Complexity should not blind us to the significance of the drip-drip-drip of revelations that are helping us to get a clearer picture of what happened at the News of the World... more
What now for Fortress Wapping? Perhaps not a question high on the agenda at the next board meeting of News International. But you can bet developers are already mulling what price they might pay for it... more
Barrister is suing the Met for wrongful arrest after he was led away in handcuffs while he was defending a client at a bankruptcy hearing at the High Court... 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
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history... more
He is a multi-millionaire basketball star who is frequently mobbed for his autograph by fans. Yet in his native Tottenham, Pops Mensah-Bonsu is virtually anonymous... more
Paul Scofield, one of the greatest actors of his generation and a ‘colossus’ of stage and screen, was being mourned last night. He died at 86 in a hospital near his Sussex home after a long battle with leukaemia.
Scofield was best known for his portrayal of the Tudor statesman Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film of Robert Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons – which won him a best actor Oscar... more
The brilliant young German who became court painter to Henry VIII was a devout Catholic and could easily have lost his head. Dull conformity saved him from the axe, says Brian Sewell.... more
Leonardo Da Vinci at the V&A, Holbein at Tate Britain and modern British art at the Hayward Gallery. Hephzibah Anderson selects the cream of London's exhibition crop.... more
A portrait which has not been seen in Britain for almost 500 years will be one of the main attractions in Tate Britain's Hans Holbein autumn blockbuster.... 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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