Friday, May 6, 2016
Hundreds of comics, musicians and actors ready to entertain the city for a monthOne of the joys of living in Brighton (& Hove) is its annual festival. There is so much to see, hear and v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25AMMonday, January 11, 2016
How James Joyce used the Daily Express to illustrate Ireland’s coming clash There is much to appreciate about the story that concludes James Joyce’s Dubliners. After all, The Dead is reg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
It was a genuine joy to watch a gut-wrenching drama by one of my oldest friends Journalism loses dreamers along the way who proclaim that they’re giving up newspapers to write The Great No…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMThursday, March 6, 2014
Throughout the Leveson process newspaper publishers and editors have been extolling the virtues of freedom of the press while casting themselves as tribunes of that freedom.Critics, by contr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Mark Shenton, the Sunday Express chief theatre critic for the past 11 years, has been fired in extraordinary circumstances.He has been accused of bringing the newspaper into disrepute becaus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMFriday, November 29, 2013
More than 100 prominent people from literature, the arts, science, academia, human rights and the law have signed a declaration urging newspaper and magazine publishers to embrace the royal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMThursday, September 26, 2013
A US comedian upset by a journalist's tweets about his performance was arrested after allegedly assaulting him.Jokes told by Dan Nainan at the annual charity event in Washington, DC's funnie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:09AMMonday, September 9, 2013
I saw the Abbey Theatre's excellent production of Major Barbara on Friday evening. George Bernard Shaw may be unfashionable nowadays but there is much to appreciate in his polemics.With only…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Tom Stoppard, the playwright who has so often explored the nature of freedom in his work, is to be awarded the 2013 PEN/Pinter prize.Established in 2009 in memory of Nobel-laureate Harold Pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25AMFriday, August 3, 2012
Rich Peppiatt's one-man show at the Edinburgh festival is replete with some highly entertaining material in which he turns the tables on tabloid editors.In reporting parlance, he doorsteps t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PMThursday, March 29, 2012
A musical called Newsies, based on the 1899 strike by young newspaper vendors in New York, is reported to be delighting audiences in Broadway theatre previews.The New York Post reports that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMMonday, June 6, 2011
One of The Guardian's most distinguished reporters, Richard Norton-Taylor, is stepping down from his staff job.In announcing the decision today - Norton-Taylor's 67th birthday - Guardian edi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AMMonday, April 18, 2011
The Sun made a song and dance last week about a gagging order that prevented the paper from naming an actor who "romped" with the woman "renowned" for previously romping with Wayne Rooney.It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:16AMFriday, February 18, 2011
I commend a piece on doorstepping, My life as a milk bottle, by Fleet Street veteran John Smith (aka Plain John Smith in his days on The People).Three anecdotes from his piece, on the gentle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07AM 
