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Donald Macintyre's Sketch: The cuts were bad, but the jokes that accompanied them were even worse
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Dr Osborne did not say the economy was ‘healing’ but ‘moving out of intensive care’
Hillary Clinton joins the 'selfie' Instagram revolution
Sunday 16 June 2013
As the self-shot snap jumps species from teens and pop moppets to world-leaders-in-waiting, Matthew Bell salutes its unstoppable rise
The power of imagination: Lucas’s $50 cinema ticket becomes reality
Friday 14 June 2013
A day after George Lucas predicted that going to the cinema would soon cost “50 bucks”, Paramount Pictures is offering audiences in five US cities the chance to buy an unprecedented $50 (£32) “mega ticket” to its new blockbuster, the Brad Pitt zombie epic World War Z.
Alexander Fury: After regrets, rehab, reconcilliations and repentance, it's time the fashion world brought John Galliano back into the fold
Sunday 09 June 2013
Wear, what, why, when?
'I didn’t mean it': John Galliano redesigns his reputation two years after intoxicated anti-Semitic rant
Tuesday 04 June 2013
Recovering alcoholic gives first interview since racist outburst
Red House, 2 Elystan Street, London
Saturday 18 May 2013
The American invasion of London continues. It seems only yesterday that Keith McNally opened a simulacrum of his New York brasserie Balthazar, to reviews that found the food pedestrian. The Shake Shack burger franchise will soon explode upon Covent Garden, along with the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co in the Trocadero, Piccadilly, while the hip New York hotelier André Balazs will open a new joint with a fancy grill in Marylebone. Soon you won't be able to move in London for luxuriantly-priced USDA steaks, seafood platters and ingenious deployments of quinoa.
Angelina Jolie's decision to tell the world about her double mastectomy is truly brave and truly inspiring
Tuesday 14 May 2013
'Raising awareness' is usually just an empty celebrity culture cliché, but Jolie's article for The New York Times could make a real difference to women's lives.
A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his Hillbilly Heart
Thursday 18 April 2013
After writing hit song "Achy Breaky Heart," starring in Disney Channel show Hannah Montana and raising a famous daughter, country singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus has found himself at a crossroads.
My life in travel: Liz Earle
Saturday 13 April 2013
'I love Venice at night – you can hear the gondoliers calling across the canals'
Taliban shooting survivor Malala strikes publishing deals 'to tell story of 61m children who can't get education'
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old who survived being shot after standing up to the Taliban, is to tell her story "and the story of 61 million children who can't get education" in a memoir.
Live from BBC Television Centre: one last quiz
Monday 18 March 2013
How much do you know about the soon-to-be-closed TV landmark?
Postcard from... Beirut
Thursday 14 February 2013
While Europe is engulfed by its horse-meat scandal, Lebanon is battling its own food crisis: wood shavings in its beloved zaatar manakeesh.
- 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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