The salaries of staff can be broadcast to the nation but 'talent costs' mustremain secret The BBC has an inconsistent, almost dysfunctional attitude towards money. Now and then it engages in the commercial market aggressively and enthusiastically, but, for most...
Read more"SHUDAAAP!" A burly, stubble-bearded man growled yobbishly at a younger woman who was trying rather nervously to speak. "You've got a mahf like the Blackwall Tunnel." The woman briefly looked as if she were about to cry. A scene from...
Read moreThe French have become unhealthily obsessed by the personality and private life of their President, Nicolas Sarkozy. The media are fascinated by him. He is the subject of more than 100 books. A psychiatrist, Dr Serge Hefez, has given this...
Read moreA horribly embarrassing incident has occurred at the Chelsea Flower Show: someone has made the terrible mistake of treating a member of the royal family as if he were a normal person. Even making an allowance for the fact that...
Read moreIn the happier days when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown once made a rather good joke. During a speech at the party celebrating this newspaper's 20th anniversary, he confessed that at times he had been exasperated by...
Read moreIt has been something of a surprise to learn this week that we have just reached the end of the nice decade. The name of its predecessor, the me-decade, had made some sort of sense, but niceness hardly seems a...
Read moreThe prejudice has less to do with the music than the way its performer looks, or his views On the face of it, there are few sillier or unseemly sights in public life than a pop billionaire stroppily complaining that...
Read moreThe prejudice has less to do with the music than the way its performer looks, or his views On the face of it, there are few sillier or unseemly sights in public life than a pop billionaire stroppily complaining that...
Read moreYour partner in life is having an affair. Your children ignore you. The last time you went to a parents' evening, your son's teacher had difficulty remembering who he was. Your friends have discovered that misery can be catching and...
Read moreYour partner in life is having an affair. Your children ignore you. The last time you went to a parents' evening, your son's teacher had difficulty remembering who he was. Your friends have discovered that misery can be catching and...
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