Obituaries

Conversations with Mrs T The former Spectator editor ...

Boris Becker on life in jail When Boris ...

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

JOAN CRAWFORD’S career included more than 80 movies and an Oscar. She drew on life experience for her onscreen persona of a feisty woman striving to better herself, as her upbringing was tough. Born L

Leo Varadkar’s velvet rage As a politician, the ...

When Lorraine Denman, 57, exchanged late-night messages with her daughter, she could never have known it would be their last goodbye