That smells horrible, he says, but it do get you a place at the bar.. WITH commendable ambition, the Tate Gallery has devised an exhibition of contemporary art that aims to define issues of life and death at the end of the 20th century “Rites of Passage” is, physically, a large show. It gives more [...]

THE IMPRESSIONISTS and Post-Impressionists are our new old masters: the painters everybody loves to love. Their works are exhibited and re- exhibited; posters, diaries, and books of reproductions flow unceasingly from the presses. And you might think that there were no surprises left in the sunlit fields of Monet, Renoir et Cie But you would [...]

Kate is a student who knows about bands so cool I have never heard of them; but, much to my surprise, she admitted that Justine Frisch- mann had invaded her subconscious too.”I dreamt about her not long ago,” said Kate. “We met in Primrose Hill, and I went back to her house, and she talked [...]

In the mid-Seventies they pretended to belong to the mid-Fifties, so in the mid-Nineties, there’s no reason not to pogo wildly to an equivalent pretence.Even after watching Wet Wet Wet in a sweat sweat sweat-drenched Wembley Arena I find it hard to understand their appeal – beyond Marti Pellow that is, who has the teenage [...]

We’ve run well in these races but I’ve never gone in there with a horse that’s remotely been a favourite. When you go for these races you’ve got to have some pretty serious tackle.”It is difficult to disparage Gosden in this area (or any other once he unfolds his well-spread 6ft 5in frame). As he [...]

With a new determination to drive ahead towards the single European currency being reported from France and Germany, the British view is sliding into irrelevance. Central bank governors meet in Frankfurt today, followed by ministers who are trying to get an agreement by the end of the year on the switch to new notes and [...]

But, she adds, advertisers are fully aware of the need for quality programming and do not want to jeopardise this.Even the programme-makers – traditionally those most likely to eschew any contact with commerce – are waking up to the potential of advertiser funding. The Action Time chairman, Stephen Leahy, recently had a new game show [...]

I won’t apologise for our success.”Mission headquarters is a small office building in Farringdon, central London. Greenpeace International, which co-ordinates the individual Greenpeace groups in 30 nations, is based in Amsterdam but Greenpeace Communications is based in one of the world’s top five media cities.Mr Titchen is one of seven executive directors of Greenpeace International. [...]

“With something this rare, specialists have seen few cases, and we hoped it would become a centre of excellence,” she says The clinic did more than that. “Finding the A-T gene was more important than just finding a gene for a rare disease; it would teach us more about the fundamentals of biology,” says Sandy [...]

The huge head of steam building up behind the sector is being driven by hopes that British Biotech, the acknowledged leader, will announce later this month that the latest tests on Marimastat are positive and bring it closer to the market. Prices are being maintained by wildly optimistic claims from certain brokers. Last month, for [...]