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Feminist activist, Caroline Criado-Perez has been forced into hiding after getting death threats.
She was the angry, androgynous runaway who got chatted up by Ginsberg and had an affair with Mapplethorpe. At 66, Smith shows no sign of mellowing.
He is the former pimp married to his childhood sweetheart; the shrewd businessman who smokes 30 joints a day.
Since his coronation as King of Britart in the early 1990s, British artist Damien Hirst has never been short of self-belief, acclaim — or cash.
Marjane Satrapi gusts into the room like a hurricane. She is a tiny woman propped up on huge white platform heels.
Has there ever been a face quite as misleading as Lewis Hamilton’s? With the sweetest of smiles, pencil-thin sideburns and an almost hairless face, he looks like a cherub in…
There is nothing that reduces me to a howling baby more than an unlikely sporting triumph — Kelly Holmes staring at the screen unsure that she has won her first Olympic gold…
Is there a man in football with more responsibilities than Stephen Pressley? The Hearts and Scotland stalwart is not only a centre-back and captain (though the latter is…
A week ago many Manchester City fans regarded Bernardo Corradi as a goal-squandering mercenary who did a passable impression of Joe Jordan’s grandmother. And now? He is the king…
Monday morning, and the world shines anew. Grown men skip down the street, pensioners raise their walking sticks in solidarity, babies gurgle contentedly, unseasonal birds tweet…
So what exactly did Keano say to his players in the Inaugural Roy Keane Motivation Lecture? His Sunderland team were 1-0 down against Derby County at half-time. Was it something…
A group of Iraqi and English boys show their elders how to make peace. Clissold Park, Hackney, isn’t the obvious setting for an international peace conference. But here on an…
I’m drifting off at the Guardian Hay festival as Al Gore tells us how to save the planet — turn off the lights, cut down on private jet trips, listen to me, just about sums up…
Birmingham 0 Chelsea 0, and 10 minutes to go. I’m trying to distract myself. I run the bath, and then remember I’ve just had one. Pull at my flaking skin. Turn the radio off for…
”Many years ago when nowt but a little lad, as David Blunkett would have it, I used to find myself profoundly moved in the presence of Evonne Goolagong,” writes Simon…
Mick Jagger tells Simon Hattenstone about the names he got called in school, how he is struggling to put on weight — and being great in bed.
He’s the archetypal screen tough guy, but Al Pacino hates guns, drinks only coffee, writes Simon Hattenstone.
Eleven years ago Shane Warne had the record book in his sights. The leg- spinner had taken only 141 Test wickets when he said he intended to beat Kapil Dev’s record of 434. One…
Desmond Tutu is taking his off-Broadway debut in his stride. ”I’m just waiting for my Tony nominations now,” he says from his New York hotel. Tutu (72) is relaxing for a few…
Paul Gascoigne stares at the huge crowd curling round staircase after staircase at Waterstones in Newcastle city centre. He is here to sign copies of his autobiography.…
