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YouTube mission to final frontier

13.10.11
London school children are to take part in a YouTube contest to send their science projects into space... more

Dale Farm activist is Cambridge don

27.09.11
One of the supporters of the Dale Farm travellers is a Cambridge don who works with Stephen Hawking... more

The man who rules the world

19.05.11
From Obama to No 10, everyone wants to be friends with the boss of $171bn internet giant Google. We find out why...... more

Dr Who versus Sherlock Holmes for Bafta

26.04.11
Who's against Holmes for Bafta... and Watson is up for award too as Matt Smith takes on Benedict Cumberbatch... more

Spare us more details of your love life, Cherie

18.03.11
We all know what uxoriousness means: a man's excessive devotion to his wife. But what is the female equivalent?... more

The stars Peter Stringfellow will never forget

01.02.11
From meeting the Queen to hiring the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, Peter Stringfellow is never short of great anecdotes. But it is Stephen Hawking's visit to his famous club that he remembers most fondly... more

Don’t sell the green miracle of our parks

24.11.10
On a recent week night, having a little time to spare before a concert, I decided to walk from my office in Kensington to the Southbank Centre, a distance of around three-and-a-half miles... more

Top academy bans disabled girl as health and safety risk

19.11.10
Disabled girl aged 11 has been rejected by one of London's top academies because she 'takes up too much space' in her wheelchair... more

Stephen Hawking is a great mind but not a master of debate

03.09.10
Ever since publication of his Brief History of Time in 1988, Professor Stephen Hawking has been a brilliant purveyor of hyperbolic sound-bites... more

Vicar rejects Stephen Hawking's God theory

02.09.10
The vicar of one of London's most famous churches criticises Professor Stephen Hawking for failing to answer “the big questions” about God... more

Saatchi’s Young British Artists set to be an auction Sensation

08.06.10
Three works from the groundbreaking Sensation exhibition 13 years ago are to be sold at auction with prices of up to £1 million... more

Facebook fans want to make Brian Blessed voice of satnav

31.03.10
Bellowing voice of Brian Blessed may not be the most soothing to some motorists but the actor’s deep tones could soon be on satnav after a Facebook campaign... more

Back in the moral maze of daring to bare

02.10.09
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... more

Stephen Hawking receives US honour

13.08.09
Physicist Stephen Hawking was among a select band of extraordinary 'agents of change' who received America's highest civilian honour... more

Thanks, Debbie Purdy, now we all have freedom to choose

04.08.09
The husband of a fellow MS sufferer explains why Debbie Purdy’s Law Lords victory is so welcome... more

Manic Street Preachers pay tribute

01.06.09
Manic Street Preachers are used to making risky artistic statements and continued that abstruse approach at the Roundhouse.... more

Breathe deeply - then reach for the drugs

01.06.09
HAH! Take that, hippies!" Such will have been the reaction of many to the news of a Swedish study seeming to refute the claims of "natural childbirth" advocates that breathing alone can control pain.... more

Hawking ‘very ill in hospital’

20.04.09
Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most famous scientists, is “very ill” in hospital, Cambridge University said... more

The hard truths about our school system that ministers won't admit

08.04.09
The uproar over whether or not Sats should be scrapped is just a distraction from the real problems in education, argues a top head... more

Quirky art of understatement from Mirza and Munnery

05.02.09
While Shazia Mirza covers well-trodden terrain, Simon Munnery is a scruffy clown that revels in obscurity.... more

Gervais and Dawkins' alternative Christmas

19.12.08
What next, Stephen Hawking at Jongleurs? Surprise guest Ricky Gervais got a warm welcome but writer Richard Dawkins was the real star. ... more

Comment: It didn’t take a genius to stop the rot a year ago

24.11.08
Comment: Inept management at Citigroup was today rewarded by the US government... more

The Tel-tale signs that desperate Tottenham are living in the past

06.10.08
Studying the back pages yesterday, the question that first teased away at the back of the mind and then screeched in disbelief at the front concerned time travel.... more

Different role for Leonardo DiCaprio in 11th Hour

06.06.08
Leonardo DiCaprio gives us an insight into why he chose to make The 11th Hour and what the future holds for his acting career now that he has unleashed another talent. ... more

Hell is first great work of the 21st century

06.06.08
The Chapman Brothers have done it again – their new Hell is even better than the first, says Brian Sewell.... more

DiCaprio does climate change

20.03.08
Doom-laden documentary, The 11th Hour, is not exciting stuff - just a bit second-hand and depressing.... more

Chefs to take lid off food industry horrors

21.11.07
Channel 4 have announced a season of new programmes spearheaded by a campaign to shake up the British food industry.... more

Hollywood's diamond geezer

18.01.07
From a lead role in the hard-hitting Blood Diamond to his enthusiasm for green issues, former wild boy Leonardo diCaprio is growing up. ... more

Ricky's comedy doesn't stand up

09.01.07
Too much lacklustre material makes this stand-up show from Ricky Gervais more emperor's new clothes than King of Comedy, says Brian Donaldson. ... more


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