Why Easter Is The Best Holiday Of All. Even Without A Hint Of Sun

Ideally, for diary purposes, it would be today but we cannot allow simple chronological misfortune to allow yesterday to go unmarked.

- Lucy Mangan

Monday For 6 April 1990 was the day that married women became recognised by HMRC as beings - get this! - independent from their husbands and started having their incomes taxed separately from their spouses'. Of course, many said the rot would set in and it's true that just a few short years later rape in marriage became a crime, as people started to think that maybe wives' bodies as well as their earnings were their own and things briefly started looking up all round.

The feminist story has, gosh, had its ups and downs since but I think it's important to remember and celebrate the wins there have been. Otherwise, you know, you might just lie down and cry instead.

Tuesday Dire wolves are back, baby! And to answer your first question - no, apparently they weren't just an invention of Game of Thrones but a real thing that became extinct 10,000 years ago. And now they're not! Sort of. The peerlessly excellently named company Colossal Biosciences Inc extracted dire wolf DNA from fossilised remains, whacked it into some grey wolf cells (stop me if I'm getting too technical) and, hey presto, three extremely muscular pups were born and are now being held at a secret 2,000-acre facility somewhere in the northern US while someone, I guess, works out why they did this and what exactly should happen next.