Currently roving Foreign Affairs Correspondent for The Sunday Times, author and journalist Christina Lamb has been a foreign correspondent for almost 20 years, living in Pakistan, Brazil and South Africa. She was named 2007 Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British Press Awards, and the...

Michael Billington has lived through an era of radical change in politics, society and the theatre. And the stage, he says, is the art form that best reflects the mood of the nation.
To celebrate the publication of his recent history of post-war theatre, State of the Nation - British...

John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle, the words walk in the grooves hacking through the hi-fi paradise of true luxury. John Cooper Clarke stormed into popular cultural consciousness in the late 1970s with the albums Disguise in Love, Snap Crackle (&) Bop, and Zip Style Method, a...

When author Dan Kennedy is hired by a major label he thinks he has been handed a pass to the secret kingdom of rock and roll. Whether directing a gangsta rapper's video or battling his better judgement to create a campaign celebrating 25 years of Phil Collins' love songs, he's in way...