Sexual and political intrigue have always been part and parcel of the ruling elite's life

The scrum on College Green, showed that compared to Murdoch, the BBC isn't so bad

Films about psychoanalysis are ten a penny. Despite Kevin Spacey, this one doesn't raise a laugh

'There is a real danger that the new coalition will overlook the urgent need to restore the ladders of aspiration that have been wilfully kicked away since the 1960s'

From Hogarth to Spitting Image, nothing defines our national identity better than comic art

The coalition government's new levy on banks will be a levy on banks' customers

Music is the perfect medium to deal with Goethe's Faust because of its focus on the human condition

It's British politicians who are broken or corrupt or out-of-touch, not the British political system 

My mother, at the age of 100, may feel enfranchised at last