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Heath is what ‘great outdoors’ should be
THE Heath is everything the countryside should be but isn’t, according to author Deborah Moggach.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Heath and Hampstead Society on Tuesday, the writer – whose credits include... > more |
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Welcomed, but the men still get a frosty reception - LATE-NIGHT summer skinny-dippers aside, the Heath Ladies’ Pond has always been man-free. So last ...>more
Omega spells out the end of an era in Gothic fashion- I RECEIVED a macabre letter recently, complete with skulls as a figurehead, informing me of the death of ...>more
Two natural-born fighters slug it out over their idea of justice - HELENA Kennedy was on home territory when she chaired a debate in Glasgow on Friday evening... > more
Farewell to George, and a real local shop - TWO observations sprang to mind when I heard about the closure of a family-run store in York Rise, Dartmouth Park...>more
An armed copper pointed to No 11 - “JUST give a rap on the door!” suggested a heavily-armed policeman. I was standing outside No 10 Downing... > more
Rose, the outspoken educator who inspired everyone she met - IT was one of those moments when you know you are in the presence of someone... > more
Clearing out old folks’ homes is a lot easier than clearing up the scandal - WHY is the Town Hall so desperate to keep a report secret that officials have used ...>more
Aggressive’ – the best compliment a journo can get“ - YOU are the worst journalist I have ever met. The most aggressive man I have ever met in my life.” With a...>more
Picasso’s science and art in perfect harmony - I THOUGHT Banksy started it all, but this week I discovered Picasso also liked to turn a wall into a canvas. Professor ...>more
The Charmer deserved more in old age- A COLLEAGUE was sitting next to the veteran Sunday Times reporter Brian Glanville at the Spurs game against ...>more
Like a Watchtower, Dr Miller? I KNOW exactly how writer Alan Bennett must have felt when he heard a Jehovah Witnesses blitz hitting his Camden Town street.>more
Newsreader Richard is a Young One again - ONE of the original cast members from a Cliff Richard film has reprised his role 46 years later for a Highgate theatre...>more
Illtyd’s date with 007 - OUR literary editor Illtyd Harrington was enjoying a spot of classical music at his London home on Friday morning when the phone rang. > more
Through the drizzle, signs of victory on the horizon - HEAD down and umbrella high against the heavy rain, I made my way across the soaked grass and muddy... > more
Welcoming home the painter Prodigal Son - I DON’T recall ever beginning a story like this before, but I feel I am being pretty accurate when I sum up a new... > more
A bloody reminder of war - HE stood in his white cassock, his shoes slightly sinking into the tree bark laid like a carpet in front of the Cenotaph. > more
Gordon Bennett! His works are finally being appreciated - READERS may recall a story I featured a few months ago about the sale of 500 paintings by... > more
Alan Coren’s last laugh in Camden Town - ALAN Coren, the brilliant humourist and broadcaster, who died last Friday aged 69, is, I now discover... > more
The Wonder of a bond that forged a love less ordinary - IF love endures you can find it in two plain benches that stand side by side in a leafy square in Bloomsbury.>more
The grim face of a bidder at an auction - AS his glasses slipped to the end of his nose, he looked anxious. > more
Inmate art after brush with the law - ART by prisoners – some of them serving long sentences – is becoming the rage among collectors, I hear.The latest exhibition...>more
Edinburgh was worth waiting for - ANOTHER confession: I have always been a bit of a late developer. How else can I explain why I never went to the Edinburgh ...>more
Whittington could be A&E casualty - HAS the Whittington hospital been put at risk by the latest reforms proposed for the National Health Service in London? > more
‘Batman’ headteacher gets a special send-off - I RECEIVED a telephone call as I sat at my desk on Saturday afternoon wondering what the hell I was doing there... > more
An artist I should have known – the story of my Freudian slip - I WAS leaving St Bride’s Church off Fleet Street at the end of a memorial service for the famous... > more
Guilty pleasures of a Law Lord - I’VE met Law Lord Stephen Sedley several times over the years, but I never knew until I read a piece of his in the London Review... > more
Blimey! The Empire strikes back - IT was a strange moment. I felt I was witnessing something that could be described as the Empire Strikes Back! > more
Mystery art dealer bags 20 Bennett works - I HEARD a mysterious art dealer turned up at the recent auction of paintings by the Swiss Cottage artist Gordon... > more
It’s curtains for single-sex wards promised by Blair - I’M pretty sure there’s one topic that was never mentioned when Tony Blair paid a flying PR visit to... > more
Docs consider union over online ‘disaster’ - JUDY King, a cancer researcher at the Royal Free, left the High Court yesterday (Wednesday) a disappointed... > more
It’s frame and fortune for the kids from tough estates - SOMETHING happened during my journey yesterday morning (Wednesday) on the 274 bus just after... > more
Blair’s hush hush visit to say thanks to UCL staff - TONY Blair paid a sneak visit on Monday to the University College Hospital London where an operation... > more
Our doctors are sick of Hewitt’s jobs fiasco - IS health secretary Patricia Hewitt burning the candles at night to try and find jobs for an estimated 10,000... > more
Barbican bash shows winners take the bus - I BUMPED into actor Kenneth Cranham at the Barbican Library’s 25th birthday party on Monday where he was... > more
Dobbo has some advice for the Canadian health service - MY attention has been drawn to the other side of the Atlantic, where Canada’s Toronto Star... > more
Cough up, doc say Free rules - MAKING relatives of patients, doctors and nurses pay parking charges has netted the Royal Free hospital in Hampstead... > more
Miliband is Paxmanned by the littlest inquisitors - HE wasn’t on a campaign trail but it must have seemed like that when environment minister David Miliband... > more
Doctor in the house is from Poland, Greece and Italy - I HAVE discovered that the medical profession is suffering from the ‘Polish-plumber’ syndrome. > more
Style and substance which ran in this literary family - WITH the death of Jack Gaster on Monday has gone the last link with a host of great writers and literary... > more
The actor will see you now... - IT’S a part made for actor Leslie Phillips, star of Carry on Nurse. But remarkably this role comes on the NHS... > more
Burman’s dark material - HAVE you ever wondered what celebrities and politicians are really thinking as they flash their big smiles at you in the press? > more
Two unsung heroines - HEROISM is a word I would use to describe Jill Pay, a woman I have known for many years. > more
The NHS can only get better - THE National Health Service is overflowing with doctors.
No one has to wait for an operation. > more
Roberts lust for life -
AS I moved among the guests who packed the West End gallery and the tinkling glasses of champagne on Tuesday night for the opening... > more
Too hard to say ‘yes’? - HE spoke in soft broken English, a face full of pain, and the 750 strong audience at Friends Meeting House in Euston on Tuesday was... > more
Buying health with wallets instead of at the ballot box - DO I detect a whiff of rebellion among doctors, nurses and hospital staff over the mess this government is... > more
Why is star Marc Bolan still waiting for a Blue Plaque? - I’VE got a beef against the system run by English Heritage that determines who is famous enough to... > more
The day the great TS Eliot took a young poet to task - THERE were more poets to the square foot at a gathering on Tuesday than I have ever seen before. > more
I’d love to tell you what the doctors said... but I can’t - FACED with unemployment junior doctors are using raw language on their internet message board to lambast... > more
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