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    Well done HRH! A pre-diamond jubilee surge in royalism means the British royal family is enjoying record popularity. See the breakdown in numbers from 1950’s to present. Photograph: Carl Court/PA Was it all down to Wills and Kate’s wedding? Read our thinkpiece behind the figures here: “My sense is that Buckingham Palace feels pretty comfortable at the moment. The Cambridges are coming on. And the jubilee, barring a catastrophe, will work to their advantage,” said Oxford University historian Dr Frank Prochaska, author of The Republic of Britain. “Don’t forget, they are very clever at adjusting and they have been reasonably successful.”

    Well done HRH! A pre-diamond jubilee surge in royalism means the British royal family is enjoying record popularity. See the breakdown in numbers from 1950’s to present. Photograph: Carl Court/PA

    Was it all down to Wills and Kate’s wedding? Read our thinkpiece behind the figures here:

    “My sense is that Buckingham Palace feels pretty comfortable at the moment. The Cambridges are coming on. And the jubilee, barring a catastrophe, will work to their advantage,” said Oxford University historian Dr Frank Prochaska, author of The Republic of Britain. “Don’t forget, they are very clever at adjusting and they have been reasonably successful.”

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    Salt rocks: a tour of highland Bolivia New eco-lodges in little-visited Bolivia are making the most of wonders from salt flats to multicoloured lakes – all at well over 3,000m. Photographs: Anna Batchelor

    Salt rocks: a tour of highland Bolivia

    New eco-lodges in little-visited Bolivia are making the most of wonders from salt flats to multicoloured lakes – all at well over 3,000m. Photographs: Anna Batchelor

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    It was Richard Littlejohn’s worst nightmare. Not just Cloake’s fruit compote and Scotch pancake – he is surely a bacon roll kind of guy – but 5,000 Guardianistas gathered under one roof at Kings Place in London at the weekend for a festival of reasonableness. The weather was perfect, proving that God, whatever the Bible might suggest, is a centrist. Stephen Moss sums up the Guardian’s first Open Weekend event, where we opened our offices and news organisation up to the public. More details on the events, the speakers - and some ways to catch up on highlights from the weekend.

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    Three Little Pigs advert

    This advert for the Guardian’s open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper’s front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion

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