An oil-stained BP uniform is the Halloween outfit for 2010 | Hadley Freeman

You can tell a lot about Americans' state of mind by their Halloween costumes. This year's baddies are BP and Lady GagaCertain developments over the past week have brought me enormous satisfaction. There was the fact that Desmond Tutu announced his retirement in the week of 10/10/10, which was, as numerically based news goes, only possible to better if his name was Tututu. Another was Martin Amis announcing that it is simply impossible for anyone to write good sex scenes, which would be like me ...

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