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Sound check: Schoolboy ready to rap and roll

12.06.09

Before setting off on the festival circuit, rapper Chipmunk is taking his A-levels.... more

5p shopping bag and chocolate Santa Claus...

08.05.09

A series of eyebrow-raising expenses claims by unnamed MPs are revealed today. They include claims for carrier bags, sweets and kitchen accessories - and even pet food and horse manure... more

Damaging truth on directors’ pay

07.01.09

Institutional shareholders have been warning for months that they would not tolerate massive pay awards in the current climate... more

Amy Winehouse isn't going back to Blake in a hurry

05.01.09

Amy Winehouse gets close to a hunk as she holidays in sunny St Lucia.... more

Is chrome the key to recovery?

18.12.08

Bad times inevitably provoke economic nationalism and this may just help rekindle the American public's love of the automobile... more

Best Christmas concerts in London

12.12.08

Harps, Handel's Messiah and indoor fireworks — here’s our guide to the best of the Christmas concerts.... more

Don’t feel too nostalgic for the Woolies era: life has just moved on

12.12.08

We should not be surprised at the demise of a high street favourite, says one social historian. It lost its place in British culture years ago... more

Mum, they are taking the pith

12.11.08

Victoria Beckham had some explaining to do when she took her youngest son to see Santa Claus - and he wasn't there.... more

Westfield fails to dent West End… for now

05.11.08

How is the new Ł1.6 billion Shepherd’s Bush shopping centre Westfield London faring?... more

A Savage sweetness

21.01.08

In-demand actress Laura Linney reveals why she turned down a blockbuster and talks about having a thing for Santa Claus.... more

Singalong with Springsteen

20.12.07

Bruce Springsteen reunited with his E Street Band for an evening full of fun and singalong crowd participation at the O2.... more

Too nasty for the nursery

30.11.07

The Yuletide exhibition at Dulwich Gallery, usually addressed to children, Age of Enchantment, has fallen under a malicious spell this year.... more

Small-town trial by Romanian television

16.08.07

12.08 East from Bucharest is funny, eccentric and a wonderful testimony to the selectivity and frequent hypocrisy of memory.... more

More than just ginger dreadlocks

05.04.07

Apart from his magnificent ginger dreadlocks, Newton Faulkner's most obvious asset is his prodigious mastery of the guitar.... more

Lizzie hits the spot with her oral history

15.02.07

Character comic Lizzie Roper recounts people's sexual foibles using replayed interviews relayed to her live via an iPod and the result is frankly funny if frequently very filthy.... more

Lips keep a flame for a better world

14.11.06

The Flaming Lips lifted the Hammersmith Apollo crowd to damp-eyed peaks of ecstasy for two hours amid a barrage of day-glo lunacy and Sesame Street psychedelia.... more

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