But those about to do away with Fever Pitch and get it on with feather boas will very probably lack the innocence and urgency that characterised the first shot of Glam Rock, when there was “Concrete all around but not in our heads”, according to the aforementioned Glam anthem Glam took the Wildean epigram to [...]

“I totally agree with looking feminine – we all like skirts and blonde, long hair – but we want to be treated equally.” Eve Richards, 20, who plans to study law, says: “I like to look pretty and wear make-up and leather trousers, and I like to be treated with respect. I’d hate to be [...]

There is a world of difference between competence and genius, a fact that was driven painfully home to the European featherweight champion Billy Hardy when he challenged for Naseem Hamed’s World Boxing Organisation and International Boxing Federation world titles at the Nynex Arena here last night. Hamed needed just 93 seconds to wipe out Hardy’s [...]

Monaco’s general manager Henry Bianceri, whosaid last night that the French international would be on his way to Hillsborough in the summer.. It sounded like a familiar campaign warning from the red team Just five days to secure a Premiership future. A matter of hours to ensure Ravanelli, Juninho and Emerson do not pack their [...]

And change is what Gascoigne has to embrace and now.”He is about to play three club games in a short period of time and he has got to prove to me he wants to put some of the things right again,” said Hoddle. It begins with Motherwell at Ibrox tomorrow night, Dundee United away on [...]

The visitors, who finished second in the table, lost their England wing Jon Sleightholme, Scotland scrum-half Andy Nicol and Argentine hooker Federico Mendez through injuries during the match while the attacking presence of the rested England backs, Mike Catt and Jeremy Guscott, was also sorely missed. Saracens’ other tries came from Ireland’s Richard Wallace, his [...]

In 1945, it won a majority of 146 on almost 48 per cent, but in 1951 Labour won a higher percentage of votes – more than the Tories – and yet lost the election. A grown-up people entering the 21st century cannot be asked to put up with such absurd deformations of the popular will.What [...]

Mr Blair was interested in a workable synthesis of two doctrines, not principles, and the place he found people who understood this was in the communications industry – advertisers, journalists and television people – all of whom were alert to the power of marketing.That is the secret of Blair’s Camelot. It represents a combination of [...]

On Tuesday he will become the first vegetarian Mayor of Durham, wearing a specially “refurbished” fur-free robe for the ceremony. Previous incumbents have been proud to wear the musk-rat-trimmed gown, but Mr Griffin has had the offending animal skin removed and fluffy new fake fur stitched in its place. In a region of beef farmers [...]

This he does, but only to make her more miserable by his philandering; tragedy, predictably, ensues.No doubt there’s a moral here somewhere, but it’s hard to dig it out from a cluttered and tedious story. She forced her daughter, Ellie, into an unhappy marriage; and when the play opens, in 1979, Ellie’s daughter, the Mai, [...]