Guy Ritchie’s action-packed reinvention of the great Victorian detective is one of the finest movies of the year, with Robert Downey Jnr leaving an indelible mark as Holmes and Jude Law making the perfect foil as Dr Watson ... more
Following the supposed hoax that a boy was carried away by a weather balloon, we take a look at five other hoaxes that have fooled people everywhere... more
In his ultra-secret VIP rooms, stars run wild - the naughtier they are, the happier he is. No wonder Patrice Gouty is the lord of misrule at Raffles... more
If only Derek Draper had followed his own advice. Two weeks ago I attended the launch of his new book, Life Support: A Survival Guide for the Modern Soul... more
As the spotlight shifts from Beijing to London’s preparations for 2012, one writer reveals how the problems facing today’s organisers mirror those that plagued Britain’s first Olympiad in 1908.... more
An account of a gruesome Victorian murder which sparked our obsession with detective novels has won the world's most lucrative non-fiction book prize... more
Charles Dickens, William Pitt and Arthur Conan Doyle were all regulars at The Globe, but now the north London pub is more likely to be visited by fans on the way to Wembley.... more
The First World War contains few stories more poignant than that told in the free, moving exhibition My Boy Jack, about the death of Rudyard Kipling's son.... more
They were thought of as Hollywood’s golden couple, the British pair who seemed to have the happiest of marriages. And no one is rejoicing that Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have come to the end of the road
Ink is in their blood - and Guinness, of course. Evgenia Citkowitz and Ivana Lowell, daughters of the novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood, have written books which come out this spring
Morning:
14°c
