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Life & Society
Diary - Jacques Attali
- 24 April 2006
When I hear the Brits bashing the weaknesses of the French, I wonder why so few French people buy houses in the British countryside, while so many Britons do so in France
Diary - Richard Eyre
- 17 April 2006
Has there ever been a more solipsistic cry from the postwar years than that of Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger: "There aren't any good, brave causes left"?
Diary - Maureen Dowd
- 10 April 2006
- 1 comment
The woman disappeared from view in the second act, save for glimpses of the crown of her head. At the interval, a stranger asked drily if we were enjoying the show
Diary - Charles Glass
- 03 April 2006
I have been a week late for nuptials, a week early for birthdays; and occasional dinners with friends and lovers went awry because of my dyscalculia and unreliable memory
Diary - Billy Bragg
- 27 March 2006
As I stuff my dirty laundry into a plastic bag I wonder: is it possible to go commando for a day, most of which will be spent flying to Minneapolis for a show tonight?
Diary - Helena Kennedy
- 20 March 2006
- 1 comment
I rush to the Lords to vote against identity cards, to the consternation of some on my own benches. It amazes me that people do not see how pernicious this legislation is
Diary - George Alagiah
- 13 March 2006
One dinner guest is hoarding fuel for his Primus stove. "The power will be the first thing to go," he says, with a confidence that leaves me wondering
Diary - Linda Grant
- 06 March 2006
I have discovered that Alastair Campbell is one of the sexiest men in Britain: the eyes, the size, the thighs. "You and a thousand other women in the Labour Party," said a baroness
Diary - Mark Ellen
- 27 February 2006
Kanye West delivers the most expensive four-minute performance I've ever seen in my life, with 77 women mostly wearing gold paint. He then exits vertically in a hydraulic cage
Life & Society
Diary - Julian Clary
- 20 February 2006
The fishy offerings at the New Statesman lunch were even harder to stomach than the gloomy topics up for debate. Now, if only Terry Wogan had been there . .









