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The Dispossessed: Mother living in limbo with no job, no benefits and no cash

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:27:02 GMT

Abandoned wife officially doesn�t count until her immigration status is decided

How Whitehall targets have failed London's poor

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:34:51 GMT

When Canary Wharf was being built I stood in Poplar High Street and wondered when the East End would rise in rage at being excluded from the new citadel of wealth by moats and walls and barriers. It has not done so, yet. Perhaps the time is ripe

Let�s eat, drink, shop - and give to others

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:48:44 GMT

While today may seem like a festival of consumerism, the festive season is nonetheless underpinned by the Christmas story.

Universities are set an impossible task

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:53:40 GMT

Lord Mandelson has given universities a difficult task. He wants to cut funding by �135 million.

Making an ass of the law

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:12:57 GMT

The range of construction schemes ripped off demonstrates how builders operate: from the bare-faced cheeky to the downright disgraceful

Lord Sugar conned by dodgy builders in Mayfair deal

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:29:11 GMT

NEW: Sir Alan Sugar was ripped off by dodgy builders in a multimillion pound redevelopment of a fashion market in the heart of London

Jesus and an unholy Union Flag

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:46:42 GMT

Gilbert and George dress Christ in a flag as they explore religion and patriotism in a major new exhibition

Greenbury heads for clash with son over bank bonus

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:57:03 GMT

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Sir Richard Greenbury, the old Marks & Spencer warhorse, next meets his son, Adam, a director of Rothschilds.

Protest over lap dancing club near infants school

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:54:35 GMT

Residents are fighting plans to set up a late-night lap dancing club in a north London suburb

CDs of the week

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:36:58 GMT

Akon's third album drops most of the hip-hop, you can almost smell the dope in Neil Young's 1968 concert and David Byrne is unfussy.

'Like your ringtone' - Karen Matthew's only comment after police found her daughter

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:36:19 GMT

Shannon Matthew's mother only comment to police after being told her missing daughter had been found was to remark on the mobile ringtone of one of the police officers

Good old days in Wink the Other Eye

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Wink the Other Eye blinks and misses its chance; with a tedious, rambling narrative and not a flying trapeze artist or escapologist in sight.

Boys from broken homes join gangs to find an alternative family

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:13:01 GMT

Children turn to gangs to fill the gap left by poor relationships with their own families, a report said

Ian McEwan's long-lost brother tells the story of how he was given away at birth

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:57:38 GMT

It could be an Ian McEwan novel: an only child given away at birth tracks down his secret family and discovers he has a famous brother. The twist? It’s true ...and the brother IS Ian McEwan. Here,they tell their extraordinary story

Watch your step with big business, Gordon

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:48:13 GMT

Prepare for another Government U-turn. Having tried various ruses to boost revenue, Gordon Brown has been forced to think again

Shaw's war of ideas is still sallying forth

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Major Barbara, a great, ironic comedy by Bernard Shaw, speaks to us with even more chilling urgency than it did at its 1905 premiere.

The National's treasure

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:33:13 GMT

Simon Russell Beale, the average-looking actor with an above average amount of talent, talks to Claire Allfree about getting to the emotional core of the characters he plays.

'Fruit for lunch and the love of a young woman': Bruce Forsyth's recipe for a long life as he turns 80

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:27:39 GMT

In his eight decades in showbusiness, he has won the nation's heart with his extraordinary energy and charisma. And both talents were very much on show yesterday when Bruce Forsyth celebrated his 80th birthday. He turned up for a party in his honour at the Dorchester in Mayfair with Miss England on one arm and Miss Puerto Rico on the other

The hottest tickets for the year ahead

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:10:07 GMT

From Kylie Minogue and masterpieces of Impressionism to an invasion of Chinese dance companies, the next 12 months will be a treat for London's arts lovers.

Crockett? Johnson is more Tubs as main Guy

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Casting Don Johnson, best remembered as smoothie detective Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice, as Nathan Detroit in spiv musical Guys And Dolls was always going to be a high-risk gamble.

Critic's choice: Top five plays

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:00:39 GMT

The stars of Dirty Dancing are kicking up their heels, Faustus offers a smorgasbord of theatrical delights and Faust provides an evening you're unlikely to forget.

Gunning for ideological purity

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:00:00 GMT

George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara is well revived at the Orange Tree and the audience never feels far from murderous gunfire in Sam Walters's production.

Debut lacks song and dance

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:00:00 GMT

Patrick Swayze's legions of fans will no doubt have the time of their lives seeing him in the flesh in Guys and Dolls, but lovers of musical theatre are unlikely to be impressed.