Monaco is a place most closely associated with luxury and secrecy - which makes it a curious choice of name for the Royal Bank of Scotland’s first attempt to unwind its commercial loan portfolio... more
The ensuing chaos in Disconnect doesn’t quite ring true, although the dynamics of the telephonic trio as they call, bond and bicker are compelling.... more
Just because this is set at the time of the Restoration, don’t be fooled into thinking that it’ll be a decorous costume drama stuffed with pretty people in pearls... more
In an interview marking the Standard’s Film Awards, Channel 4 film and drama boss Tessa Ross talks about the challenges ahead and the likely merger of 4 and Five ... more
After the past 12 months of highs and lows in the capital, Nick Curtis sorts out the London personalities with plenty to smile about from those who have gone into freefall... more
The wife of a City financier who threw himself under a train as the credit crunch worsened has told how he talked about killing himself days earlier... more
The hash Newsnight made of covering the effects of the recession in suburbia shows more tellingly than the Ross affair the depth of the trouble the BBC is in... more
I am a monarchist for a very simple reason. There has to be a head of state and I don't want that person also to be the leader of the government.... more
A teenage rugby star sleepwalked to his death through a London hotel window 50ft above the ground after a late-night drinking session, an inquest heard... more
Jeff Baron’s Visiting Mr Green, deals with racial and sexual intolerance in America when a handsome young Harvard graduate suffers sexual loneliness in gay-friendly New York.... more
Clean-cut Canadian Charles Ross mentions mid-gig that he has done his condensed version of the original Star Wars trilogy more than 1,000 times and it shows. In a good and bad way.... 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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