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Meryl Streep at this year's Golden Globes: when the Baftas take place tomorrow evening, might we be granted a decent speech or two?

David Lister: You want to thank your mum and dad, but we want to hear a decent acceptance speech

11 February 2012 12:00 AM

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Light in on magic: Knightley and Fassbender in ‘A Dangerous Method’

David Lister: Is this a case of a great but troubled ballet star being wronged? I don't think so

04 February 2012 12:00 AM

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David Hare, left, and Tom Stoppard in Jaipur

David Lister: How can you celebrate great literature while preventing the freedom of expression?

28 January 2012 12:00 AM

The spectre of the most scandalous and depressing episode in recent literary history raised its head this week. Salman Rushdie once again had his safety and his life threatened over his book The Satanic Verses, and was unable to show his face.

Long wait: queues for the National Gallery's Leonardo show

David Lister: Jay-Z might be rethinking his degrading lyrics, but why do women in hip-hop stay silent?

21 January 2012 12:00 AM

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When it all got too much for her: as Katherine Jenkins is overcome with emotion, conductor Anthony Inglis seems to share her pain

David Lister: When will David Cameron make a song and dance about song and dance?

14 January 2012 12:00 AM

The Week in Arts

Sounds of the Seventies: Bradford rock band Smokie are a big hit with the Russian president, Alexander Medvedev

David Lister: Ageing British rock bands never die. They just end up performing in the Kremlin

07 January 2012 12:00 AM

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Outcast: Tracey Emin was demonised for being a Tory

David Lister: There should be room in the arts world for people of all political persuasions

31 December 2011 12:00 AM

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The role or the star? Sofie Grabol who plays Sarah Lund in 'The Killing'

David Lister: So if there was an award for Arts Personality of the Year, who would we honour?

24 December 2011 12:00 AM

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David Lister: In a warren of tunnels under Waterloo station, a revolution in classical music is stirring

17 December 2011 12:00 AM

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Walked out: Alice Oswald is against Aurum funding the TS Eliot prize

David Lister: Biting the hand that feeds you isn't clever – even if you are an award-winning poet

10 December 2011 12:00 AM

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Tate Modern is free while the St Ives, pictured, and Liverpool Tates are not

David Lister: Here's a sacrilegious thought: maybe charging for museum entry would be a good thing

03 December 2011 12:00 AM

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And the killer is: ‘The Mousetrap’, the world’s longest-running show

David Lister: Internet reviewers shoot from the hip – but there's one moral code even they accept

26 November 2011 12:00 AM

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David Lister: Audiences would soar if classical music concerts were more like rock gigs

19 November 2011 12:00 AM

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After hours: the National Gallery could do with evening openings

David Lister: Art galleries should be like cinemas – open to audiences every night of the week

12 November 2011 12:00 AM

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David Lister: A surreal ending to pop's most extraordinary life story

08 November 2011 12:00 AM

This was not a typical, domestic life of a rock star because nothing about Jackson was typical

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