Ask PhilippaRelationshipsYour husband is breaking promises and not listening to you. You’re hurt and frustrated, and desperate for things to change, but don’t act in haste or rageThe dilemma I am 47, have two primary-school children and a marriage that is in slow decline. From our initial pre-marriage ideals of a kind of Scandinavian shared approach to parenting and marriage it became apparent that, in fact, our underlying approach was that of his parents.

Ronald Reagan This article is more than 7 years oldNancy Reagan buried next to husband after funeral service in CaliforniaThis article is more than 7 years oldFormer first lady who died last week at age 94 was memorialized in service at Ronald Reagan presidential library after procession along state freeway Former first lady Nancy Reagan was buried beside her husband, on a hillside that faces the setting sun, following a funeral service that attracted heavyweights from Hollywood and Washington DC at the Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, California.

ArchaeologyObituaryNeil Faulkner obituaryArchaeologist who explored the histories of a Norfolk village and of TE Lawrence in the Middle East Neil Faulkner, who has died aged 64 of lymphoma, was an archaeologist and writer, editor of Military History Matters and a political activist. He described his pioneering archaeological work the Great Arab Revolt Project (Garp) in southern Jordan and the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (Sharp) in Norfolk as “grounding truth”.

TV reviewTelevisionReviewDon’t expect histrionics from this comedy about the practicalities of love. It’s a sweet, deeply nice take on romance that is extremely watchable I thought I had the measure of Smothered. This romcom is written by Monica Heisey, the Schitt’s Creek and Workin’ Moms writer whose debut novel, Really Good, Actually, was a big hit this year, so I imagined that I knew what this was going to be like.

Home entertainmentMusicThey fuck you up, your mum and dadSinger-songwriter Martha Wainwright's father used to speak to her through his songs, so she decided to return the favour with a song called Bloody Mother Fucking AssholeMartha Wainwright came up with an effective way of dealing with having a singer-songwriter father who substituted looking after his family by writing about them in songs. She proved that those who live by the pen will die by the pen, and wrote a song about him called Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole.

OpinionHillary Clinton This article is more than 7 years old'Nasty woman' is an insult we know all too wellThis article is more than 7 years oldArwa MahdawiClinton can take pride in being Nasty-Woman-in-chief of the United States. There are few of us who haven’t been called the same at some point in our lives 'Nasty woman': Trump attacks Clinton during final debateRead moreLittle girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice but sometimes they grow up and life corrupts them.

Crashed out … Paul Simonon in a Texas scrapyard in 1979. Photograph: Pennie SmithCrashed out … Paul Simonon in a Texas scrapyard in 1979. Photograph: Pennie SmithPhotographyInterview'We had the same brain' – how Pennie Smith turned the Clash into iconsRob WalkerShe photographed the biggest stars. But it was the Clash she clicked with. Pennie Smith relives their first explosive US tour – and reveals how she took ‘rock’s greatest photo’

Edinburgh city guideEdinburgh holidays10 of the best books set in EdinburghEdinburgh has inspired some of Britain's greatest writers, from Sir Walter Scott to Dame Muriel Spark. Malcolm Burgess, publisher of the City-Lit series, selects his favourite reads As featured in our Edinburgh city guide The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961The wry and witty tale of Edinburgh teacher Miss Brodie's prime and fall is an unmissable read. "Now they were in a great square, the Grassmarket, with the Castle, which was in any case everywhere, rearing between a big gap in the houses where the aristocracy used to live.

FranceObituaryAlain BombardOn Christmas Eve 1952, a very shrunken man staggered ashore on a Barbados beach. Alain Bombard, a young French doctor, was 55lbs lighter than he had been on leaving the Canary Islands 62 days earlier. He had sailed in a rubber dinghy named L'Hérétique, and succeeded in living solely off the sea during the trip. Bombard, who has died aged 80, believed that the deaths of so many sailors after taking to lifeboats during the second world war had been unnecessary.

CyclingObituaryEileen Sheridan obituaryCycling champion dubbed the ‘pocket rocket’ whose spectacular feats in the 1950s captured the public imagination Eileen Sheridan, who has died aged 99, was a multiple cycling champion who became a household name in Britain in the late 1940s and early 50s thanks to a series of spectacular record attempts. However, she retired relatively young because she had exhausted the meagre opportunities that the sport offered to women at the time.