Thatcher era
Apple bans gay sex images in adult comic
New edition of Saga comic cannot be sold through iOS apps, prompting fury from authors
• Update: comic app Comixology has taken responsibility for blocking the issue
