Funny, rude and tender
A review of Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys, by Viv Albertine. A funny, rude, tender, and superbly written memoir
Lacking the light touch
Plus: a straightforwardly colourful first staging of Offenbach’s gently satirical Vert-Vert at Garsington
Teen spirit
And to get out of that corner, The Fault in Our Stars paints itself into yet another contrived corner - until it runs out of corners
Wild life
Rift Valley Many of my British tribe fled Kenya around independence in 1963 because they believed there was no future.…
2167: Groupies
The unclued lights are of a kind and are listed together in Chambers 2011. Solvers should highlight two normally clued…
to 2164: Blank crossword
The unclued lights are types of CROSS. Solver were required to indicate clearly the FYLFOT at the centre of the…
Portrait of the week
Home With war engulfing Iraq, Britain set about reopening its embassy in Tehran, closed in 2011. William Hague, the Foreign…
Eva Remembers Her Two Brothers Called James
When she thinks (if she does) of the first James it is of a six-year-old who died when she was…
Churchgoing is good for you
Forget being ‘spiritual but not religious’. It’s much better to be religious but not spiritual
How long can our MPs ignore what’s in their backyard?
If you’ve ever wondered what connection bien-pensant MPs have with their constituents, this might help make it clear
Good luck finding goodies and baddies in Iraq
This time, surely there is no one we can mistake for simple goodies and baddies
The big fat lie about cholesterol
A gigantic scare that lasts for decades because the experts are too embarrassed to back down. Remind you of anything?
