Far be it from me to trivialise a topic as important and down right terrifying as the world’s gradual descent into uninhabitable, scorched rock. But with the effects of global warming being felt around the world and the nation’s doom-mongering hacks filling out front pages with predictions of a fiery wasteland like they were bloody Nostradamus, it’s hardly surprising that one tends to err on the side of pretending the whole thing isn’t happening.

The third – and final – photographic effort of our Monkey Shoulder whisky design challenge comes from Swedish snapper Bjorn Tagemose. His Sin City-style homage to Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks is bafflingly addictive to look at, because there doesn’t seem that much to it.

It’s the second instalment of our Monkey Shoulder whisky photography challenge and things are getting strange. Stepping up to the lightbox on this occasion is rising star Dirk Rees and he’s gone well weird…

Imagine, if you will, that you’re an artist. And you, the artist, have been given a blank canvas, upon which your creativity can be splashed with all manner of flair and forward-thinking panache. What do you do?

For the last two years, director Spike Lee has been putting the squeeze on Nike to release a Jordan shoe to help raise money for the film institute he is opening at his old university, Morehouse.

I was interviewing the designer Marc Jacobs the other day, and he said, “The sexiest men are those that wear whatever they want and don’t care about fashion.” Seeing as I was done up in my most acceptable fashion-wear at the time, he may have been trying to wind me up, but a sense of humour isn’t most famous American fashion designers’ strong point.

Do you live in Nottingham? Or near Nottingham? Near-ish? And do you like decent clobber?

You do? Splendid. Arena and top designer Stone Island are co-hosting a retrospective of the label’s finest pieces from the last 20 years, at Limeys, one of the leading independent menswear retailers in the country.