Hints and tips:
...the city: Julianknxx, who is on view at the Barbican Centre, will be at Edel Assanti’s booth at Frieze London; El Anatsui, who opens in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall on October 10, will have a solo booth at Jack...
...“As a kid, I loved Barry Humphries, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, all of whom would have been considered edgy, but I also loved light entertainers — Bruce Forsyth on The Generation Game, and Des O’Connor...
...The headteachers of which fictional school have included Mr Llewellyn, Mr CJ Humphries and Mrs Bridget McCluskey?...
...After news broke on Sunday night that former foreign secretaries Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw had been caught in a newspaper sting, both men were quick to defend comments that had been recorded on hidden...
...John Humphries, 72, and his wife Sandra, 67, will be voting for Mr Helmer on Thursday. Ex-Conservative voters, they want to see immigration stopped and capital punishment reintroduced....
...Other guests include Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Dame Edna Everage, the latter lending her mellifluous Antipodean tones to a duet with Wainwright called “I Remember Sex”: comic brilliance....
...Barry Humphries, the man beneath the sequins and mauve rinse, is now 77 years old, and Edna too is beginning to slow down....
...The ceremony was shown on a giant screen in the throne room, festooned with Union Jack bunting for the occasion....
...Union Jack’s pub in Bethesda, just outside the centre of Washington, opened at 5.30am for what was billed as “the event of the decade”....
...Max Humphries has built an impressive giant Gog (voiced by Patrick Stewart), but having Gog run a marshmallow factory in the clouds is exactly the kind of Bowdlerism that last year’s Lyric Cinderella scorned...
...He came up with a great back-handed compliment to John Humphrys a few days ago, praising him for asking “elegant questions”....
...represent a new and sinister form of terror, akin to the now more widely recognised form of attack such as managing an Icelandic bank or sending an 82-year-old man into the Labour conference to shout at Jack...
...Simpson is one of the grandes dames of the BBC, a Diana Rigg to John Humphrys’ Judi Dench and Jeremy Paxman’s Helen Mirren....
...A “Jewish Robert Elsmere” (Mrs Humphry Ward’s genteel bestseller) was what the elders had in mind - something that would generate sympathy and respect....
...If Radio 4 listeners - a stunningly loyal bunch, tuning in for an average 13 hours a week - had to express the essence of the channel, they could seize on a number of intelligent speakers: John Humphrys’...
...Even John Humphrys would have trouble trying to nail them down - and his audience, which believes the BBC has already conceded too much to the government, is none too impressed....
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