This week in the podcast that is and isn’t about design, we look back to a halcyon time which may or may not have existed*.

We talk about the triumph of Jeremy Deller’s latest art project, the London Museum of Brands and Lego’s latest nostalgic model of a VW Beetle.

Nostalgia is our topic of the week. Other chocolate-based confectionaries are available. Do they still make Topics**?

Watchmen is our book of the month. We enjoy it as much as you can enjoy a comic that’s about self loathing crime fighters. Pies are then scoffed as they should be.

It didn’t.

** They do.