Lobbing Horseshit
With everyone talking about the need for 'respect' Martin Rowson reckons it's time to come clean about what they really mean
Culture
Reel time
Andrew Tudor salutes Ken Loach's unique vision
Triumph of light
Distinguished musicologist and composer Wilfred Mellers, the man who first compared The Beatles to Schubert, celebrates the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wilfrid Mellers died on 16 May 2008
Thinker: William Shakespeare
Continuing our series of thinkers who have been important for humanism, Brian McClinton puts in a bid for Shakespeare.
Mr Gray’s Elegy
The playwright and diarist Simon Gray died on August 6, 2008. In this review for 2006 Brenda Maddox reviews the second volume of Gray's 'Smoking Diaries', 'The Year of The…
Wonderful world
Tony Russell reviews Thomas Brother's new book on Satchmo and New Orleans
French impressions
Ken Worpole on the genius of Joseph Roth
Culture of fear
Judith Vidal-Hall reviews a new collection on censorship
French Farce
Hip hop didn't spark the riots in Paris, says Caspar Melville; it merely predicted them
Sinking feeling
Laurie Taylor questions yet another time-honoured certainty