Since Russia invaded Ukraine, nearly a dozen oligarch-owned superyachts have been impounded around the world. On Tuesday, Britain finally got in on the act, seizing the £38m, 58-metre Phi, belonging to mobile phone tycoon Vitaly Vasilievich Kochetkov, at London’s Canary Wharf. So what’s it actually like to be aboard these huge floating palaces?

It’s 40 years since the Argentine junta invaded the Falkland Islands and Britain’s first female Prime Minister launched a war to get them back. I often wonder, says Charles Moore in The Spectator, what would have happened “if Margaret Thatcher had been a man”. Nearly all the men of her generation were war veterans, and therefore understandably cautious about heading back into conflict. “As a woman, she felt differently.” She looked at military action “not professionally, but morally”, which made her “unforgiving of aggressors” and “maternally furious” at the wicked Argies who killed “our boys”. She also made a strong connection between Britain’s honour and her own political success. If Britain had lost the Falklands on her watch, that would have been her political end. As she often said: “There’s no second chance for a woman.” So Mrs Thatcher, with a portrait of Nelson hanging in her office, “scarcely went to bed” for the whole 10-week war, generally preferring to sleep – if at all – “in a chair, dressed in her ever-neat clothes”.

The trouble with all those gripping stories about scam artists, says Tobias Carroll in InsideHook, is that there are always victims who end up “losing jobs, money or some combination of the two”. But what about a scam that targeted someone who everyone hates – “like, say, Adolf Hitler”? As Walter Shapiro recounts in his book Hustling Hitler, that’s exactly what Freeman Bernstein managed to do in the 1930s, in a racket you can enjoy “without a shred of guilt”.