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It's a crime not to honour our thriller writers

06.11.09
Why does discrimination against crime writing still exist?... more

Darling, I’m not name-dropping I’m networking

16.10.09
Never mind the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Nicky Haslam's forthcoming memoirs, Redeeming Features, has set a whole new benchmark for the small world phenomenon... more

My relief that the gilt has worn off the presidency

24.09.09
As Barack Obama hosts the G20, a seasoned political writer calls for realistic expectations of the rock star president... more

Obama: 'I was black before the election'

22.09.09
Barack Obama mixed politics and humour and joked about racism issues surrounding his presidency as he made his debut appearance on a late-night US TV chat show... more

WORLD: US Senator Teddy Kennedy dies, aged 77

26.08.09
Edward Kennedy, head of America’s most famous political dynasty ever since the assassination of his two brothers, dies at the age of 77 after suffering a brain tumour... more

WORLD: Thousands join Kennedy clan to celebrate life of Eunice

14.08.09
Thousands of mourners joined family members at a public wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver ... more

India's 'Queen Mother' and friend of the Kennedys dies aged 90

29.07.09
One of the last remaining links to the romantic era of the Raj has died... more

Mood captured in Un Ballo in Maschera

22.07.09
Martin Lloyd‑Evans's OHP production of Un Ballo in Maschera catches some of the opera's hallucinatory intensity. ... more

Stephanie Flanders: How I juggle a dream job, world financial crisis and motherhood

20.05.09
You can sense that Stephanie Flanders does not suffer fools gladly. Colleagues describe her as imperious and scary. She doesn't like clichés much either. "The phrase 'green shoots' is the bane of my life," she says, wrinkling her nose ... more

Vengeful, brooding and secretive – will Brown become our own Nixon?

15.04.09
The PM’s modus operandi, as revealed by the Damian McBride affair, has troubling parallels with that of Richard Nixon, says one historian ... more

Trudie Styler speaks out to revive the lost art of oratory

03.04.09
The art of oratory is being killed off by computers, according to Trudie Styler... more

Anger at knighthood for ‘brave’ Ted Kennedy

04.03.09
Gordon Brown has sparked a backlash by awarding an honorary knighthood to veteran US senator Ted Kennedy... more

Obama runs into storm of protest over closure of Guantanamo

23.01.09
President Barack Obama’s honeymoon is drawing to a close, less than 48 hours after he took office... more

Urgent tasks in Washington

21.01.09
ONE THING is already apparent in the first day of Barack Obama's administration: the man's stamina is considerable... more

And celebrating: President Obama

20.01.09
Barack Obama's inauguration as forty-fourth president of the United States was inevitably going to be a historic moment - and so it proved... more

Washington goes into lockdown for security nightmare

19.01.09
The biggest security operation in history is being mobilised for Barack Obama's inauguration tomorrow... more

Makeba, anti-apartheid's voice, dies after concert

10.11.08
Miriam Makeba, the South African singing star who was banned from her own country for more than 30 years under apartheid, has died... more

Record vote as Obama and McCain wait to hear fate

04.11.08
America was gripped with Obama-mania as voters went to the polls in record numbers... more

Obama launches his $6m TV advert blitzkrieg

30.10.08
Barack Obama's campaign reached unprecedented intensity with a glossy half-hour commercial followed by a tumultuous rally with Bill Clinton... more

Race for the White House ain’t over

29.10.08
With less than a week until Americans go to the polls, only a last-minute comeback can save John McCain... more

Barack Obama reinvents the dream of Luther King

29.08.08
Barack Obama staked his claim for the White House with a speech immediately hailed as one of the greatest in American political history... more

I'll beat brain cancer to see a new America born, says Kennedy

26.08.08
Senator Edward Kennedy overcame his fight with brain cancer to tell the Democratic Party convention that his brother's dream "lives on" through Barack Obama... more

Did Jackie Kennedy's jealous lover order the assassination of her beloved brother-in-law Bobby?

22.08.08
An explosive play reveals how Aristotle Onassis' obsession with Jackie Kennedy may have driven him to murder her beloved brother-in-law Bobby.... more

Candide is lost in translation

26.06.08
ENO's shiny new staging of Candide, Bernstein's 1956 operetta, has transformed this musical version of Voltaire's novella into a satire about post-war America.... more

Defending National Portrait Gallery

10.06.08
Evening Standard art critic Brian Sewell has questioned the point of the National Portrait Gallery. Here its director Sandy Nairne fights back.... more

Spitzer's girls have to face facts of life

17.03.08
One aspect in particular has bothered me as the Spitzer controversy rages: his daughters, Elyssa, 17, Sarabeth, 15, and Jenna, 13... more

Photos inspire painters at Hayward show

29.08.07
Works by modern artists including Andy Warhol and David Hockney will go on show at the Hayward Gallery next month.... more

Noel: 'I'd be bigger than Elvis'

15.02.07
Oasis front man Noel Gallagher says he would be "bigger than Elvis" if he became a solo artist and hit out at politicians, saying that there was "nothing left to vote for".... more

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