My heart sank this week when I heard that Channel 4's Big Brother is set to be replaced by new docu-soap Notting Hill
Read full article...Coming back home from India, you really notice all the bad tempers, beggars and jobsworths. What do they know of England who only England know? India is the future
According to Ofcom, the British are watching more television than ever — an average, in 2008, of three hours and 45 minutes a day (which is a 3.2 per cent increase on the previous year)
Am I alone in thinking former MI6 head Sir John Scarlett dropped a bombshell this week?
Tiger, behave! The Tiger Woods scandal is a perfect example of Arthur Schopenhauer's dictum about how all truth passes through three stages
This week not even the sophisticated American security services could prevent a couple of polo-playing socialists from gatecrashing a White House dinner
As 2010 draws nearer, the literary world is starting to ask: what were the defining novels of the Noughties?
The Standard is the first paper to report on a stunning new hotel in the New Forest that's taken five years and £30 million to create. So has it been worth the wait?
You can lay many faults at the door of Sir Andrew Motion but plagiarism is not among them
Why does discrimination against crime writing still exist?
First Lynda La Plante attacks novels written by celebrities. "Publishers, stop spending your millions on this tripe," she said at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards earlier this month, singling out Katie Price for special opprobrium
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the postal strike (and I am sure there are rights and wrong on both sides), I've already given up on my post. I don't recall it ever being so inefficient in my lifetime.
Never mind the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Nicky Haslam's forthcoming memoirs, Redeeming Features, has set a whole new benchmark for the small world phenomenon
The Connaught's new makeover has added to its elegant charm, says Sebastian Shakespeare
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history
Tatler may be an ageing grande dame at 300 years old but she is as relevant today as she has always been
Here we go again. The very week a nude photograph of actress Brooke Shields aged 10 has been removed from a Tate Modern exhibition, on police advice, we have Anna Friel appearing naked on the West End stage
I am in mourning for one of my favourite Sixties pop songs, California Dreamin’, by The Mamas and the Papas
It is up to our border controls to stop illegal immigrants coming here in the first place. That's what I pay taxes for
If you are lucky enough to be invited to the GQ Men of the Year Awards - I was - then a word of advice. Make sure your arrival on the red carpet doesn't coincide with that of the beautiful people
Swap your pad in London for one in Paris, New York, Rome, Barcelona… the new way to travel in 2010.
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