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Stephen Robinson

Art of Seduction

Edvard Munch’s The Scream sold for £74m this month. It shows that for the super-rich art collector there’s no such thing as austerity, says Stephen Robinson

21 May 2012 11:39 AM

Is Ken Livingstone's cut a fare deal for London?

As we load ever higher proportions of our disposable income onto our Oyster cards, it is tempting to give an inward cheer for any mayoral candidate who promises actually to cut the most larcenous fares in Europe.

16 April 2012 10:57 AM

Our man in Chongqing: Neil Heywood pictured with painter Geo Ge, was found dead in his hotel room

MI6, a death in China and the very secretive Mayfair company full of spooks

Labelled a ‘convenient rest home’ for spies, Hakluyt had always managed to stay in the shadows - until a top intelligence operator lost his life in murky circumstances. Stephen Robinson reports

30 March 2012 10:49 AM

Ken's friends in the East

On the streets of Tower Hamlets, councillor Peter Golds tends to stick out. For a start, he is a contentedly "out" gay man. In what is now a heavily Asian borough, he is of Jewish origin, and even more unusually, in a neighbourhood where few are proud to be Tory, he is a strident Conservative.

16 February 2012 10:33 AM

Euston calling with HS2

There it sits surrounded by thundering traffic, loathed for five decades since the demolition of the magnificent Euston Arch, London's ugliest railway station bar none, set amid unlovely Somers Town.

11 January 2012 10:41 AM

'Of course I regret it, I need it like a hole in the head, all this s**t'

As a man who for many years was on an IRA assassination list and once had a letter bomb pushed through his front door, Tim Bell, Margaret Thatcher's former adviser for her three election victories, knows what it is like to feel under siege.

08 December 2011 12:37 PM

Conrad Black: Barbara's breakdown, our loyal friends and my revenge

As he prepares for his return to London next spring after serving the remainder of his prison sentence, Baron [Conrad] Black of Crossharbour OC, KCSG, PC has laid himself and his wife bare as he settles scores with those he blames for his downfall.

03 November 2011 01:43 PM

End of the yellow line?

Tom Conti says Westminster council is "criminally irresponsible". Jenny Seagrove laments its latest attack on motorists as "another nail in the coffin of ever decreasing theatre attendance", and a threat to single women who will be forced on to night buses in the early hours.

27 October 2011 11:43 AM

Grand designs prove there is more to Munich

Ticket sales for November's major Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London are to be strictly capped to prevent a recurrence of recent incidents of "gallery rage" caused by overcrowding.

14 September 2011 12:48 PM

How to give money and educate people

This summer's ARK fundraiser, figureheaded by the suave Swiss millionaire Arki Busson, was thought by many to be the most glittering in the charity's nine-year history. In a vast marquee behind Kensington Palace, bankers, brokers and the beau monde, each paying £11,000 a ticket, partied and pledged their millions in a heated celebrity auction. But the real stars of the show were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, she wearing a sequin-encrusted Jenny Packham gown. It was the royal couple's debut appearance after their wedding and a huge coup for the charity, which that night raised a staggering £17.2 million.

26 August 2011 12:40 PM