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Our writers are allowed to pick a pocket or two

13.11.09
You can lay many faults at the door of Sir Andrew Motion but plagiarism is not among them... more

Nikolai Valuev proves to be more gentle giant than ‘Beast from the East’

05.11.09
It would be a huge mistake for Haye to underestimate the boxing brains of the softly-spoken, well-read Russian... more

Back in the moral maze of daring to bare

02.10.09
Here we go again. The very week a nude photograph of actress Brooke Shields aged 10 has been removed from a Tate Modern exhibition, on police advice, we have Anna Friel appearing naked on the West End stage... more

A spin too far for the Statesman

24.03.09
Now I know that the sight of Alastair Campbell is enough to put some people off their breakfast but it's quite something that his presence for a mere week at the New Statesman should unleash such a rip-roaring feud.... more

Here’s the Queen’s church, here’s the steeple ...

13.01.09
... and inside the newly renovated St Martin-in-the-Fields there’s still room for all the homeless people...... more

Dave beats Gordon to Barack's book club

11.11.08
How will Barack Obama bond with Gordon Brown and David Cameron when it comes to literary tastes? ... more

Landesman's crazy saga is the Eighties in a nutshell

14.10.08
One of the enduring images of Cosmo Landesman's new memoir Starstruck: Fame, Failure, My Family and Me, is of his wife Julie Burchill, fuelled by alcohol and cocaine, bashing out copy on a typewriter. Landesman would dutifully lay out line after line of white powder until she had lift-off. "Then there would be an outburst of furious tapping," he notes. "I would look over and see her hunched over the keyboard typing with one finger just one crazy, demonic finger hopping up and down, speeding right and left across the keyboard with a frenzied life of its own." ... more

Take shelter at the Tate ... but beware of the massive spider

13.10.08
London is under attack and Tate Modern is the place to turn for safety... more

Why a dour Scot feels at home with a gloomy Pole

23.09.08
Things must be desperate if Gordon Brown is invoking the name of Joseph Conrad... more

Never write off the pulling power of a man of letters

01.07.08
John Fowles continues to cause a stir from beyond the grave. It emerges that the man who gave us a novel with an alternative ending was leading a double life until his death... more

Passionate Friends is A cut above Carrie and co

13.06.08
Adapted from an HG Wells novel, The Passionate Friends looks gorgeous and has a feverishly modern intensity.... more

Passionate Friends is A cut above Carrie and co

13.06.08
Adapted from an HG Wells novel, The Passionate Friends looks gorgeous and has a feverishly modern intensity, says Liz Hoggard.... more

The Passionate Friends is a triumph

05.06.08
Beautifully structured by David Lean throughout, The Passionate Friends is set in Switzerland and finely shot by Guy Green.... more

I'll forgive the messy morals if I can have great writing

08.04.08
So now we know. The new authorised biography of VS Naipaul reveals the Nobel laureate is a monster of meanness and paranoia who enjoyed whoremongering, beating up his mistress and verbally abusing his wife... more

Welcome to the Pleasure Dome

29.08.07
With the Rolling Stones and Prince, the O2 has become London's most exciting new venue. Find out what's coming up at the former Dome here.... more

London's oldest restaurant

28.09.06
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Aliens living in London

13.09.06
Despite his limited palette and deliberately banal subject matter, photographer Emil Otto Hoppé can and does manage to extract drama from the mundane, says Nina Caplan.... more

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