Years after tales of harassment and abuse began to circulate about Bill Cosby, the US comedian has finally been found guilty of drugging and molesting an acquaintance in 2004 and is likely to face a considerable jail sentence. But for a long time the women who came forward to accuse Cosby were dismissed and ridiculed. This still happens all-too often, despite the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns.

A rethink of values by the National Trust’s new director, Hilary McGrady, may well lead to some of the edgier, urban aspects of Britain’s national heritage gaining prominence. But while it’s right to move away from chocolate box depictions of sleepy bucolic loveliness, let’s not forget that some of the more radical movements down the ages, such as the Diggers and the Levellers, had their roots in the countryside of Constable’s Hay Wain.

When you think of the discovery of DNA, the names Watson and Crick comes to mind. Indeed, on the blue plaque outside The Eagle public house in Cambridge, where the pair announced their discovery, you won’t see any mention of their collaborator Rosalind Franklin, who died 60 years ago at the age of 38. It’s way past time her work was recognised.

This week we also learned that many female doctors suffer compassion fatigue, that German film-maker Leni Riefenstahl was as much fascist as feminist and that, when it comes to their brains, there’s no such thing as an average teenager.

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