The lad’s second half

Forty years ago, football hooliganism was at its peak, causing outrage, fear and fatalities. How did the sport recover from its darkest days, and what happened to the men who belonged to the “firms”? Rosa Silverman reports

“I used to watch a lot of telly as a kid,” says Jarvis Cocker, relaxing on a sofa in the meeting room at Rough Trade Records HQ in Notting Hill. “It would give me a representation of the world that wa

Lee Mack is Britain’s wittiest man and creator of the longest-running sitcom currently on TV. But is the secret of his success down to comedy genes, the hyperfocus of ADHD – or meditation and sobriety?

Becoming an adult It’s three decades since Pulp’s ...

Margaret Thatcher’s administration had spent 1984 battling the miners and dismantling the coal industry. But with that fight almost won, as the clock ticked into the New Year, she had another of the U

...by the news that Piers Morgan has just been voted the UK’s sexiest man(!), knocking Jeremy Clarkson off the top spot after the farmer’s two previous wins. In the Illicit Encounters annual poll of 2