Is Jack Straw under-employed? It seems unlikely: persecuting asylum seekers, curtailing trial by jury and drooling over MI5 ought to be a full-time job. And yet he somehow found the time yesterday to share a platform at Church House in London with the American author Charles Murray, at a debate sponsored by the Sunday Times on "The Growing Threat of the Underclass". Straw is unapologetic. "I deplore many of the views Mr Murray has espoused,"

CrimeIn August, Christopher Foster shot dead his wife and daughter, turned his mansion home into an inferno and then killed himself. Why? Jon Ronson talks to friends and peers of the bankrupt millionaire to try to find outMaesbrook, Shropshire, is a beautiful, well-to-do village on the Welsh borders. The houses are vine-covered Georgian mansions. The cars parked in the driveways are Range Rovers and Porsches. The people of Maesbrook are, by and large, self-made millionaires from Birmingham and Wolverhampton, entrepreneurs who've made it big.

Jonathan Jones on artArtAre there really only seven different types of beauty?Extravagant, transgressive, elemental ... the Cooper Hewitt design museum in New York has taxonomised the indefinable – beauty. Is this wrong-headed scientific precision or the brave tackling of a taboo? So now we know. Humanity’s Keatsian quest for the true meaning of beauty is effectively over, the subject sussed once and for all. It’s fully understood, in the same way particle physics fell into place when the Higgs boson was proven to exist.

Ask Leo & LucyEthical and green livingDo I have to give up bleach to go green?Many of us believe a splash of bleach is a necessary evil. But is it? Lucy Siegle flushes away some of the many misconceptions'I'm willing to go green in almost every other area, but the eco loo cleaners I've tried just don't do the job.' While not the most elegant subject, the bleach/toilet conundrum is a common one.

HTCReviewNew 5.5in smartphone might be bulky, but its super-shiny back and pressure sensitive controls make up for it Once the darling of the smartphone world, HTC has been struggling to gain traction in a market dominated by Samsung and Apple with its solid but bland devices. Now the U11 is here and it’s squeezable (no really), can the former smartphone leader turn it around? The U11 is the new top of the line for HTC, replacing last year’s all-metal HTC 10 with the company’s new shiny metallic glass design.