“There was a time when Question Time maybe asked too many questions that were of a narrow interest. Now we take broader issues and try to make them more understandable and enjoyable. What counts is people who have opinions and who influence the opinions of the people at home,” he says.”Boy George generated a [...]

While Northolt’s results went up after opting for grant maintained status under the previous Conservative administration, Compton’s went down.Following the route then favoured in Whitehall, Northolt opted out to preserve its sixth-form status when Ealing wanted all secondary schools to be for children only up to 16, with pupils transferring to tertiary college for [...]

“Music is my life, not my profession.”He had come a long way from his beginnings in Novoalexandrovka, a small village in the Tartar republic where he was born in 1933, one of 12 children. By the age of four he was playing the balalaika, accordion and guitar. His elder brother Ivan, an air force [...]

He is said to have bought the truck which was loaded with explosives and detonated outside the embassy.. You’d never guess how interesting Italian ministers can be. Especially when their biographies have been translated into English by a computer with an eccentric sense of literary style. Lucio Stanca, the Minister for Innovation, is “conjugated [...]

“I had always planned to retire at 55,” he added.Mr Masters said the company had brought forward £10m of capital expenditure relating to its contract to supply power for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002 and the Fifa World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea. “This makes the real capex comparison [...]