"Pretty soon I learned some lingerie truths: older women only buy black pants and the "returns" counter was a perfect place to experience the ­British middle class attempting to get in touch with their anger."

Would you like to read an excellently sullen interview with a man who has designed a building that gets too hot and sets little bits of London on fire every day? You would? Excellent. Let us jump right in. The architect of the Walkie Talkie building in London has admitted that he predicted it might reflect hot sun rays to the street below but "didn't realise it was going to be…