The Evening Standard British Film Awards have been handed out but how did the judges on our panel arrive at their decisions? Here they explain their choices... more
Hero of the Sixties counter-culture Michael Horovitz tells Tim Willis why it would take uncommon sense for him to be appointed Oxford professor of Poetry on Friday.... more
It is not the obvious choice for a spring bank holiday break to rival Cornish beaches or Parisian boulevards, but this weekend the message for those wanting to get away from it all is: Come to Harrow... more
We undoubtedly live in exciting times for gadgetry, but relentless neophilia distracts from the fact that new technology is expensive and fallible. Chalk and talk is neither... more
His hair is greyer, and his thick, black, Peter Sellers-style bureaucrat’s glasses a fraction slimmer. But otherwise, India’s new finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, could have stepped through a time warp from the last time he delivered a national budget 25 years ago in the last days of Indira Gandhi ... more
As I've mentioned before, I love tradition. My father loved tradition. His father did before him. In fact, our family's love of tradition goes further back than anyone can remember... more
Kate Winslet, Sally Hawkins and Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle are among the stars battling for honours at this year's Evening Standard British Film Awards... more
Sellers knocked her out with a joint. Rod Stewart wore her knickers. And Jack Nicholson watched her give birth. Britt Ekland's one-woman show is not for the squemish.... more
Avram Grant reminded Michael Hart of the movie in which Peter Sellers plays a gardener who, inexplicably, becomes the President of the United States... more
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