He has recently finished Home Life, a "prequel, though I hate the word" to his landmark one-act drama debut, The Zoo Story. And he is planning a play "based on a short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, about a brother...

And with leisure time and disposable income on the rise, businesses are continuing to grow. The resulting competition has led many to invest heavily in graduate careers, with large numbers having introduced graduate...

I look at where our holidays can be sold through tactical distribution channels such as Thomas Cook TV, Teletext and over the internet.I love doing something I've always wanted to do and really enjoy the variety and,...

He will look at the case carefully, lay out all the arguments and facts, then come to a decision."Despite reputedly having little time for jokes, there is little of the po-faced technocrat about the Yorkshireman. He...

Although Downing Street insisted there was "no gloating", Mr Blair's spokesman said the Cabinet's message was that serious issues, such as Iraqi weapons, should be discussed without impugning politicians'...

In the pure curvaceous volumes of this almost abstract composition, they could perceive the ominous form of a penis, rising above a pair of testicles. Despite the artist's protestation of innocent intent, the object...

It consists simply of a swelling D-shape (her face), and perched on its crest there's an elegantly twisted blob of hair, like a cartoon cloud. There's a marvellous head of the American culture-vulture, Nancy Cunard...

Ireland, which prides itself on an enlightened human-rights record, has had its voting rights suspended at the Council of Europebecause all of its delegates to the body's parliamentary assembly are men.The council,...

It is, after all, the Gaza Road, and the bomber left a note in which he said that the attack was to avenge the deaths of eight Palestinians - five militants and three civilians, reportedly including an 11-year-old boy...

Some that were basically marketing machines are now going the other way and moving into the technology field. And they need to provide advertisers with ever more subtle ways of getting their message in front of...

He gave me a French tune and I ended up writing the lyric to "Harley-Davidson", which was recorded by Brigitte Bardot.The following year Shaper wrote the winning songs in an ITV song contest in Brighton, their...

This is a matter which research will show she simplified a good deal, since diagnoses of her case were always various and contradictory; but there can be little doubt that the long incarceration during her youth was...

Nothing could be better calculated to turn the British people off Mr Blair than to repeat the worst mistakes of his one-time Conservative role model. The Prime Minister should realise that this pursuit of total...

And the media are going to have to give it to them if they want to keep their ratings up.It also suggests that Michael Howard has got his tactics wrong. He - just as Bush - was in the forefront of making politics into...

But by then the battle lines had been drawn in what the Prime Minister and Alastair Campbell regarded as biased BBC coverage of the Government's handing of the war in Iraq.The lesson that Greg should have learnt back...