The American radio broadcaster who won praise for his poignant tweets from the bedside of his terminally ill mother has disclosed that she died on Monday night.
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I'm almost ashamed to admit it... but I am really enjoying my dissertation
Friday 05 July 2013
It's breathtakingly uncool to admit it - but dissertations shouldn't have to be a massive chore. Shouldn't you, gasp, be interested in yours?
James Lawton: You can rely on Lord David Gower to stir the Australians into an Ashes fervour
Wednesday 05 June 2013
He has a part to play for a company with an interest in raising the hype
'Ow 'Liza and the BBC Proms is doing 'My Fair Lady'?
Thursday 12 July 2012
Eliza Doolittle will screech in Cockney and sing posh as the quintessential London musical "My Fair Lady", a product of the Broadway stage, makes its BBC Proms debut on Saturday in a lavish production that owes a debt to Hollywood.
The New Republic, By Lionel Shriver
Saturday 23 June 2012
More damp squib than explosive device, this novel of journalists and terrorists fizzles out
One Minute With: Laurie Graham, novelist
Saturday 23 June 2012
Where are you now and what can you see?
A class act: Claire Foy on criticism, tumours and embarrassing sex scenes
Saturday 18 February 2012
Her luminous good looks made her the star of Little Dorrit and Upstairs Downstairs. As she prepares to light up our TV screens once again, Claire Foy talks to Gerard Gilbert.
Deborah Ross: Fearless reporting from a pop-up tent
Tuesday 01 November 2011
If you ask me, I am full of admiration for reporters from, in particular, the right-wing press who have "infiltrated" the Occupy London protest at St Paul's Cathedral and have "gone undercover" with absolutely no thought for their own safety even though there was every chance they might be exposed to all kinds of horrors such as "Hanging Out" and "Attending a Mélange of Ad Hoc Meetings" and "Having to Put My Hood Up in the Rain".
Second homes tax break may go
Monday 31 October 2011
Owners of second homes may lose council tax discounts, under plans to be announced by Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, today.
Co-operative deal saves Tribune
Saturday 29 October 2011
A left-wing newspaper which counts George Orwell and Michael Foot among its former staff has been saved from closure.
Can Abramovich talk the talk?
Saturday 29 October 2011
He's made his mark without opening his mouth in public. But that will all change in the witness box next week, reports Tom Peck
The gripes of Roth (or: how MPs moaned about their Parliamentary profiles)
Saturday 29 October 2011
An obscure archive sheds fascinating light on politicians' self-regard
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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