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A silly question with only three billion answers

14.10.09
What do women want? This question has given a title to countless books, studies, pamphlets and themed fancy dress parties over the years... more

Sporting Miscellanies

16.06.09
Tennis: Ana Ivanovic has revealed her preferred pre-tournament reading... more

Victoire de Castellane - My London

05.06.09
Victoire de Castellane buys her sweets at Fortnum's... more

Wellcome return to Madness & Modernity

17.04.09
You didn't have to be mad to live there but it helped in turn-of-the-century Vienna, where revolutions in art and psychiatry produced extraordinary paintings. ... more

Freud great-grandson to advise Mayor on jobless

17.04.09
A former investment banker is to advise Boris Johnson on getting more people off benefits and into work, it was announced... more

Debt-based system has hurtled us into global financial disaster

17.04.09
Economics analysis: In January 1971, Richard Nixon recanted years of opposition to budget deficits declaring: "Now, I am a Keynesian." ... more

Meet the Freuds

17.04.09
Sir Clement Freud, who died this week, was just one member of a colourful family dynasty that continues to leave its mark on us, as Sebastian Shakespeare reports... more

Minute waltz plays out for radio star and MP Clement Freud

16.04.09
Sir Clement Freud, whose eclectic career as a broadcaster, writer, politician and celebrity chef marked him out as a much-loved British institution, has died at the age of 84... more

Art & design

08.10.08
London has recently underlined its status as the global capital of contemporary art. These are the key players in the world’s most exciting market. ... more

Anyone for café culture?

08.10.08
A new exhibition celebrates the Viennese coffee houses where Mahler, Strauss and Schnitzler would exchange ideas. If only there were a modern London equivalent... more

The 13-year-old burglar Freud asked to pose

03.07.08
A drawing by Lucian Freud of a teenager the artist caught trying to burgle his flat goes on show in London this weekend... more

A crude way to get the message

17.04.08
It is Satan, played by Douglas Henshall, as a Gucci-clad, all-knowing lounge lizard, who has the best lines in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, says Patrick Worthington.... more

Transfixed by the case against Judas

04.04.08
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by promising American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, is a divinely amusing and unconventional comedy which poses hard questions regarding religion.... more

Talents adorn a telling parable

31.03.08
The cast, venue and subject matter of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot make it difficult to fault. You could even rub shoulders with an Oscar-winning actor at the show - literally. ... more

Eloquent but contrived

23.01.08
Although The Vertical Hour is reinforced by superb, emotionally charged performances, Nicholas de Jongh was left surprised by the cursory arguments about the invasion of Iraq.... more

The secret of Monet's style, part II

14.06.07
It has emerged that Claude Monet's famously blurred paintings may have been affected by London's weather... more

Freud painting of friend set to make £5.5m

03.05.07
A portrait by Lucian Freud is expected to set a record for the sale of one of his works.... more

Chapmans bring their weird science to Tate

29.01.07
It looks like a surreal scientific experiment being conducted on household appliances but it is in fact the latest sculpture from the Chapman Brothers.... more

Preachiness overpowers poetry

11.01.07
While much of the new show Paranoia consists of second-hand meditations on the War on Terror, its more oblique works have resonance, says Nick Hackworth.... more

Drama? It's just madness

21.09.06
There are not that many plays that Nicholas de Jongh would cross London to avoid but Terry Johnson's Piano/Forte is one of them.... more

Arch farce needs fizz

14.09.06
Leonor Watling looks both provocative and demure in Unconscious. Alas, nothing else in this arch Spanish farce is half as foxy, or foxing, says Charlotte O'Sullivan.... more

Ghosts in the gallery

05.09.06
Photographer Idris Khan turns the expectation that contemporary art should be original on its head with his highly allusive images.... more

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