He went from the towering highs of the 60s and 70s, where he changed the face of music, to the shambolic lows of a decades-long addiction. But interviewing the music genius over the years showed me a man who was awed, revered and strangely shy Sly Stone, pioneering funk and […]
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If group of lenders has any prospect of getting its proposal to fly, some of its big numbers will have to look very different Thames Water creditors offer up £5bn as part of emergency turnaround plan If you would kindly rip up the regulatory system, move the goalposts on sewage […]
As the Beckhams finally get what they’ve apparently always wanted, what does it say about the institutions that put so much energy into blocking them? And what does it say about the rest of us? When the unauthorised, warts-and-all biography of the Beckhams, The House of Beckham, came out last […]
From Anne Boleyn to Lady W to Game of Thrones, she has played tough women who kick against society’s constraints. What will the actor bring to the great Russian character who leaves her husband and son? It was back in 2019 that the role of Anna Karenina was first mentioned […]
Chancellor reluctantly tries to smooth things over but looks as if she can’t quite believe some of the nonsense she is saying Mmmm. That went well, didn’t it? One of the first things Labour did after winning the election was to cut the winter fuel allowance (WFA) for most pensioners. […]
‘It’s a myth that Jimi Hendrix played while the stage was on fire. It was a firework’ In 1968, when I was 22, my older brother Ronnie got a job as a fundraiser for a swimming pool on the island. I’d done a concert for CND [the Campaign for Nuclear […]
When Fear of Flying, her autobiographical novel about women’s sexual desires, came out in 1973, Erica Jong was suddenly big news. But growing up as her only child, I had a very different experience In August 1978, I was born in a hospital in Stamford, Connecticut. I came out with […]
The former newsreader on her career’s many twists and turns, her mother’s dementia and why she’s still working – and dancing – at 80 Born in 1944 in Plymouth, Angela Rippon is a British journalist, newsreader and presenter. Her career began at 17 as a photojournalist for the Western Morning […]
An international club where dull people meet online to share the tedium of everyday lives is immensely popular. But for one man it’s a place of poignant connection Get Guardian Australia’s weekend culture and lifestyle email The 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson once wrote, “He is not only dull himself; […]
Seventeen years ago Nathan Dunne was locked out of his body, or at least that’s how it felt. He talks about his battle with depersonalisation disorder – and his sudden fear of water On a cold winter’s night, in a “fit of spontaneity”, Nathan Dunne and his girlfriend went for […]