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There is nobody like Dame Shirley Porter
One of the chief accusers in the homes-for-votes scandal reveals how events unfolded, writes Illtyd Harrington
AS a child, the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz scared me. Later, when I took the smaller children in my... > more |
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The women who are far from veiled - IF you believe what you read then you probably imagine Arab women are quiet victims of oppressive, hopelessly... > more
Who’s ever heard of Mr Virginia Woolf? - THE only time I met the famous art critic Kenneth Clark (Lord Clark of Civilisation), he told me that for him there were... > more
The twelve days which shook Victor’s world - HUNGARY and Hampstead play a vital role in the life of Victor Sebestyen. It was in Budapest that he was born... > more
The enigma that was Katharine Hepburn - WE were sitting in the Californian sunshine, Spencer Tracy and I, in orange canvas chairs outside a Bel-Air mansion... > more
Send in the clowns – but no elephants - ONCE upon a time there was a circus, which had no performing animals apart from a duck who would quack to the sound... > more
Romeo and Juliet who fled the Nazis in a boat -
MICHAEL Arditti did not set out to write a parable. But his new novel A Sea Change is more than just a love story. > more
A true free spirit of the Middle East - BOMBS over Beirut, bullets across Baghdad: Abdelrahman Munif must be wailing in his grave. > more
Victorian masses and leisure principle - THE consumer society, says Judith Flanders, starts here. With the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was launched, to the... > more
The dutiful daughter of our greatest writer - SHE was the third child of ten, the second daughter of England’s greatest novelist and social campaigner... > more |
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