James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…

Vincent Van Gogh is now a solid fixture in our cultural vocabulary. I need only mention sunflowers or a bandaged ear to conjure up his life…

A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

One of the many changes which the Internet has brought into our lives is that it is remarkably easy to masquerade as something we're not.…

I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…

There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…

Bill Maher, a well-known American comedian, satirist and religious sceptic has added this comedy-documentary to the growing number of…

Dawn Bundy is a fifteen-year-old English girl. She is not especially attractive, and she doesn’t really fit in. Her best friends are…