Well, it's just gesture politics, isn't it, this 50p tax rate? Why are we punishing the wealth-creators? Look at all this wealth they've created, after all!... more
When electronic Kindle book sales started outstripping sales of the hard copies on Amazon.com this year, paperback publishers began quivering with fear... more
As the King James Bible turns 400, a new wave of atheists, rationalists and scientists are rushing to reinterpret and even replace the good book... more
Former BBC newsreader Peter Sissons today reignited the row over ageism at the corporation after condemning the decision to drop David Dimbleby from coverage of the royal wedding ... 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
Video: It was evident from those who packed Southwark Cathedral for a celebration of the life of Sir John Mortimer that the playwright, barrister and creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, was very much loved by all... more
Figures from Radio Joint Audience Research reveal that Radio 3 has broken the two million listener mark and that Radio 4 is reaching more than 10 million people a week ... more
The influential critic Roger Fry set up the Omega Workshops to apply his ideas about art to everyday objects — but the Bloomsbury artists he employed were woeful craftsmen... more
One of Charles Saatchi's fiercest critics now believes his former bête noire deserves a knighthood for bringing the latest international art to London...... more
The demise of the South Bank Show and the retreat of 69-year-old Melvyn Bragg from ITV are being treated in some quarters as some kind of cultural calamity. Almost entirely mistakenly, I think... more
In a new book ex-Special Branch detective RON EVANS tells of his toughest job - protecting Salman Rushdie and the girl he was desperate to get into bed.... more
David Dein chose San Daniele del Friuli as the venue to tell Arsène Wenger he'd been ousted from the Arsenal board - Mark Bolland went to find out why.... more
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