Former London mayor Ken Livingstone -- a keen newt-fancier -- is to get married at the city's zoo, he told a newspaper. Livingstone, ...
Camilla Cavendish of the Times and Richard Brooks of Private Eye are the joint winners of the 2008 Paul Foot award for campaigning ...
The government's respect agenda risks alienating vulnerable youngsters and breaching their human rights, children's rights campaigners warned last night. Among the critics of the plans is the children's commissioner, Al Aynsley Green, who told the Guardian he was "concerned about a knee-jerk ...
France's very own Nick Leeson has been losing its second biggest bank billions of pounds. A trader at Société Générale has lost the bank £3.7bn through secret dealings, explains the Observer's deputy business editor Richard Wachman. • Subscribe free to Newsdesk, via ...
The image of Tony Blair and David Cameron exchanging frilly skirts and pearls is certainly arresting, but the Prime Minister's reference in California last weekend to rampant cross-dressing was, disappointingly, political. For all the comment that his remarks have engendered, however, we ...
Our children recently went to the stage version of Billy Elliot and, like most, loved it. I am sure it is an inspiring tale about aspiration, disadvantage and dancing. But the politics. . . . The miners, striking for a year in ...
A letter to the editor from Frederick Forsyth takes me to task. Enough about Gstaad is its message. OK, but only because it's you, Freddy baby. Instead, I will treat you to a rivet-by-rivet description of tattooed oiks and thick-ankled slappers puking ...
We live in a Post-Modernist age, or so we are told. Within it the legacy of Modernism clings on. The Modern movement in art, of course, based itself on the rejection of many typical 19th-century ideas, values and images. Post-Modernism is pluralistic ...
There is no 'Jewish' vote in Great Britain any more. There used to be, back in the time of Cable Street and Mosley and even up to 20 or so years ago. Jews used to vote, en masse, for Labour. But not ...
It was a glorious morning -- and that was the problem. Turning the corner from Putney High Street into Putney Bridge Road shortly after 8 a.m. on Sunday, the sun was so bright and so low in the autumn sky that you ...
Ken Livingstone on the 10.06 from Paddington to Newton Abbot first class..Copyright: The Times Copyright 2009 ZUMA Press Inc
Ken Livingstone has moved from defeated London mayor to stand-in presenter at LBC, the London speech station, joining the ranks of politicians turned broadcasters. Sara Nathan, former Ofcom member; helped launch Radio 5 Live There's no reason a politician shouldn't host a ...
