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Debt-based system has hurtled us into global financial disaster

17.04.09

Economics analysis: In January 1971, Richard Nixon recanted years of opposition to budget deficits declaring: "Now, I am a Keynesian." ... 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

Who won what at Standard Film Awards

03.02.09

Irish martyrdom, Indian poverty, American politics - the judges of the Evening Standard British Film Awards faced difficult choices.... more

Forgive the mistakes and relish Hollywood�s love affair with history

23.01.09

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Great battle of wits in Frost/Nixon

22.01.09

Popularity and ratings play a huge part in Frost/Nixon, yet the film itself may not emerge as a box-office champ.... more

50 ways to have fun in 2009

02.01.09

Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough � we bring you the highlights of London�s arts calendar for the coming months. ... more

Blowing cold in the Lords on windpower

26.11.08

Building thousands of turbines to meet Britain's renewable energy commitments by 2020 is likely to be a disaster... more

Tragedy of King George in W.

06.11.08

As Barack Obama sweeps into power, Oliver Stone portrays the outgoing US President in Shakespearean terms in W.... 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

Gripping account of a titanic clash

16.10.08

RON HOWARD'S film is surprisingly gripping. It turns on the incremental power shifts in the set-up and execution of the 1977 TV interview in which David Frost got the disgraced President Richard Nixon to admit he had let the American people down with his criminal conduct in the Watergate affair.... more

Gripping account of clash in Frost/Nixon

16.10.08

Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon is an intelligently written and superlatively acted piece which addresses fame and ambition.... more

Frost/Nixon the movie is festival's power opener

16.10.08

The 52nd London Film Festival opened with the world premiere of a movie that started just round the corner from its showing in Leicester Square... more

Film festival begins with a premiere of Frost

15.10.08

The London Film Festival kicks off with the premiere of Frost/Nixon just yards from where it was originally staged as a play at the Donmar Warehouse... more

Jimmy Carter is Mr Nice Guy

14.08.08

Jimmy Carter is portrayed as a man it is impossible not to like, even if you think he was a weakish one-term commander-in-chief.... more

It's official: guys can wear shorts to work

04.08.08

For women, dressing for summer here is a whole lot easier (and cheaper) than in London. You know that stepping outside will feel like walking into a blast furnace, so you choose pretty light sundresses and then you buy a cardigan to battle the freezing air-conditioning inside... more

The lesbian love affair you WON'T see in Sex and the City

15.05.08

In the movie, she's a man-hungry girl about town. But off screen, Cynthia Nixon is passionately in love with another woman (and she's definitely not interested in Manolo Blahniks)... more

Adams's mystifying but soothing eco-fable

13.08.07

John Adams's new opera, A Flowering Tree, shuns the contemporary politics of Nixon in China and turns to ancient South Indian mythology.... more

Donmar cash boost as West End hit grips America

01.08.07

One of last year's biggest West End hits, the Donmar Warehouse production of Frost/Nixon, has taken Broadway by storm.... more

One man, his guitar, and a lot of fun

24.04.07

Sensitive Seventies troubadour James Taylor was the unlikely source of a lot of big laughs at Hammersmith Apollo, as he made a late bid for a career as a stand-up, or rather sit-down, comedian.... more

Frost heats up Broadway

23.04.07

It was one of last year's top West End draws. Now Frost/Nixon is basking in a triumphant opening on Broadway.... more

The cultural highlights of 2006

29.12.06

From the triumph of Frost/Nixon to pop divas demanding equal opportunities, and a West End song and dance, our critics reflect on 2006.... more

Day in the life of London's smartest cafe

29.11.06

Sir Terry Wogan, Ralph Fiennes and Sir David Frost were among the sightings when Simon Davis spent a day in The Wolseley.... more

Fabulous Fifth from Mahler

27.11.06

Anything placed alongside Mahler's brilliantly crafted Fifth is liable to seem insubstantial, which was certainly the case for the LSO's performance of Fearful Symmetries. ... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 plays

21.11.06

The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more

Frost's finest hour

17.11.06

Frank Langella's extraordinary acting feat as President Nixon in the gripping Frost/Nixon can be truly described as "great", says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

The man who rewrites history

27.10.06

Peter Morgan is Britain's hottest television, film and stage writer. His brilliance is in imagining the private conversations of the power players. Just don't call it docudrama, he says.... more

Never mind the B**bican

19.09.06

Punk rock, the raucous voice of rebellion in the Seventies, is to be celebrated with an exhibition at one of Britain's most august arts institutions.... more

Critic's Choice: Top Five Plays

04.09.06

Nicholas de Jongh picks out five of the best theatrical productions currently onstage in the West End, from the highly entertaining The 39 Steps, to the superb Frost/Nixon.... more

Grandage just can't play it safe

25.08.06

Michael Grandage, director of the Donmar, has scored another hit with Frost/Nixon. But, he says, every new production leaves his playhouse standing on a knife-edge.... more

Nixon's trial by television

22.08.06

Peter Morgan's enthralling play Frost/Nixon follows President Nixon's extraordinary trial by television and offers fascinating insights on the relationship between politics and the media.... more