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Voltaire once said of religion: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin...
Someone recently watched a film I was lucky enough to make about the late artist and sculptor Barry Flanagan. They asked me how the idea came about...
While the rest of the world realigns, the little reported super-fast 200mph peregrine falcon is once more king of the London skies. There is even such...
While the rest of the world realigns, the little reported super-fast 200mph peregrine falcon is once more king of the London skies. There is even such...
An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin Modern Poets series in which...
Betty Boop is not the only remarkable figure on show in Florida. Henry McLeish is visiting professor of UK and European politics at the University of...
Often the success of a painting today is measured in terms of how much it sells for and not how much it may or may not affect us. Everything we hold...
London, 4.44am. I used to catch minicabs to airports around this time. To Kabul, via Dubai, or a plane direct to New York. Back then, a quick blast of...
A teenage boy last week was stabbed to death close to where we live here in south-east London. He was reported as saying, ‘I’m 15, don’t let me...
The giant harvest moon in the London sky sent me scurrying back to Neil Young, though rather than moonlight for harvesting farmers, it got me...
News rolls in, news rolls out. Somewhere in the waves we lose our compassion. Occasionally, on beaches, we find it again. Like a not so rigid...
I write this from a London hospital bed having—most powerfully—imagined bagpipes the moment I came round from my operation. Drugs will do that for...