My marmalade dropper of the week came after reading The Independent’s report into the staggering costs of taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which kicked off its 78th iteration yesterday.

Both are very different symbols of working class aspiration during the Blairite era of Cool Britannia largesse that saw all involved have it large. Oasis’s hungry anthem of excess, Cigarettes and ...

The warmth and wit that shines through McNair’s performance may be charming, but there is a profound insight too in his relating of matters of life and death. He has honed over the last decade to ...