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Drawing on the lives of those we don't see
As the cash-for-honours inquiry winds up with no charges,Illtyd Harrington reveals how a prime minister once offered him a peerage – and explains why he’s still plain ‘Mr’
IT was April 1975. A snowy day. I waited in the central lobby of the ... > more |
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Yes, Prime Minister - IT was April 1975. A snowy day. I waited in the central lobby of the House of Commons to be taken to lunch. My host was Prime Minister Harold ...>more
Peace from the ashes of destruction - IT is Monday morning in the Basque town of Gernika and the market place is bustling. Market day is the... > more
Unlocking the creative side of the artists behind bars - IS art redemptive? Can the very act of picking up a pen or a paintbrush touch something in the soul... > more
Boy George, the prodigy who was toast of Europe - A BUZZ is growing around composer Julian Josephs’ new jazz opera, Bridgetower. And in a matter... > more
Storey for our times - DAVID Storey, the Booker Prize-winning novelist and playwright, who celebrates his 74th birthday next month, was in open... > more
Distant voices - BEFORE 1920 nothing in the Chechen language was written down. All of the country’s proud heritage and its many struggles were sung... > more
The naked and the dead - FIRST impressions always count. So when you see three giant dinosaurs towering above the classical courtyard entrance to the... > more
Take a trip to Africa – in London - FORGET Bollywood – a celebration of all things African kicks off in London on Saturday. > more
The Tiger author who came out for a chat - WHEN Judith Kerr was a child in Berlin in the early 1930s, she was impressed when her theatre critic father was... > more
‘Watch Big Brother to see we’re a lousy lot’ - THE BIG row over Celebrity Big Brother “took the manhole cover off the subterranean dirty currents of British racism”... > more
The fast comedian behind Young Bond - CHARLIE Higson spent formative comic time with Harry Enfield on the appropriately named Merryville Estate in Hackney. > more
Jack sets his politics to a classy jazz riff - JACK Shepherd, star of the top-rated 1990s television detective series Wycliffe, is back in north London indulging the two... > more
Why doubt matters to the relaxed Rabbi - WHEN Lionel Blue told his mother he was going into the ministry, she burst into tears. > more
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A Private Eye view of a cartoonist’s world - THE cartoonist Michael Heath was evacuated from Bloomsbury to Willow Road in Hampstead during... > more
Dream come true for Bloomsbury - THE Brunswick Centre is buzzing. Shoppers throng the array of stores that now occupy its new glass-fronted arcade. > more
Kicking off a great festival of culture - FEW areas of London conjure up the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Bloomsbury – from the museums and colleges... > more
Virginia’s paper round in the park - IT is easy to forget that Virginia Woolf, the writer seen as one of the lynchpins of the Bloomsbury set and a standard-bearer... > more
The changing face of The Brunswick Centre - THE Brunswick Centre has become an iconic example of modernist building design. > more |
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Picasso’s little-known animal period unveiled - PICASSO’S painting of his lover, Dora Maar and her Cat, sold at auction in New York earlier this year for a... > more
Keeping the spirit alive - TWENTY-TWO years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for a crime he has never discussed. > more
Secrets of Prunella's lunchtime monologues - IT is hard to think of Prunella Scales without conjuring up images of Basil’s shrewish wife Sybil in the classic... > more |
