Tim Key's ludicrous poems and dishevelled persona have made him the toast of the Edinburgh Fringe, where he's leading a new trend for genre-defying comedy, says Bruce Dessau... more
Wimbledon wilts under the scorching heat with Andy Murray having to take extra precautions with Centre Court temperatures soaring close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit... more
No matter what happens to him off the pitch, Arsenal youngster seems able to play with such instinctive brilliance, match after match, week after week... more
There’s an over-long election limping to its conclusion this week - the Oxford Professor of Poetry - a laureateship but with no daft obligation to write about Kate Middleton or corgis... more
Melvyn Bragg was presented with an Outstanding Achievement award as he prepared to sign off from his long-running ITV programme The South Bank Show... more
When a dancer friend of Andy Warhol's pirouetted out of a window to his death on the sidewalk below, Warhol is reputed to have sighed and said: "Oh God I wish I'd been there to film it"... more
JB Priestley’s 1949 collection of short essays about things that delighted him has been updated by the members of the London Library. From girl bands to Bexhill-on-Sea, here six of them reveal their secret delights...... more
SPORTING events turn us all into instant experts. Cometh the World Cup, cometh our intimate knowledge of "catenaccio" and Cameroonian goalkeepers. Then, when the jamboree folds up, so does our dossier of facile judgments.... more
An optional gratuity of 15 per cent has been added to your bill.” Thirteen words to put a song in your heart, aren't they? They dare you to ask for it to be removed, knowing fine well you won't... more
With its token £5,750-a-year salary and case of wine for your trouble, our Poet Laureateship has long been what the outgoing laureate Andrew Motion has affectionately termed an "honorary joke"... more
As the literary world mourns the sudden death of Pat Kavanagh, a portrait is emerging of a steely operator and a woman who inspired awe and fear in equal measure... more
Kensington Place is certainly popular. David Cameron took his wife there on their first date, it's the media's favourite canteen and the Princess of Wales dined here regularly with Clive James.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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