Brighton

John Deakin: the perfect anti-hero of the tawdry Soho scene

20 April 2024 9:00 am

The photographer never attempted to show anyone in a good light, making his portraits of Francis Bacon and other Soho habitués look like dress rehearsals for morgue shots

Appearances are deceptive: Trio, by William Boyd, reviewed

10 October 2020 9:00 am

Talbot Kydd, film producer; Anny Viklund, American actress; Elfrida Wing, novelist; these make the trio of the title. Private lives…

How Brighton’s gangs became increasingly radicalised

25 April 2020 9:00 am

Between October 2013 and January 2014, five teenaged boys from Brighton, three of them brothers from a family called Deghayes,…

Cosy, comforting and a bit inconsequential: Here We Are, by Graham Swift, reviewed

29 February 2020 9:00 am

There’s something — isn’t there? — of the literary also-ran about Graham Swift. He was on Granta’s first, influential Best…

Let’s make assisted dying legal for Brightonians

7 May 2016 9:00 am

I am having terrible trouble with my hair at the moment. It is lank, flat and lifeless. There are split…

If the Sats-strike parents get their way only the poorer kids will suffer

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Tuesday’s protest against Key Stage 1 Sats was moronic on so many levels that it’s hard to know where to…

My Brighton’s gone all Brideshead

16 January 2016 9:00 am

My town is overrun with drunken Mileses and Gileses and Violets these days. Cross these oafish students at your peril

Losing my son and the end of my life’s summer

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Hedonism, tragedy and me

First I cursed the Calais migrants — then I thanked them

4 July 2015 9:00 am

The Eurostar train descended gently into the Channel Tunnel, went halfway along it, and then stopped. There it remained for…

From King Arthur to Lord Toby Jug: in praise of the eccentric independent

11 April 2015 9:00 am

In praise of eccentric election candidates

Brighton has become an object lesson in why it is a disaster to vote Green

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Brighton council’s disastrous experiments should serve as a warning to the whole country against voting Green

I’m sick of weak women being praised as ‘strong’

12 April 2014 9:00 am

When I heard that the television pundit and all-round nepot Kelly Osbourne had gone into ‘food rehab’ upon gaining weight,…

Michael Heath's diary: I've fallen among hipsters (and I have the T-shirt to prove it)

18 January 2014 9:00 am

I now live in the hippest part of London, Shoreditch. It must be Tony Blair’s idea of heaven, a multicultural…