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I have a piece in today's Independent about the new classical series at the Roundhouse, 'Reverb', from 22 to 31 of this month, aimed

The other night I saw Dinner with Portillo -a show whose conceit of filming members of the chattering classes eating lukewarm food and regurgitating

Lord Justice Jackson's report on legal costs today is a remarkable piece of work and his presentation at a press briefing - delivered without

[UPDATE, FRIDAY 15 JANUARY: Since writing the post below, I've been in contact with Alex Prior who tells me that he was "totally misquoted"

The rumours from the comrades are of one last coup attempt against Gordon Brown in March. The Cabinet will tell him to go and

Over at his blog Entartete Musik, my pal Gavin Plumley links to Alan Bennett's piece in the London Review of Books in which our

No music lover can have escaped the information that this is CHOPIN YEAR: the great man's bicentenary. (Along with Schumann's, of course, and there's

I've recently obtained a statement from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claiming responsibility for the abortive terrorist attack on Delta airlines last week.