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Sex, scandals and parties: 300 years of life on planet Tatler

08.10.09
Tatler may be an ageing grande dame at 300 years old but she is as relevant today as she has always been... more

Mary and Sir Cliff star in their own hard-core picture

14.05.09
Fans of Sir Cliff Richard may wish to turn away now. They may find it difficult to look him in the face again... more

Gordon can’t ignore our anger over MPs’ perks

06.04.09
Gordon Brown suggested yesterday that he had more important issues than MPs’ expenses to deal with, such as the G20 and saving the globe, and in one way he is right... more

Never mind the b****cks

14.11.08
The debate on bad language on TV rages again — and one writer is hardly surprised... more

The thing about Ross is - he's just very funny

31.10.08
I blame the credit crunch. Only terminal weariness with hearing about our ever-worse economic prospects can explain why Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross dominated the news all week.... more

Ross and Brand? That’s what happens when stars take over the show

30.10.08
Weak managers, far too much bureaucracy and overpaid celebrities are the real reasons the BBC lost the plot over the Brand/Ross crisis... more

Forget cuddly image – this viewers’ lobby group is a force to reckon with

01.10.08
Like many a professional journalist, I am predisposed to scepticism about lobby groups... more

A redundant dad, neurotic mum and wildchild daughter: Meet TV's dysfunctional new 'Family'

27.08.08
With temper tantrums, swearing matches and wayward teenagers, it will be a portrait of the modern British family. But if you think Channel 4's latest documentary series sounds familiar, that's because it is. ... more

Andrea Riseborough is the new iron lady

09.06.08
Bright young star Andrea Riseborough, who depicts a young Maggie on TV this week, has Thatcher to thank for her success in more ways than one.... more

My mother was a snob, says Mary Whitehouse's son

27.05.08
On the eve of a drama about Mary Whitehouse the zealot clean-up TV campaigner, her youngest son launches an astonishing attack on the mother he didn't talk to for 15 years. ... more

Julie Walters: I thought Mary Whitehouse was just a busybody who spoiled all our fun - until I played her on TV

11.05.08
It is an uncanny and slightly terrifying likeness. From the winged glasses and stiffly coiffured hair to the leather gloves and crocodile hide handbag, Julie Walters is the very image of morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse... more

Where's the Jarman I knew?

29.02.08
It's a pity that a new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery all but ignores Derek Jarman's lifelong work as a painter, says Brian Sewell.... more

Rude jokes for all the family

21.12.07
Forget the panto-phobic critics, Stephen Fry's Cinderella is consistently funny, subversive and knowing, says Anne McElvoy.... more

Iranian jokes are hostage to fortune

18.07.07
Omid Djalili wowed the crowd with some edgy humour light years away from Little Britain's fancy dress frivolity at the Comedy Hayday in Hackney.... more

DVDs of the week

03.04.07
The dinosaurs at the New York National History Museum come to life, Eddie Murphy travels back 24 years in time, and Dame Edna's 1987 talk shows are revived on DVD this week.... more

Fanatics blow us up but their time is over

22.08.06
Howard Brenton shocked us in the Eighties, but then he fell out of favour. Now the provocative playwright is back. He talks to Fiona Maddocks about his new comedy on extremism.... more

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