Journalism
Eddie Izzard’s Supermarket on the Moon
Eddie Izzard’s fashion sense has always been an exciting area for discussion, but on his official website not everyone is impressed with the way things are going. ‘Lately, Eddie’s wardrobe …
read moreAIDS – The First 20 Years
Soon it will be time for Danny La Rue to sing. At the Pleasance theatre in north London at the beginning of May 2001, the 73-year-old entertainer stands onstage in a blue dress and high …
read moreWho Is That Masked Man?
Kendo Nagasaki, a man who has earned fame by beating other men until they cry for mercy, is walking around Finsbury in north London in search of a place where he can have his photograph …
read moreSally, Sex and the Suburbs
On a Wednesday evening last month, a 35-year-old woman called Sally Harris put on the following clothes: pale pink suit, little skirt, cream lace-top hold-ups, a see-through white chiffon blouse, …
read moreThe Cancer Revolution
The story of Gregor Mendel is one of the most romantic that science has to offer. In 1854, an ambitious abbot at a cold monastery in Brno, Czechoslovakia, started devoting his spare time to …
read moreAgent Provocateur
At 4pm on a Wednesday in a modern office in Wandsworth, south London, there is nothing left to do but call Caprice, the blonde model. ‘Hi it’s me!’ says her PR manager Ghislain Pascal. …
read moreThe Chemistry of Happiness
For some unfathomable reason, the key episodes often occur in supermarkets. Two years ago, Jenny Stanaway returned home from her work as a cleaner and went for her big weekly shop …
read moreAnt Always Stands on the Left
The most striking thing about Ant and Dec is not that you can’t tell them apart, but that you can: apart from the light entertainment and children’s shows that went before them, and apart …
read moreToaster, Sideburns, Friends…
Last month I placed the following listing on eBay, the internet’s best-known auction site. It appeared under the Books (Entertainment) section, and it had a reserve price of £1. I lifted the …
read moreUnhappy Anniversary
Much has changed in Pat Edwards’s life in the past 40 years. She has divorced, she has moved from London to the South Coast, she has become a grandmother. But one thing has stayed the …
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