David Hepworth's blog

So now Fopp has gone out of business. This just a few days after HMV posted some poor results and Prince announced that his new album will ...

The Spice Girls reunion has been flagged up for nearly as long as the Blair/Brown handover. It's going to be announced later today, appa...

They've been discussing school mottos on "Today" following Gordon Brown's quoting his old one yesterday. My own grammar s...

Contemporary politicians are not known for their quick wits. They've had to think so hard about the career implications of anything they...

Years ago a female colleague pointed out to me that women who'd had facelifts tended to look perpetually surprised. If you're watchi...

There ought to be more radio like John Humphrys' series of reports on social mobility on this week's Today Programme. Humphreys is ...

You won't find an executive in British magazines who doesn't believe that in the near future 30% of publishing revenues will come fr...

Just been and got the son and heir from the tube station. Looked like he'd been paintballing for a month. Quote: "There were some g...

We have had one brief phone contact with our son since he left for Glastonbury on Thursday night. He was on a coach that was supposed to lea...

"Last Orders" the movie is, if anything, better than "Last Orders" the book. For a start you can keep track of the chara...

I've just noticed that the mission statement of BBC Worldwide, which is, they confess, "the commercial arm of the BBC", goes a...

Anthony Lane on Angelina Jolie in the current New Yorker : "Official estimates as to how many children Jolie now possesses, and from ho...

Most extraordinary outdoor musical event of the summer has to be Lovebox in Victoria Park. If the posters on the Tube are anything to go by...

Over at Word we're looking for examples of thing that would have been unimaginable twenty years ago. Examples? Shirley Bassey at Glasto...

There's always an evening out you've never had before. Last night Keith and I went to The Wheatsheaf in what used to be called Fitzr...

Five Live are asking listeners to vote for the key record of the Tony Blair era, illustrated by a picture of him playing the guitar left han...

This picture appears among the NME's coverage of the Muse shows at the weekend. The caption says "fans waiting for Muse". Did...

The Boy was out last night practising erecting his Glastonbury tent in the back garden. Today he will continue to comb London for size 10 we...

"He is known for collaborations with artists such as Pat Metheny and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead." That's the BBC websit...

"In 1997, Radiohead released OK Computer and, in one blow, killed Britpop." This is the banner headline on the BBC website this ev...