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My solution to compensation? Don't pay it at all

20.07.09
It is a disgrace, no question, that the Government proposes to chisel a few bawbees off the bottom line by reducing the compensation payment to any victim of crime found to have convictions for motoring offences... more

TS Eliot widow exults in his poetry reading

01.07.09
In a rare public appearance, TS Eliot's widow Valerie attended a reading of her husband's poems last night at London University... more

Railways are neither private nor public

01.07.09
Once, we had British Rail. Now we have something that is neither a nationalised rail system nor one that is privately run... more

A poetic masterpiece that must be heard

30.06.09
Language "caught alive" is an intoxicating experience in all poetry - the sound is "the gold in the ore", said Robert Frost - and most particularly so with the poems of TS Eliot... more

London is a poet's playground

22.05.09
From Seamus Heaney's Underground underworld to Andrew Motion's Thames trek, London is a poet's playground. Adam O'Riordan explores the capital's text appeal... more

Nobel winner quits Oxford poetry race over sex claims

12.05.09
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott has quit the race to become Oxford Professor of Poetry after becoming embroiled in a sex smear campaign.... more

Garden is a physic for sad city souls

25.03.09
One of my recent discoveries in London is the Chelsea Physic Garden, founded in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries... more

Forget the laptop and look the world in the face...

03.03.09
Tonight there will be a gala at the National Portrait Gallery and it has made me think of all the faces one sees in London... more

JK’s fairy tales are a load of old Hogwarts

05.12.08
Pages and pages on the special properties of wands made from elderwood? That's not literature, it's fiddling... more

Nobel thoughts swamped in Burial of Thebes

13.10.08
Burial of Thebes' rudimentary direction left the cast to mill aimlessly, with only the most conventional stagecraft to support them.... more

Olympic celebration of arts in the capital

26.09.08
Hundreds of events over the weekend will kick off a four-year Olympic celebration of arts. Here are some not to miss.... more

Shakespeare's Globe stages operatic first

14.07.08
The Globe Theatre will be staging its first full opera this autumn... more

Striking old-fashioned notes

20.09.07
A modern take on Sophocles's Antigone is restrained and overly stylised, the required heat isn't present in this tepid performance.... more

A comedian that's too Irish

16.05.07
Veteran County Tyrone stand-up Kevin McAleer's show Chalk and Cheese will not turn him into the next Ricky Gervais, but its understated absurdism certainly deserves a wider audience.... more

The girl who pulled Rabbit out of her hat

28.11.06
Nina Raine's debut play about young Londoners has won her a coveted Evening Standard theatre award. Here she tells how years of hardship have finally paid off.... more

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