American footballers have shoulders artificially enlarged by statement armour; tailors in Naples don’t use shoulder padding, preferring a more easy-going look, flattering the body rather than exaggera

7 JANUARY

‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

This month sees the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s death. One of the most influential and pioneering musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries. This intelligent, articulate, witty, endearingly ecce

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers