Painful truth of torture examined - UNDER a national crisis,” says Spencer Tracy in his summary at the end of the 1961 film Judgement at Nuremberg. > more

A historian's vision of the troubles ahead - IF the past informs us about the future, Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm can provide a fascinating glimpse of what...>more

‘She soars, she floats and she is operatic’ - WHEN Gemma Rosefield was five, she had piano lessons. “Don’t waste your money,” said the teacher to her parents. >more

Turning over a second-hand leaf - IT has survived the arrival of congestion charge zone and the internet and the rise of the chain store book outlets. The Amwell Book...>more

The state they’re in, 60 years on - IS the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel a date for celebration, or reflection? Ivor Dembina, the Jewish compere ...>more

The judge who ended up on the ‘most wanted’ list - HE'S an eligible man – and a lucky one. When His Honour Judge Christopher Osgood sadly becomes a widower...>more

It’s life drawing: but not as we’ve come to know it - THE MYSTERY art collector was so annoyed by the lack of basic draughtsmanship in contemporary art he...>more

Stirring songs of Spain, two centuries later- TWO hundred years ago in May, there was a huge uprising in Spain, and England was the destination of a wave of ...>more

The stories sleeping lions can tell - AWARD-winning American novelist Audrey Niffenegger, who travels from her Chicago home to work as a tour guide at ...>more

Chatting round at Sigmund’s - THEY are the kind of guests the ghost of Sigmund Freud would welcome, if he were stalking the corridors of the Hampstead home where ...>more

McCartney’s record goes platinum - LIFE begins at 40. At least it has with a bang for ebullient James Hyman, whose belief in the British art market has given him ...>more

Milein’s window on the world of workmen - THE pictures feature some of the most iconic names in arts and letters of the 20th century – alongside sketches and paintings...>more

Mike Leigh: Happy talk - WATCH Sally Hawkins cy c ling through Holborn to the jovial harrumphs of a brass band, her halcyon clubbing episode at Koko or the ...>more

Artist’s ‘poem’ for a neighbour who told her to paint- Stevas, who is curating the art show Poem for Fanya at Camden Town’s Theatro Technis this week, has a tale to ...>more

Ex-comrades everywhere... - LORD Denis Healey, a former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, was once asked which was the biggest party in the House of Lords. > more

CND: or how Derrick learned to make movies and hate the bomb - WHEN Richard Burton got the call he was busy working on John Osborne’s play Look... > more

Reporting from Iraq: ‘anyone different is a potential target’ - THE Independent’s defence correspondent Kim Sengupta dwells in a house in Highgate when... > more

Calling style-conscious cyclists - BOBBIN Bicycles is the type of business that would have been inconceivable as little as five years ago.>more

Historic take on the birth of Modernism- FROM John Sloan’s first tentative forays into Modernism to the amorphous, paint-splattered symphonies of Jackson ...>more

Timely reminders of a beautiful borough - TEACHING keep fit provided artist John Joseph with more than just a living while he spent his spare time painting.>more

So many changes in such a short time - PROCLAIMED as the “doyenne of columnists”, Katharine Whitehorn has observed and passed comment on many of...>more