Patrick Kidd

You know you’re getting old when French prime ministers look young. Younger even than our teenage darts prodigies.As Gérard Araud, former French ambassador to the United States, remarked, if you add

The mad ambitions of the builders of the seven wonders of the world put us to shame. By Patrick Kidd

Movies to bring about world peace? Forecasters can get it right but are sometimes way off the mark

Berwick Kaler has delighted audiences in York since 1977. He told Patrick Kidd his stage secrets

With a general election on the horizon, Labour will soon be invited to discuss policies with civil servants. This has happened since the war but hasn’t always been appreciated. The Institute for

The FA’s first attempt to find a manager to replace Walter Winterbottom attracted 59 replies, a dozen of which were cranks – then Alf Ramsey offered his services

Despite spending the last 85 years of his life in America, Henry Kissinger always kept his German accent. The Times Diary reported in 1973 that the US secretary of state had opened a talk on

When Prince Edward was trying to make it in light entertainment, his first paid job was as a production assistant with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Company. Returning to the palace after his

The food critic Grace Dent, who has bailed out of I’m a Celebrity before the jellied wombat sphincter course, would prefer to expire on the BBC. “I want to die on MasterChef,” she told the latest

Hanif Kureishi was once named by this paper among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. We were probably not thinking of his pornography. Kureishi writes on