The first in this new three-part series of Whitechapel was bliss — the sort of high-gloss, sinister-silly crime caper that you want to settle down with of a Monday evening.... more
"I have an idea,” Isabella Blow told me over lunch a few years ago. “I think you should interview Alexander McQueen.” It was 2004 and we were both working at Tatler. “But first,” she said, “you have to impress him. He is very intelligent. We have to make him think the interview is his idea.” If anyone could persuade him to do anything it was Isabella. She was his best friend, his conspirator, his inspiration... more
After enrolling at the Royal College of Art, Dinos became an assistant to the artists Gilbert and George, before collaborating with his brother Jake... more
David Bailey recently spent a night taking pictures of ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things in the East End with a camera phone ... more
With Halloween falling on the last Friday of half-term, there are plenty of ghoulish activities to spook the family. So be afraid - be very afraid.... more
The double killer who planned to emulate Jack the Ripper was jailed for a minimum of 30 years but refuses to reveal where he dumped his victims... more
New exhibition Jack the Ripper and the East End tempers press and police material with videos of contemporary talking heads discussing prostitution, poverty and murder.... more
Poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell is the latest to add his four penn'rth on Jack the Ripper in the stylistically elegant The Only Girl in the World.... more
If you have the patience David Fincher's Zodiac, a meticulously made thriller about the serial kiiller who terrified San Francisco in the Sixties and Seventies, should provide ample reward.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do