Arts bodies will be able to bid for up to £5million from a new £55million government pot designed to encourage the creation of US-style endowment funds... more
Some good news for the Marylebone Cricket Club. JPMorgan, arguably Wall Street's most successful bank, has stepped in with a major, four-year sponsorship deal for Lord's, including its media centre... more
Oh, Jacqui: no. I'm staring at a picture of a woman in heavy make-up and a purple sparkly car coat in the midst of the Soho sex shop zone. It's the former Home Secretary in one of the most ill-advised publicity shots ever agreed to by a woman who is not Katie Price... more
The value of principles is being tested to destruction at the moment. For the 171 undersigned who wrote to The Guardian’s letters page yesterday, righteous anger with BP is worth the collapse of Tate Britain.... more
By comparison with that golden morning of May 2, 1997, it’s a pretty lacklustre result: more than 150 seats down on the 418 Labour MPs who romped home in that dawn of New Labour... more
In The Air: Mark Thompson’s BBC strategy review — which recommends closing niche radio stations 6 Music and Asian Network — fails to convince his staff... more
Criticism of the war in Afghanistan increased as it was announced that two more British soldiers have been killed, meaning nine serviceman have died in the last nine days... more
From a cheap-and-cheerful curry house adored by the Lib-Dems to a "1970s-style" Italian restaurant that has become a Tory stronghold, the favoured establishments of London's politicos are revealed ... more
The experience of being an immigrant fuelled the writing of The White Tiger, the debut novel by Indian writer Aravind Adiga which has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize... more
One of this year's Man Booker Prize judges has criticised male academics who sit on literary panels, claiming they pick "highbrow" novels over readable ones... more
The latest epic from Salman Rushdie and the hotly tipped story of post-9/11 America by Joseph O'Neill have failed to make the Man Booker shortlist... more
Salman Rushdie, already winner of this year's Best of Booker Prize for Midnight's Children and shortlisted three times previously, is once again among those in line to win the literary award... 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
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