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Even Cilla’s biographer admits that critics were justified in knocking the ‘prurience ‘of Blind Date

In a world of their own

6 December 2014 9:00 am

Cilla Black has become a strange creature during her 50 years in showbiz. When her husband Bobby was in hospital…

Signs that the virtual mob is starting to rule

29 November 2014 9:00 am

Are we heading for a new barbarism? Is this the return of the 18th-century mob? Here are more questions than…

English tea-chests are thrown into Boston harbour, 16 December 1773

Rags, riches and respectability

14 June 2014 8:00 am

In a grand history of the British empire — because that is what this book really is —  you might…

A legend in his own time

24 August 2013 9:00 am

The last time David Peace wrote a novel about football he got his publishers sued for libel, which may help…