Hints and tips:
...Talking to me from Manchester, where she had been attending the Stirling Prize ceremony — this year awarded to the John Morden Centre, an older people’s home in Blackheath, south London — Brown is withering...
...Jeremy Corbyn, the opposition Labour chief, is the party’s most radical leftist leader since George Lansbury in the 1930s....
...He lives at 17 Cherry Tree Lane with his three children: Annabel, John and Georgie (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and Joel Dawson, respectively)....
...This, in essence, is the question that John Bew attempts to answer in his long and fascinating biography of Labour’s greatest prime minister....
...John McDonnell, the Labour shadow chancellor, prompted bemusement on Wednesday when he brandished a copy of Mao’s “Little Red Book” during his response to the Autumn Statement....
...In the end voters will choose between the calm logic of former prime minister John Major and the populism of Ukip’s Nigel Farage. My money is on Mr Major....
...When the Minnesota Opera announced that an opera version of The Manchurian Candidate was on the way, one wondered how music could possibly add to a story treated so brilliantly in John Frankenheimer’s 1962...
...Financial Times contributor John Kay was made a CBE for his contribution to economics and sculptor Antony Gormley receives a knighthood....
...One of those luminaries, Angela Lansbury, was in fact under contract to MGM in the halcyon era....
...But then I had the same accolade for my bill in 2008, and so had John Hutton, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown before me. Welfare didn’t start with Beveridge....
...Alan Joyce was the dark horse candidate when he was picked for Qantas’s chief executive in 2008 and defeated John Borghetti, a life-long Qantas employee and once one of the favourites for the top job....
...Whichever name is announced at Labour’s conference next month, he or she will reassert an English dominance that stretched from George Lansbury in the 1930s through Clement Attlee, Hugh Gaitskell, Harold...
...This principle dictates that in 2010 the award for Best Play is likely to go to John Logan’s Red, about the painter Mark Rothko, rather than to my own preference, Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, about female...
...Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit admitted using an earpiece. Patrick Stewart in Waiting for Godot saw the ghost. 29....
...At least he assured us, in his speech for religious conservatives last week, that the Mormon Church is not pulling his strings, as the mother, played by Angela Lansbury, and her evil foreign masters did...
...There has been John Cameron Mitchell’s steamy Shortbus, a paean to polysexuality with no-holds-barred scenes of gay lovemaking plus an orgy....
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