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Secret deal hatched by News of the World to hush up details of phone-tapping was sealed in a tiny room at the Royal Courts of Justice
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Johnny Depp has become, in his young middle age, like a star of the movies’ golden period
Public Enemies
Music
this was a triumph of eye-popping production and exhausting choreography
Madonna
Theatre
If his smug stage persona is tricky to warm to, his skill, and the snappiness of Andy Nyman’s direction, are spot-on
Derren Brown
If you are feeling totally fed up with your lot at the moment with the economic squeeze - go see this film
I thought this was an excellent, powerful production. The staging and acting were superb, it is well worth going to see
Absolutely AMAZING show that went like a train for three hours solid and didn't waiver once!
London,
09.07.09
As baggage restrictions on budget airlines are so mean, it’s crucial to choose your holiday reading wisely. Here are some books that truly deserve to...
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09.07.09
You could be in a hotel anywhere in the world, in Brussels or Boston, instead of London at the Aubrey restaurant.
02.07.09
The main menu at gastropub The Compass is short and purposeful, emphasising gamey British produce.
25.06.09
The censors can’t agree on Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest atrocity, in which he impersonates a gay Austrian fashion pundit
25.06.09
Gravetye Manor is one of the best country restaurants within tolerable distance of London to visit on a fine day.
19.06.09
Harold Bloom derided John Updike as "a minor novelist with a major style". Lorrie Moore once called him "arguably our greatest writer without a single...
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18.06.09
Playing a walk-on role in Sir Terence Conran's dream world at the Boundary Rooftop is such a treat. Worth paying up for.
11.06.09
Keelung goes high on to the list of places David Sexton would recommend to a friend, spending his or her own money.
05.06.09
We all construct the places we love, as well as respond to them. I spend as much time as I can in a rural part of France and the reasons I love it so...
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04.06.09
Two old hands have gone back to the beginning with a modest restaurant and takeaway called More.
01.06.09
A new book states that ferocious marketing is distorting our natural human impulses. David Sexton finds the argument convincing
29.05.09
Three years ago, the Iggulden brothers made a decisive intervention in British publishing. They came up with The Dangerous Book for Boys, a...
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28.05.09
Eastside Inn (strange New Yorky name) has just opened on the site that used to house the rough-and-tumble wine bar Vic Naylor's.
21.05.09
The Kensington Wine Rooms re-invents the wine bar just about ideally, according to David Sexton.
18.05.09
If you have a toddler, you have no choice. You’re going to be watching more Waybuloo than anything else. Forget The Wire
14.05.09
The Drapers Arms looks like it's going straight back to being the joy of the neighbourhood.
13.05.09
Last week, the latest RAJAR audience research figures revealed that while radio listening altogether is at an all-time high of 45.8 million adults...
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08.05.09
The demise of the South Bank Show and the retreat of 69-year-old Melvyn Bragg from ITV are being treated in some quarters as some kind of cultural...
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01.05.09
After considerable dithering and havering, Carol Ann Duffy has agreed to take on the position of Poet Laureate
30.04.09
Anocturne is a piece of music inspired by, or evocative of, the night. Although the term was first used for short piano sketches by the Irish composer...
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