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Melvyn Wallis-Brown: 'I'm horrified by the pain I inflicted on those fellows'
Peter Bills Meets... He lives in a Cape Town cottage built for officers before the Boer War. Perhaps not surprising then, that Melvyn Wallis-Brown revels in the subject of history, not least how it has underpinned the structure of his beloved Bishops school.
Inside Columnists
John Walsh: God wants you wealthy – and he'd also like your cinema and a fast car
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Tales of the City
Dom Joly: We went through hoops for a game
Monday, 17 August 2009
Weird World of Sport: There are endless country croquet courses, or villages, as they are known
Dom Joly: Britannia rules at Scrabble (and that's my final word)
Sunday, 16 August 2009
Every year we spend part of our summer holidays with friends in their cottage on Bruce Beach on the shores of Lake Huron in Canada. Entertainment is sparse around here so, once the kids are in bed, we hunker down to some marathon games of Scrabble.
Richard Ingrams’s Week: Awkward questions over Lockerbie won't go away
Saturday, 15 August 2009
There will be strenuous denials that any kind of deal has been done with the so-called Lockerbie bomber Abdul al-Megrahi whereby he agrees to drop his appeal against conviction in return for being allowed to return to Libya.
David Lister: Making an album shouldn't kill you
Saturday, 15 August 2009
'None of us," said Radiohead's singer Thom Yorke this week, "want to go into the creative hoo-ha of a long play record again... We've all said we can't possibly dive into that again. It'll kill us." When the coolest member of the coolest band around speaks, we listen.
Dylan Jones: 'Salvador Dali's garden is full of trompe-l'oeil figures and has a swimming pool in the shape ofan erect penis'
Saturday, 15 August 2009
Talk Of The Town
Tom Sutcliffe: Art that hits all the right notes
Friday, 14 August 2009
I think the best thing I've seen recently was a label. It read "Please Play" and it was painted in yellow letters on the scuffed concrete of the Roundhouse in London.
Brian Viner: Could the old order finally be upset?
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Pre-season events have been both hugely dispiriting and rather uplifting
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