The scenes outside London’s Piccadilly Theatre this Wednesday were stereotypical of the West End in its heyday. The streets were positively bursting with excitement as
Howard Hodgkin must have seen the world, and the people in it, in a very unusual way. Luckily, human nature dictates that we are intrigued
St Barnabas is, I’m told, the Patron Saint of Encouragement. I didn’t know there was such a thing, but am duly encouraged by this revelation.
WhatsApp has come under fire again today. As of this afternoon, unconfirmed screen-shots indicated that the suspected Stockholm terrorist Rakhmat Akilov was using the application
“Instinct is not for Christian humans.” It is odd that such a statement should be made in a play that is so reliant upon the
“Dearest friend, dearer to me than a father, greetings.” Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo’s works have been married at The National Gallery, where their paintings
The Bloomsbury Set is seen, in many ways, as the epitome of bohemianism. The nucleus of metropolitan intellectualism, sexually emancipated, artistic and daring: Vanessa Bell,
You’d be forgiven for thinking that a play about Brexit – before Article 50 has even been triggered – is over-egging the pudding. More gnarling,
Today is International Women’s Day. The celebration originated in New York in 1908 and is today observed in over 40 countries, celebrating the social, economic, cultural and
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