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Weekend reading: Budget, Buffy and BBC4

Philip Hammond departs 11 Downing Street

What the 2017 budget means for you

Find out what’s in store with our at-a-glance guide

We’ve looked at the figures to see how Philip Hammond’s budget will affect your finances – whether you’re single, married, with or without children or retired.

2017 budget

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a feminist parable for everyone – including me

Anthony Stewart Head - aka Giles the watcher - looks back

‘Twenty years after we started, I see that our series gave flesh (and horns) to the demons we all face in life: teenage Buffy’s storylines transcended age or gender’

Sarah Michelle Gellar

The myth of Britain’s gifts to India

‘But what about the railways ...?’

Apologists for empire like to claim that the British brought democracy, the rule of law and trains to India. Isn’t it a bit rich to oppress, torture and imprison a people for 200 years, then take credit for benefits that were entirely accidental?

Detail from picture of  Lieutenant-General of the Punjab had tea with 5 Maharajas, two Rajas, and one Nawab on April 2nd 1875

What’s the point of BBC4?

A legacy of changed attitudes to foreign TV

Once the home of Mad Men, The Killing and The Thick of It, the channel quietly turned 15 last week. But with a dearth of new hit shows and a confused identity, will it survive to reach 20?

BBC Four screengrab

Going underground

Inside the world of the mole-catchers

A bitter battle is raging within the mole-catching community over the kindest way to carry out their deadly work

Mole emerging from burrow

Why airlines need more female pilots to take to the skies

Come fly with us

The number of women working as pilots in the UK is shockingly low. We ask five what must be done to encourage more girls to consider flying as a career and how they got their start

Magda Malek, the first Egyptian female pilot to fly EgyptAir’s biggest jet airliner, the Boeing 777-333

What I wish I could tell my boss: ‘Have you ever thought the problem is you?’

A marketing assistant writes to their employer

‘If you’re wondering why so many of your staff have left over the past year, it isn’t because the work is too hard or the wage is too little’

Pointing finger

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Meet the internet warriors

See the new film from Guardian Documentaries

Who are the people that get so angry online? Why do some harass and threaten people, and stretch the freedom of speech to its limits? Director Kyrre Lien meets strongly opinionated individuals from across the world

The Internet Warriors - Guardian Documentaries

Death threats and angry chefs – when restaurant reviews go wrong

The UK’s top critics spill the beans

Eating nice food for a living sounds great, but there are downsides: from being unmasked to finding out, after you’ve published a glowing review, that there were rodents in the kitchen

Broken plate
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