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The BBC is tightening up on bad language but swearing - in public anyway - has increased since the Sex Pistols' 1976 encounter with Bill Grundy on TV

The XXX Factor: A history of swearing on TV

Peter Silverton: The BBC is tightening up on bad language. But does profanity have the power to shock any more?

Tracey Emin: Lady Liberty

She's not about to leave Britain as a tax exile – but she is spreading her wings abroad. Tracey Emin gets personal in a New York hotel bed with David Usborne

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Joss Stone: 'She's a natural gossip, dropping bloke-ish exclamations like 'way-hey!' and 'havin' a laugh!' and swearing with abandon.'

Joss Stone - 'Well, I’m supposed to be a diva bitch'

Guy Adams meets the feisty young star who refuses to kowtow to the suits – or to her fellow celebrities.

Malcolm McClaren: '[In the 1970s], this was a failed, miserable country whose infrastructure was dying by the hour. Industry was collapsing - there was nothing'

Malcolm McLaren: 'I'm most probably a missing link'

The Sex Pistols supremo who helped to revolutionise popular culture in the Seventies wants to be recognised as a serious artist

'Annie, in short, is an agreeable evening on the town.'

First Impressions: Annie Get Your Gun, Imperial Theatre, New York (1946)

A good professional Broadway musical. Annie Get Your Gun has a pleasant score by Irving Berlin and it has Ethel Merman to roll her eyes and to shout down the rafters. The colours are pretty, the dancing is amiable and unaffected, and Broadway by this time is well used to a book which doesn't get anywhere in particular. Annie, in short, is an agreeable evening on the town.

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