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Hunger striker's fury over Met’s ‘secret McDonald's’ claim

09.10.09
Hunger striker at centre of one of Britain’s longest-running demonstrations reacted with fury after being accused of secretly eating McDonald’s... more

Lord Attenborough’s clearance sale

24.09.09
Lord Attenborough is to sell off his treasured paintings — because he says he has run out of wall space... more

London's laughing: Guide to The Camden Fringe

29.07.09
The Camden Fringe is the in full flow — Bruce Dessau guides you to the funniest bits around.... more

Bleached-out Michael Jackson is no role model for me

03.07.09
It is exactly a week since the ridiculous mass hysteria first erupted over the death of MJ (as he is now being called). For seven days the nation has been deluged with little else but the ceaseless outpourings of grief... more

Brave words for a new peace with the Muslim world

05.06.09
With his speech in Cairo, the President has gone a long way towards repairing the damage of the Bush years... more

Versailles? Washington? Gordon Brown offers visiting world leaders ... Canning Town

24.03.09
As global premiers prepare to assemble for the G20 summit at a bleak east London wasteland, we pick some highlights around the ExCel conference centre... more

Tycoon buys Gandhi glasses

06.03.09
A billionaire drinks baron has bid £1.3million for five items which belonged to Mahatma Gandhi... more

Quirky art of understatement from Mirza and Munnery

05.02.09
While Shazia Mirza covers well-trodden terrain, Simon Munnery is a scruffy clown that revels in obscurity.... more

Bombay Brasserie is great place to lose pounds

21.01.09
The revamped Bombay Brasserie still serves delicious food — but be prepared for an eye-watering bill.... more

I want to save lives, says doctor cleared of airport terror plot

23.12.08
The neurosurgeon acquitted of planning car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow has insisted he wants to save lives not kill innocents... more

Did Cameron let the cat out of the bag?

10.10.08
Michael Howard’s call for the Financial Services Authority to investigate the source of Robert Peston’s story about confidential talks between banking chiefs, the Chancellor and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King that sparked a plunge in bank shares on Tuesday morning is interesting. ... more

Big business in India frets as political climate is turning sour

15.09.08
Analysis: UK-based industrialists Lakshmi Mittal, Anil Agarwal and Lord Swraj Paul have huge projects at risk in India because of land acquisitions issues... more

Partition crosses the divide

11.09.08
Partition relates the awful nature of religious bigotry but doesn't say much about the political mistake which Gandhi in the end so regretted.... more

A future Tory Cabinet ... at least according to Tatler

09.09.08
Ten young Conservatives - billed as the party's stars of the future - have been transformed from dour political animals to fashionable clothes horses... more

Richard Attenborough: The film bosses wanted Gandhi to be sexy - and be played by Richard Burton

03.09.08
In the final part of his captivating memoirs, film legend Richard Attenborough recalls an epic struggle... more

Richard Attenborough: 'How I ended up signing women's breasts while brother David tickled gorillas' chests'

02.09.08
Here, in the third part of our exclusive serialisation of his autobiography, he tells how the strict regime of his loving father set him - and his brothers - on the path to success.... more

Ben Kingsley is back with a bang

02.09.08
With The Wackness and Elegy in cinemas, isn’t it time to re-assess the late-flowering career of Sir Ben Kingsley?.... more

Jason Byrne levels things out

28.08.08
Jason Byrne was on showstopping form with his reflections on the problems of keeping romance alive on the opening night of Pimms Summerfest.... more

My Indian summer

22.08.08
Two months ago Nirpal Dhaliwal left London to make a fresh start in Delhi. Here, he reveals how going back to his roots has given him a new outlook... more

It's easy to fall for judo

17.07.08
In the first of a new series, James Olley discovers what it takes to go to the Games by getting to grips with one of the GB judo team... more

Bono - up close and horrible

04.03.08
The very act of entering the cinema and donning 3-D specs to watch U2 3D made critic Richard Godwin want to spoon his eyes out in protest.... more

Liz Hurley and the Indian servant problem

21.02.08
Violet D'Souza claimed she worked 70 hours a week for Liz Hurley and her loaded husband Arun Nayar and was paid as little as £1.20 per hour for housekeeping and other chores. D'Souza is one of many servants brought in by the dizzyingly successful Indian upper and middle classes with homes across London who simply can't manage without imported flunkeys. Some are non-dom magnates or celebs, others are professionals - doctors, accountants, IT whizzes and entrepreneurs... more

An Indian trilogy

08.08.07
Showing at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the India Now season, Amar Kanwar's trilogy weaves traditional mythology with modern events.... more

No peace for this unknown Gandhi

02.08.07
Gandhi my father is a decently acted but slow-paced story of the life of Gandhi's son Harilal, which fortunately manages to avoid the clichés of Bollywood.... more

Floating Taj Mahal to launch Indian festival

06.07.07
A floating replica of the Taj Mahal will sail down the Thames to launch a spectacular three-month Indian festival in London.... more

The secret of Monet's style, part II

14.06.07
It has emerged that Claude Monet's famously blurred paintings may have been affected by London's weather... more

A child bride takes charge

31.05.07
Deepa Mehta's superb Water, the final part of her notable Elemental Trilogy, follows the plight of a young Indian widow in 1938 trying to escape her fate for a better life.... more

Put Kate and Kylie 'in museum'

17.05.07
Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue and the iPod should be preserved in museums as icons of our time, according to a new survey.... more

The dignity is all in the detail

10.04.07
The ENO's faultless new production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha asks you to abandon yourself to theatre of contemplation.... more

Dining dens where the plot thickens

13.09.06
Forget the Commons - London's finest restaurants are where all of the real political scheming takes place, as former Labour minister Gerald Kaufman reveals.... more

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