As Milane forages for identity from the run of the mill experiences twentysomething youth offers her, she sinks deeper and deeper into an alternate reality where the real and the surreal are indistinguishable.

One regular man named Simon is swept up by a popular movement in a dying world. When the charismatic leader of that movement is brutally executed, everyone looks to Simon to keep the movement alive.

For Democracy Day, which commemorates the 750th anniversary of the earliest Parliament in Britain, Mark D'Arcy presents a short history of the De Montfort Parliament.

Turkey allowed the US to use its airbase at Incirlik in southern Turkey as part of the "extraordinary rendition" programme to take suspected terrorists to Guantánamo Bay.