For a flavour of Mary-Kay Wilmers’s life, check out her friends. There is her ex-husband, Stephen Frears, the renowned film director; she met him through the playwright Alan Bennett at Oxford. She is “age-old” mates with the novelist Hilary Mantel, ...
Opportunistic politicians should remember the BBC is a public-service, not a state, broadcaster The shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, thinks what's wrong with the Beeb is that there are too few Conservatives running bits of it. Labour's Ben ...
David Cameron is a fan of the Smiths – and the Tories' very own Charming Man has been seeking to woo the north of England away from its historical antipathy to his party. The Thatcher years accelerated the decline of northern conservatism and deepened ...
I left the north, I travelled south (ardent Smiths fans can fill in the rest), at a time when Thatcherite Conservatism was something of a swearword in most of Englands northern territories. So as David Camerons ascent has switched a Tory victory from ...
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Rankin End of the Line, a shocking new documentary, reveals that our oceans are being overfished and we will run out by 2048. You’ll never order sushi the same ...
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Diminutive British fashion powerhouse Daniella Helayel transformed royal consort Kate Middleton and created an army of converts with her Lucky dress. As she ...
The local and European elections leave both main parties vulnerable, but Gordon Brown’s career depends on his response How often have we wished that an election would fall conveniently at a time when we most wish to take out ill-feeling on those in ...
The London Evening Standard, for which I work, has a new Russian owner. There is some poetic justice in this for my generation, whose defining event was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the opening up of the Wild East. Having covered East ...
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