Toshio Suzuki, a long-serving producer at Ghibli, enlisted Goro as director despite his lack of relevant experience: he had trained as an urban landscaper before designing, and then running, the Ghibli Museum. His father publicly criticised the decision, which prompted Goro to retaliate on his blog: "For me, Hayao Miyazaki gets zero marks as a father but full marks as a director of animated films," he wrote. Its hard to imagine the films opening sequence, in which an unhappy young prince murders his father, did much to smooth things.

Djokovic defeated Juan Martin del Potro from Argentina on Sunday in the finals of the Shanghai Rolex Masters. In March, he already faced del Potro at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, to whom he lost.

David Laws has insisted that, despite his free market views, he is not a Tory at heart. But if he had defected a few years ago, I think he could safely have come out by now.David Laws's resignation caps a bad week for the coalition and David Cameron in particular.

"How many people have lived in a listed building?" asked Escape to the Country presenter Jules Hudson at the start of this entertaining talk about restoring old homes. A forest of hands went up.

The battalion was young and inexperienced, and had to fight a ruthless enemy at extremely close quarters and over very difficult terrain. The situation demanded leadership of the highest order, and Carr displayed this in full measure.