Digested week: John Lewis selling vibrators – is nothing safe from All That? | Lucy Mangan

After a week in introvert’s heaven at William Gladstone’s Library, the modern world in all its awfulness floods backWhat’s that? I have a particular glow about me, you say? A profound serenity emanating from every pore? An unprecedentedly content expression replacing my customarily surly mien? Why, thank you, and yes I do indeed. For I have just come back from fulfilling my greatest lifetime ambition: spending a week at Gladstone’s Library. This is, really, just as it sou