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A man for all seasons Sir Thomas More brought low by fiction

17.09.09

By traducing Sir Thomas More, Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall, frontrunner for the Man Booker Prize, does history a disservice... more

Eight things to write about a dead Kennedy

02.09.09

Chris Addison lays down the rules for reporting the death of a major American figure... more

Let Londoners be the judges of their beautiful spaces

09.06.09

The defeat of plans to sell off part of Regent’s Park is an overdue kick in the teeth for the planning mafia... more

Horrible Henry VIII on show in British Library

01.05.09

A historical exhibition curated by David Starkey makes the case for the Henry VIII's greatness – but he was a tyrant.... more

Women are just wives at the top table

03.04.09

The camera does not lie. Those photos of the leaders emerging from the G20 summit tell us as much as we need to know about the balance of power between the sexes... more

Just a Mo as Walters signs up for lead in C4 drama

25.03.09

Julie Walters is to play Mo Mowlam in a new one-off drama for Channel 4... more

Boris joins the Highbury set

21.01.09

As the Mayor moves into the blessed N5 postcode, one resident explains its enduring appeal... more

I’ve lost my appetite for chocolate bomb excess

16.01.09

Duped by an £18 set-lunch offer, I tried yet another daftly lavish restaurant this week. The food was pointlessly novel and grotesquely rich, bedecked with improbable foams and mousses, many of them tasting actively nasty... more

Hampton Court hotel and flats get go-ahead

19.12.08

Plans for 66 flats and a hotel near Hampton Court have been given the go-ahead... more

Starkey: Riding events will destroy Greenwich

20.10.08

The royal park at Greenwich will be ruined if Olympics organisers stage the 2012 equestrian competitions there, the historian David Starkey claims... more

Tate saves £5.7 million Rubens for nation with help from friends

08.10.08

Last-minute increases in grant pledges have saved a masterpiece of British heritage for the nation... more

Tate launches appeal to buy £6m Rubens sketch

05.06.08

Historian David Starkey has backed a Tate campaign to buy a £6million oil sketch by the 17th century master Peter Paul Rubens... more

Book now for Book Now

06.11.07

The Book Now Literature Festival sees sleepy Richmond upon Thames whipped into hotbed of bookish desire - featuring Andrew Marr among others.... more

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