Holly Williams
Holly Williams is an arts and features writer for The Independent, The Independent Magazine and The Independent on Sunday.
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Funny business: Meet the women running comedy
04 August 2013 12:00 AM
Think comedy’s a man's world? You must be stuck in the 1980s, says Holly Williams
TV review: I Love My Country - Be patriotic and turn off your set right now
04 August 2013 12:00 AM
With a set like an explosion in a Cath Kidston shop, a quiz on Britain is little short of treason
Heads Up: Downton Abbey Series 4
03 August 2013 06:00 PM
Fresh faces, sex, class and period costume ... it's the 'Abbey' habit
Heads Up: Barking in Essex with Lee Evans
28 July 2013 06:00 PM
A funny thing happened on the way to the limo …
In black-and-white: Photographer Mark Steinmetz sought inspiration from the 1930s to deliver a contemporary depiction of Paris
28 July 2013 12:00 AM
Steinmetz has reverted to the traditions of the French masters of the early 20th century – albeit with a subversive edge – in order to capture the expressive vitality of a city pulsing with life
Heads Up: Channel 4 drama Southcliffe
21 July 2013 12:00 AM
Just make sure you don't mention 'Broadchurch'
Northern lights: Yorkshire is drawing art fans for its astonishing array of sculpture
20 July 2013 12:00 AM
The impact of Henry Moore and other modern artists, collectors and critics can be distinctively felt right across Yorkshire. This year, for the first time, the dots have been more formally joined between these institutions, with the launching of the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle
Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan sells Barclays stake
19 July 2013 09:44 AM
An Abu Dhabi sheikh who helped Barclays avoid a government bailout at the height of the financial crisis has sold his stake in the bank, it has emerged.
355 jobs facing axe at toy chain Modelzone as stores shut
12 July 2013 02:33 PM
Gift vouchers to be honoured but only to half of price
IMF raises UK economic growth forecast to 0.9% but cuts prediction for global growth
09 July 2013 02:55 PM
Boost for George Osborne's deficit-busting plans as it almost entirely reverses the IMF's earlier growth forecast cuts
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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