Home is where the heart is. Scotland shattered England’s lofty ambition of a Triple Crown, let alone a Grand Slam, with one of their periodic and utterly inspired displays against the auld enemy. The odds on favourites for the Six Nations’ Championship monopolised position and possession, which was not unexpected What they could not cater [...]

Some early interchange play, often involving Josh Lewsey, augured well But England could not sustain it.. A Guinness advertising line used to proclaim “good things come to those who wait” and Jerry Flannery is living proof. It has been a fair while since he was a teenager pulling pints of the black stuff in his [...]

Here, we tend to think of it as complicated, and even a little scary. It’s a hard, pungent-smelling, musty thing that resembles a piece of leather. What on earth, are we meant to do with it?
I realise, what with issues of over-fishing, that cod is a potential minefield, but I believe that the [...]

Outside the shit-stem is a real SEX PISTOL.”The Sex Pistols’ former bass player, Glen Matlock, told The Independent on Sunday yesterday it had been a unanimous decision by the band to steer clear. “It’s nothing to do with the bands – it’s all to do with business When I first heard about it I was [...]

Hayley Atwell’s Bianca is only moments from a desperate, searing death. Also making his RSC debut, as Bianca’s first husband Leantio, Elliot Cowan moves strikingly from newly-wed buoyancy to bereft pain. Middleton’s sympathies lay palpably with that non-aristocratic, wounded young man, and Cowan articulates his thoughts in verse with clear intelligence.
Boswell’s production, like the play, [...]