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Jaci Stephen: 'It's Friday, and that damned "Thriller" video is still on every channel'
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Brian Viner: You need to be losing to be loved in SW19
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
The Centre Court faithful had never wholly embraced the driven Scot
Alex James: I'm going to take my cheese underground
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Got to the hotel about 4.30am. Topiary, fountains and four-posters, two miles from Glastonbury. It was blissful to sit there in the morning sun, sipping tea and sucking cigarettes. I was quite content, didn't want to do anything, go anywhere, see anyone for once and was slightly annoyed with myself for having arranged to meet a cheesemaker in Shepton Mallet.
Joel Stransky: 'That single kick changed my life'
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Peter Bills Meets... Joel Stransky's whole life changed the minute the drop goal attempt which he successfully steered between the goalposts at Ellis Park sailed over. It won South Africa the World Cup.
John Walsh: 'How much for Janis's letters? Holy cow. Is rock 'n' roll the new literature?'
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Tales of the City
Tom Sutcliffe: Don't tell me the Queen's a bargain
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
You can see what Sir Alan Reid, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, had in mind when he broke down the annual cost of the monarchy to a per capita basis in presenting the Royal Family's accounts to us yesterday. Only 69p a year for all that history, we were supposed to think.
Dom Joly: Anyone for Greco-Roman wrestling?
Monday, 29 June 2009
Weird World of Sport: I started to worry I'd see my name in the papers as a waste of the licence fee
Dom Joly: Entering China was like a heady burst of freedom
Sunday, 28 June 2009
It's a weird state of affairs when you find entering China to be some heady, exhilarating burst of freedom. Yet, last week, as I left North Korea and crossed into China by train, I felt just that. You become institutionalised remarkably quickly in a totalitarian state: what you find peculiar on the first day soon becomes the norm. I imagine it's just the way we are programmed to survive.
Brian Viner: Kournikova or Sharapova? That's a double-fault in the love match of life
Saturday, 27 June 2009
The Last Word
Richard Ingrams’s Week: Celebrity coverage is rarely fair and balanced
Saturday, 27 June 2009
"Nobody has soared so high and dived so low," says David Miliband on his website, according to a report in The Times. He was referring, apparently, not to Tony Blair or Gordon Brown but to the late Michael Jackson. "RIP Michael," Miliband added in a pious afterthought.
David Lister: Theatres should give women a break
Saturday, 27 June 2009
What was the biggest event in theatre this week? It was all set to be Nicholas Hytner's excellent initiative in beaming Helen Mirren's performance in Phèdre to cinemas around the world. But the National Theatre's artistic director has been upstaged by the arts minister, Barbara Follett.
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