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Take 'history' by artists with a big pinch of salt

09.10.09
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

A man for all seasons Sir Thomas More brought low by fiction

17.09.09
By traducing Sir Thomas More, Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall, frontrunner for the Man Booker Prize, does history a disservice... more

Surely this is the winner, a tome that makes history

08.09.09
Not one of this year's Man Booker shortlisted novels is set in the present. Perhaps we don't have any contemporary stories to tell? ... more

News International adds to its east London properties

27.08.09
News International have secured new offices in east London as it paved the way to move parts of its business out of its Wapping headquarters... more

Back home, the Tottenham boy who walks tall in US basketball

14.08.09
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

Barrister arrested for 'assault' in court fracas

23.07.09
Barrister dragged out of the High Court in handcuffs after being arrested on suspicion of common assault... more

Rupert Murdoch’s £700k secret deal in the Royal Court

09.07.09
Secret deal hatched by News of the World to hush up details of phone-tapping was sealed in a tiny room at the Royal Courts of Justice... more

My annual skate is being put on ice

17.12.08
Splat! That's the sound of me ice-skating and it's a noise that has been heard for the last time throughout this city... more

Post-Olympic push is set to be a private affair

21.11.08
Property: It is important to decide just what to do with the Olympic Games site post-2012... more

Steve Coogan isn't so bad

12.11.08
Steve Coogan has certainly learned his lines and is frequently stomach-achingly funny, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Paul Scofield, A Man For All Seasons Oscar-winner, dies at 86

20.03.08
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

How the English dumbed down Hans Holbein

02.10.06
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

Critic's Choice: Top Five Exhibitions

28.09.06
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

More family is back home after 500 years

25.09.06
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

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