Celebrities – occupying various positions on the scale of idolatry – are without doubt the all-powerful übermensch of our times. A new super-bourgeoisie, whose lifestyles, fashion changes and personal >>>
On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. "The world is a better place without this man in it," State Department spokesperson Sean >>>
"The essay is an irresistible form: the one chance the dead get to speak to us." Gore Vidal, still very much alive, was in Brighton to talk to Andrew Marr >>>
Culture and consumption are difficult bedfellows. The artist has to live and therefore sell. But does the artist have to sell out? I concern myself with the spread of >>>
Just like everyone else, the US election would come to mind every so often or the news would remind me of what was overdue, but by the 4th November >>>
Life can be tough for your contemporary peeler, stab proof vests, tasers, the unearthing of unspeakable crimes against women and children and the daily battle to ensure that the >>>
In love, she was much younger than he was. Pretty, a nymph disguised, but not a child. Thisbe never needed, felt any loss. Her face was fresh, eyes wide and nothing styled. It >>>
Frisbeetarianism is a religion of unclear origins. The basic principle of it is that when you die, your soul goes up on a roof and you cannot get it >>>
My eyes moved to the other side of the street. It was March. My hair was drenched and the pavements were as slippery as ice. The yellowing oak trees >>>
Let’s talk business. The Heroin business. A part of it any way; a killer that takes lives indiscriminately and without prejudice. I haven’t trawled through the internet and searched >>>
Not so long ago, I wrote an article for the Guardian's Weekend magazine about Andy Coulson, the ex-editor of The News Of The World who now spends his working >>>