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Why Lee’s hands-down the 41st best stand-up
comedian ever!
He lambasts the public and struggles to pay the bills, but Stewart Lee’s innovative comic material could still give him the last laugh, writes Richard Osley
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Adventures with the Dalai Lama - I LEFT innumerable carbon footprints across the world last week, but I plead not guilty. They were caused by my... > more
Crimebuster takes on Hollywood - IN the world of the graphic novel, swar thy crimebusters root out evil wherever it appears and justice... > more
Dannie, the doctor who writes - IT was a still rather melancholy Dannie Abse who appeared at Burgh House in Hampstead last week to talk... > more
Soho dandy’s long lost scripts - MYSTERY manuscripts penned by the celebrated writer and Soho dandy Julian MacLaren-Ross have been discovered... > more
A first night for Foot’s forensic anti-fascist play - I write to Michael Foot and push the envelope through his letterbox. I want to direct a staged... > more
The temple of Bunny Girl Fairies- IT'S no wonder that Paganism is the fastest growing religion in the UK. City dwellers brought up beside electricity pylons, dilapidated...>more
The ‘scapegoat’ admiral left on history’s seabed - THE firing squad cocked their muskets and took aim. A volley of shots rang out and in front of his ...>more
Antony Sher’s intriguing ‘what if?’ tale of two artists -IN terms of artistic primacy, it is a clash of the titans. Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo, two Renaissance ...>more
Can journalism survive the internet? HAS the internet sounded the death knell for good journalism? Does the future belong to bedroom bloggers who can reach ...>more
A woman far ahead of her time - TONGUES were wagging as soon Angelica Kauffmann arrived in London. It was not just the fact that she was a portrait artist of ...>more
Get the audience back into the action - Gavin Henderson, the newly insta lled as principal of the Central School of Speech and Drama – genial and dapper ...>more
Russians in an alien landscape - FOR new-wave post-soviet artist Dmitry Sandjiev the story of his epiphanic art conversion reads like a report from the X-Files...>more
A Caribbean hothouse for the arts in a cold climate - FORTY-one years ago a group of intellectuals from the Caribbean would regularly gather in a tiny flat in...>more
An inside job for poet Hegley - POET John Hegley is a regular on the entertainment circuit – his annual gigs at the Edinburgh Festival are on the must-see list... > more
From Cuban tablecloths to the walls of Hollywood stars - THE phrase “children of the revolution” is now bandied about to sell everything from the latest rock... > more
Gene’s lucky star - BETSY Blair knows the secret of success. The Hollywood star of the 1940s and 1950s can write the magic formula down – an ingredients list... > more
Take a walk down memory street - KENNETH Williams, who lived above his father’s hairdressing shop at number 57 until he was 30, was just one of the many... > more
Grayling chips in on ID tags - WITH his wavy, whitening hair, and balanced demeanour, AC Grayling is quite the philosopher. > more
Bright talent from the dark side - NIGHTMARES were the reason Robert Wynne-Simmons began to write. > more
Murder at the Angel - IT'S 40 years since playwright Joe Orton was brutally murdered in his Islington flat by his jealous live-in lover Kenneth Halliwell. But interest in the...>more
The five ladies who shared the house that Louis built - LOUIS MacNeice did not see it coming, though his wife’s behaviour towards the tall American house guest ...>more
Bright sparks of the big screen - HOLLYWOOD actresses are pretty thin on the ground in Kentish Town, and scarcer still in low-budget British films. Not so...>more
Views from the inside - ALMOST two thousand works of art by prisoners are on display at Wormwood Scrubs. The exhibition, an extension of the ICA’s Insider Art show...>more
Portrait of the poet as a thinking man - IT is a measure of Louis MacNeice that as he stood over the grave of fellow Irish poet WB Yeats, re-interrred from... > more
Sometimes, art for art’s sake is OK - SOME people will really hate it, says art collector Anita Zabludowicz. > more
The room that made a William Morris socialist - MICHAEL Foot has many heroes: Nye Bevan, William Hazlitt, HG Wells, Jonathan Swift and his father, Isaac. > more
Looking for something to sing about - IF you enjoy singing and want something rewarding to do every week, why not join a choir? > more
Little orphan lives revived - MERCY Draper, aka Foundling 2767, was born Elizabeth Chambers on October 24, 1756 in the parish of Castle Eaton, Wiltshire...>more
Yes, Prime Minister - IT was April 1975. A snowy day. I waited in the central lobby of the House of Commons to be taken to lunch. My host was Prime Minister Harold ...>more
Peace from the ashes of destruction - IT is Monday morning in the Basque town of Gernika and the market place is bustling. Market day is the... > more
Unlocking the creative side of the artists behind bars - IS art redemptive? Can the very act of picking up a pen or a paintbrush touch something in the soul... > more
Boy George, the prodigy who was toast of Europe - A BUZZ is growing around composer Julian Josephs’ new jazz opera, Bridgetower. And in a matter... > more
Storey for our times - DAVID Storey, the Booker Prize-winning novelist and playwright, who celebrates his 74th birthday next month, was in open... > more
Distant voices - BEFORE 1920 nothing in the Chechen language was written down. All of the country’s proud heritage and its many struggles were sung... > more
The naked and the dead - FIRST impressions always count. So when you see three giant dinosaurs towering above the classical courtyard entrance to the... > more
Take a trip to Africa – in London - FORGET Bollywood – a celebration of all things African kicks off in London on Saturday. > more
The Tiger author who came out for a chat - WHEN Judith Kerr was a child in Berlin in the early 1930s, she was impressed when her theatre critic father was... > more
‘Watch Big Brother to see we’re a lousy lot’ - THE BIG row over Celebrity Big Brother “took the manhole cover off the subterranean dirty currents of British racism”... > more
The fast comedian behind Young Bond - CHARLIE Higson spent formative comic time with Harry Enfield on the appropriately named Merryville Estate in Hackney. > more
Jack sets his politics to a classy jazz riff - JACK Shepherd, star of the top-rated 1990s television detective series Wycliffe, is back in north London indulging the two... > more
Why doubt matters to the relaxed Rabbi - WHEN Lionel Blue told his mother he was going into the ministry, she burst into tears. > more
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A Private Eye view of a cartoonist’s world - THE cartoonist Michael Heath was evacuated from Bloomsbury to Willow Road in Hampstead during... > more
Dream come true for Bloomsbury - THE Brunswick Centre is buzzing. Shoppers throng the array of stores that now occupy its new glass-fronted arcade. > more
Kicking off a great festival of culture - FEW areas of London conjure up the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Bloomsbury – from the museums and colleges... > more
Virginia’s paper round in the park - IT is easy to forget that Virginia Woolf, the writer seen as one of the lynchpins of the Bloomsbury set and a standard-bearer... > more
The changing face of The Brunswick Centre - THE Brunswick Centre has become an iconic example of modernist building design. > more |
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Picasso’s little-known animal period unveiled - PICASSO’S painting of his lover, Dora Maar and her Cat, sold at auction in New York earlier this year for a... > more
Keeping the spirit alive - TWENTY-TWO years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for a crime he has never discussed. > more
Secrets of Prunella's lunchtime monologues - IT is hard to think of Prunella Scales without conjuring up images of Basil’s shrewish wife Sybil in the classic... > more |
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