ONE summer’s afternoon in 2007, a class of unruly 15-year-olds cascaded into a battered classroom at William Ellis School, Highgate, to the news we were getting our third English teacher of the year.

The premise of Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play is simple – it’s about love and infidelity. Henry (James McArdle), a successful playwright, leaves his wife Charlotte (Susan Wokoma) to live with another ...

MARK Rosenblatt, better known as a director, makes his writing debut with this nuanced and layered play about Roald Dahl (John Lithgow), the beloved, irascible children’s author. Bearing an uncanny ...

TWO young meteors of the ruling Labour group at the Town Hall have been elevated to the council cabinet. New Camden leader Richard Olszewski was left with two holes to fill in his executive after his ...

ONE of the capital’s best known private club chains has got the all clear to “double” its numbers, a few months after opening up a new venue. Councillors approved the expansion at Soho House’s latest ...

A POPULAR restaurant in Hampstead has closed after 14 years in the High Street. Côte Brasserie is being replaced by the Giggling Squid, a group of Thai food restaurants from Brighton. Angela Cooper, a ...

YOU don’t need to be a fan of a particular artist or genre to find some fascinating tales, and Q&As in the selection of movies curated by this year’s Doc ’n Roll Film Festival. The subjects covered by ...

THEIR country had been overrun by Nazi Germany, their armed forces destroyed, cities reduced to rubble and civilians murdered. For many Polish people the defeat in September 1939 was the catalyst for ...

• WE at the Forge have read the letter from the Delancey Street Residents’ Association (Our concern over club licence, December 28) and would like to assure them the that Forge is a well-run venue, ...

READERS may recall Rob Jenrick urging people to “get out there and not waste the summer” on a ministerial visit to the Belsize Village “streatery” during the Covid pandemic. The visit was promo­ting ...

HUNDREDS of ‘public order officers’ were standing by last night (Wednesday) as the Met prepared for reports that rioting might reach London boroughs. And senior officers urged parents to play a role ...

• I AM naturally cheered by our MP Sir Keir’s great fathering skills in making available an alternative study space for his son to save him from an intrusive media scrum in the run-up to his GCSEs ...