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15:24 UK time, Tuesday, 27 November 2007

A Doctor Who double whammy today. Not only is Billie Piper returning, but apparently the star himself has never been so popular...
Edward Green, London, UK

Re the freedom of speech story. "One group supporting the event held a banner aloft bearing Voltaire's famous dictum: 'I disapprove of your views, but would fight to the death for your right to express them'." Voltaire didn't say that. It was Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who used it as a summation of Voltaire's views in 'The Friends of Voltaire'. What he actually said was 'I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write'. So there.
Sophie, Belfast, Ireland

Are there really 15 people out there who cannot manage to avoid falling into what I would consider to be a fairly prominent feature which is the only such artwork in a space the size of a football pitch?
Ben Robson, St Ives, Cambridgeshire

So, William Blake is branded a nutter because he claimed to have seen an angel in a tree in Peckham Rye? In the days before sat nav, might he not have mistakenly been in Islington instead?
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales

Mandeep Sanghera might be right when he says "Any opposition whose country is known as a principality should be viewed as a gimme and Andorra are no different." But it won't make him popular in Wales.
Ian

If it's wrong to make an image etc of Muhammad (including naming a teddy Muhammad), why are so many people called Muhammad? My head hurts trying to work this one out. Can anyone assist in making me more culturally aware?
John Smith, London

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