Diary Why the Tortoise sale may be good for the Observer Also this week: reminiscing about print’s heyday and leaving technology at the theatre door. By Roger Alton
The lost art of the landline call Also this week: the ghost of Princess Di, and the end of the Caramac bar. By Roger Alton
A transcendent singalong with Bruce Springsteen in Rome Also this week: great journalists remembered, and a duck called Puskás. By Roger Alton