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Just call me Big Sam's No2 after my team talk inspired a 4-0 Hammers win

18.10.11
Exclusive: Find out how Olympic rower Mark Hunter helped West Ham to their biggest home League win for six years... more

Praise Jesus, says Pope in first tweet

29.06.11
The Pope has tweeted for the first time - the 84-year-old Pontiff used an iPad to send a message via the official Vatican Twitter account... more

Let’s celebrate the volunteers’ spirit this Christmas

22.12.10
Society is founded on the mutual respect and willing co-operation of good neighbours. They will be the true engineers of the Big Society... more

’Tis the season of goodwill, Lady Gaga-style

17.12.10
Lady Gaga has found a role as the gruesomely beautiful poster girl for the “little monsters” who worship her and there’s no denying her commitment... more

A very British, middle-class sort of a riot

10.12.10
The student protests may have been the worst violence on the streets of London for years but thankfully such events are a rare occurrence... more

Mormon church arsonist allowed to walk free in health trust bungle

20.10.10
Dangerous arsonist who set fire to a Mormon church in Essex during a service was allowed to walk free by a bungling health authority after a judge ordered that he be sectioned... more

My staycation to escape the holiday rat race

26.08.10
If you break routine, you can be on holiday anywhere - in my case, Kent... more

The battle for Christopher Hitchens' soul

20.08.10
Ever since Christopher Hitchens, the famously atheist author, discovered he had cancer, Christians have been praying for his recovery and urging him to find God... more

Jewish anger at museum's crucifixion art show

30.06.10
A row breaks out over whether a Jewish gallery should have mounted an exhibition of pictures of the crucifixion by artists including Tracey Emin... more

Brazilian village takes to the trees to escape flood

25.06.10
Fifty people in north-eastern Brazil survived floods by climbing two 65ft jackfruit trees and clinging on for 18 hours overnight... more

Is Middle America ready to accept the right to be gay?

14.05.10
View from America US attitudes to homosexuality are at last becoming more liberal— even among the military top brass ... more

Cuties, dinosaurs and half an hour to impress your local Tories

24.02.10
Stories about blonde “Cameron cuties” confronting dinosaurs are great fun. But in many cases, the dinosaurs are the ones who voted for the cuties in the first place... more

How can I be more than just friends with females?

08.12.09
They are candid, provocative - and totally at odds with each other. Our resident 'sexperts' offer conflicting advice on Londoners' sexual dilemmas...... more

How Labour has stopped caring what voters think

02.11.09
As my text for the coming week in politics, I pray for an outburst by No 10 enforcer Malcolm Tucker, from the wonderful new series of The Thick of It... more

Pop Life sells its soul for the big bucks

01.10.09
Once they were going to call it Sold Out; they could have called it Cashing In; but they settled in the end for the upbeat but neutral title Pop Life. ... more

Soap opera science in Creation

25.09.09
Darwin's life was eventful enough without the added clichés that Creation director Jon Amiel couldn't resist in the retelling of a fascinating story.... more

Blair: Cherie was the reason I became a Catholic

28.08.09
Tony Blair has spoken in detail for the first time about his conversion to Catholicism — and revealed his wife was the driver behind the switch... more

Singing sensation Susan Boyle has a makeover

24.04.09
Britain's Got talent contestant Susan Boyle has defied the judges' warnings not to have a makeover.... more

Girls Aloud's Sarah makes debut in BBC banking film

22.04.09
The BBC tackles the murky world of banking and sub-prime mortgages in a new film with a cast including Dominic Cooper, Aidan Gillen, Rosamund Pike and Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding... more

Tolerance takes a beating from Jan Fabre

16.04.09
Belgium-based theatre-maker Jan Fabre pushes at what used to be called decency, with a kind of extreme burlesque that mocks our rampant materialism.... more

Vicar removes 'scary' cross from his church

06.01.09
A vicar ordered the removal of a sculpture of Jesus Christ being crucified from the front of his church after branding it "unsuitable" and "a horrifying depiction of pain and suffering"... more

Priest and nuns ‘in Wild West punch-up over restaurant’

03.11.08
An Italian priest and two nuns are said to have beaten up a restaurant boss in a property dispute... more

Cowell ‘falls out’ with Waterman over X Factor joke

27.10.08
Pete Waterman has accused Simon Cowell of having no sense of humour after they fell out over a spoof TV show.... more

Byzantium show guards secret of the 'Holy Grail'

21.10.08
Priceless artefacts spanning 11 centuries will go on display in the first major British exhibition on the Byzantine Empire for 50 years... more

Lip service: Melanie Griffith's trout pout bigger than ever

11.07.08
The actress' 'trout pout' looked almost fit to burst as she arrived at a the New York launch of her husband Antonio Banderas's new fragrance, Blue Seduction for Women.... more

What is it about this Jesus fellow?

09.08.07
Bigger Than Jesus, Rick Miller's one-man play, subtitled 2,000 Years of Selling the Big Guy!, examines why Jesus of Nazareth continues to inspire both devout worship and appalling violence.... more

Gibson epic smashes box office record

09.01.07
Mel Gibson's new movie Apocalypto has claimed the box-office record for the biggest opening weekend for a foreign language film in the UK.... more

Saatchi pulls 'blasphemous' exhibits

16.10.06
Charles Saatchi has pulled two controversial sculptures from his Royal Academy show USA Today which opened this month.... more


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