It is the issue on which everyone has an opinion. Usually the same opinion. Unless you're a Spurs fan like me
Read full article...Admittedly, you need to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate the London night bus. An evening's worth of alcohol usually does the trick
I was delighted when London won the Olympics. Damn the naysayers. But my faith has been tested since then
From the diffident director to the determined actor, Richard Godwin talks to the newcomers up for one of our film awards next week
It's a quality that's not easy to define but you know it when you meet it. And it's the new driving force in town
The BBC's adaptation of Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks's First World War romance is, by common consensus, the best cheese-on-toast accompaniment since Downton Abbey
The jazz dance is back and stealing scenes in everything from The Artist to the latest David Hockney exhibition. Richard Godwin puts his best foot forward
Soweto Kinch's latest musical project required him to look closely at the seven deadly sins. Now he's seeing them everywhere, he tells Richard Godwin
Fans of the cult film night can now dine out on site at a pop-up restaurant as well as dress in the spirit of a movie
What do you get the lady who has it all? A mink coat? A solid gold house? An African country? If you're Michael Gove, the lady is the Queen and it's her diamond jubilee, naturally you want "something tangible to commemorate this momentous occasion". He wrote to his Cabinet colleague Jeremy Hunt to say so. However, whether his suggestion of a luxury yacht is an appropriate expense as the country sinks into recession is another matter.
David Hockney's vast exhibition of new works is a welcome explosion of uncynical creativity. And it's just the beginning, he tells Richard Godwin
Somehow, over the past ten years, geeks became gods. From politics to popular culture, it has been a time of thick-rimmed specs, scrawny physiques and, when it comes to chivalry, lots of, y'know… meh. Richard Godwin is holding out for a hero
When David Cameron first declared his love for The Killers, it seemed like evidence of the common touch.
The first week back at work in the New Year is always a process of recollection. We rediscover just what it is that we do when we are not playing Scrabble, mainlining Campari or wondering whether Absolutely Fabulous was ever funny. We re-familiarise ourselves with the snooze button; we relearn the art of ironing and breakfasting simultaneously.
Father Christmas is not the only one privy to some of our national treasures' most secret wishes. Richard Godwin reveals the results of our eavesdropping
Seven years ago, I did a silly thing. I had done a little extra work for my regular employer and was owed a modest freelancer's sum. "How would you like us to pay you?" breezed the secretary. "We can add it on to your regular payslip - or you can do self-assessment."
YouTube videos are changing the way we see the world; from bringing down governments to making celebrities out of hopeless romantics, no subject is too political or too prosaic to attract attention on a global scale
It's the end of an era. Last Saturday, the final bendy bus in London transformed itself into a double-decker, like some municipal Decepticon
With more Londoners than ever addicted to coffee, we challenged Richard Godwin to go for a week without his usual caffeine hit. He cracked after five hours
Apparently a guy from Glasgow has been awarded the Turner Prize. Martin Boyce is a worthy winner, according to the critics. His installation is, I hear, a melancholy meditation on modernist purity
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