Will Self

15.05.09

Black cab drivers shamelessly stealing each other's fares and minicabs ramming their rivals - the recession has brought mounting tension to London's...
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06.05.09

An American travel website is warning travellers off our fair city on the grounds that it's "dirty" and the cuisine isn't all it might be

29.04.09

Face it: you aren't going to die of swine flu. Getting all wound up about the looming pandemic is just a way of ignoring the plague of debt sweeping...
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22.04.09

Plans are afoot to make the default speed on A roads 50mph instead of 60, while more 20mph zones will be introduced in residential areas and in the...
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21.04.09

JG Ballard – Jim to those who knew him – is considered by many to be the most significant author of the past 50 years. Here, one admirer pays tribute...
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15.04.09

I never took to Tony Blair at all. I was never impressed by his populist touch, nor was I sure that the benefits of a Labour government that...
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09.04.09

Will Self reports on the third day of ­protests by British Tamils inflamed by the military actions of a Sri Lankan government intent on extirpating...
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08.04.09

I’ve always known when a TV series is starting to bite with me — I begin consciously organising my life around its scheduling

01.04.09

One thing that seems to have been lost in the media blizzard surrounding the Home Secretary's dodgy expenses claims is the nature of the...
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25.03.09

If Google's aim is to be master of all it surveys, then the launch of Google Street View in the UK brings it that much closer to surveying, well,...
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18.03.09

Sir Paul Stephenson has chosen a good issue with which to make his mark on London’s policing, saying that he wants his officers patrolling on foot and...
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11.03.09

The splendidly named Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas is at it again, using her New West End Company — basically a shopkeepers' association — to campaign for...
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04.03.09

I was once on a panel that gave a prestigious award to Julie Myerson for her first novel, Sleepwalking, an elegantly overwrought account of an abused...
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25.02.09

Now that Binyam Mohamed has returned to the UK from detention at Guantanamo Bay, there must be quite a few Whitehall mandarins — not to mention some...
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18.02.09

Ken Stott may be starring in A View from the Bridge at the Duke of York’s but it’s what he can hear in the auditorium that’s bothering him

13.02.09

According to a leaked minute, Boris Johnson uttered the most commonly employed fricative expletive no fewer than 10 times during a recent phone...
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13.02.09

Darwin's bicentennial is taking on the character of a national festival of scientific progress, with yea-sayer after hagiographer dominating print and...
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11.02.09

The tragic death of baby Jadon Smith after being attacked by family pets should be taken to heart by all dog owners

04.02.09

Mad Men, the beautifully styled take on Madison Avenue admen in the early Sixties, returns to Brit screens next week

30.01.09

Despite news this week that kebabs can contain your entire day’s calorie count, one Londoner writes of his addiction to them