If, as Mr Magueijo claims, he wanted us to take the diatribes that litter his book as jokes, they fall crashingly flat.

ECONOMIST: Modern physics

The meat of the story is that dreamy singleton Bridget must choose between the dashing bounder, Daniel, played by Hugh Grant, and the seemingly crashingly dull Mark Darcy (a cheeky piece of casting with King of the Darcys, Colin Firth).

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He knew being a realistic man as well as a crashingly impractical one, who once missed Greta Garbo's glass by a mile when serving her at Chateau Lafite, and also drove a horse and trap through a gate only wide enough for the horse that co-ops were hard to create.

ECONOMIST: Robert Oakeshott