Being Geoff Dyer may have its rocky patches, but the world is a far more entertaining place when seen through his eyes.. I took a job in the summer as a door-to-door salesman offering potential customers burglar alarm systems. Each day my boss dropped me off at a “target rich area” and I had [...]

In 1974, after becoming disenchanted with life in the United States, she moved to Barbados and began a nomadic lifestyle that took her to the Netherlands and Paris before settling in the south of France. In an interview in 1998 she blamed racism in the United States for her decision to live abroad, saying [...]

But Mr Galloway, who says all the incriminating documents are forgeries, is categorical in insisting that “I have never asked Iraq for money to help our campaign. [It] was funded by private donations and governmental donations friendly to Britain and the United States.” He also says he has never asked anyone in the regime [...]

The Twentieth Century Society’s publication Farewell My Lido tells the story in more detail.Can Broomhill Open Air Pool survive? It may if its supporters can get Heritage Lottery funding to bolster the £3m or so that sits in the council’s provisional 10-year budget for the pool. But will the council even give the campaigners [...]

“I suspect his successor will have to fight some battles to prevent cutbacks.”Fighting battles is a regular activity on the newspaper, whether with Cherie Blair, Ken Livingstone or Gerhard Schr?. But will its aggressive energy wane without the nuclear reactor of Mr Dacre?. Not since the public disgrace of Neil and Christine Hamilton have [...]

“These four had a life of privilege mapped out – they glided effortlessly from quadrangle to quadrangle .. at Eton, Cambridge and the Foreign Office. Because they wore the right tie and knew the right people, they were never rumbled. Nobody every suspected that ‘one of us’ could possibly be a traitor.”The first part [...]

The term “fat cat” was widely bandied about as executives from utilities – such as BT, British Gas and Yorkshire Water – enjoyed massive pay rises after privatisations in the late 1980s. Attempts to bring better controls in the boardroom started with the Cadbury Report in 1992, and strict guidelines for executive contracts were [...]

As the economist William Seidman, a Greenspan friend dating back to Ford administration days, put it, “He has the best bedside manner I’ve ever seen. He’s very non-confrontational, but also very good at persuading people.”But has Greenspan outstayed his welcome? In retrospect, he should have quit in 2000, when the economy was booming and [...]

Some people have even said that James Anderson of Lancashire could be cricket’s David Beckham Just don’t tell the celebrity magazines.. Tuning in to Desert Island Discs the other morning, I heard Rory Bremner say that, until four years ago, he did not really know who he was Perhaps I can help. I knew [...]

You won’t find that statistic in the league tables, but it is a figure that should be carved into the shrivelled heart of every monstrous free marketeer whose obsession with competition, targets and testing has created a culture in which more than half of our seven-year-olds suffer symptoms of anxiety including insomnia, appetite loss, [...]