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You may associate Saturday Night Fever with the late-seventies box office smash featuring the dancefloor stylings of a young John Travolta. But, for the average A&E doctor, it's the roll call of hedonism-related afflictions they are likely to encounter in the small hours of a Sunday morning that may spring more readily to mind. One of resident medical experts is here with a few cautionary tales.
It was Sunday afternoon fever in our household last weekend, when we sat down to watch my football team, Spurs, take on non-league Tamworth in the FA Cup. I was expecting Tottenham's stellar line-up to put a hatful of goals past Tamworth's part-timers. In fact Tamworth did themselves proud, coming within a whisker of winning the game and forcing Spurs to extra time, eventually losing 3-0. Tamworth midfielder Tom McGlinchey, whose day job is as a sports psychology lecturer for Nottingham Trent University, explains how he and his team-mates psyched themselves up for the game of their lives.
On Monday, Donald Trump will be sworn into office for his second term as president of the United States. We'll be covering the dawn of Trump 2.0 as it happens, of course, but to whet your appetites, we have this long read examining the "Trump revolution" considering where it came from and where it may go. We also look into how Elon Musk is influencing Trump's foreign policy and what that might mean. Meanwhile we also pick up on a
decline in the number of people opting for American studies at university in the UK, which is something of a puzzle when you think about everything that's happening right now.
This weekend's marquee entertainment could well be a trip to the cinema to see Timothy Chamelet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. By all accounts he gives an amazing performance and the pedigree of director James Mangold as the brains behind the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic is impeccable.
While we're on the movies, we have this tribute to the work of David Lynch, who died this week. Lynch was a true artist of the screen whose brilliance defies categorisation.
This week we also wondered whether aliens really exist (here's what scientists think). We considered the travails currently besetting the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and we worried about a reported rise in
bowel cancer in the under-50s.
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