“We are talking about making commitment.”Thirty years ago gays rioted for rights. These days, Larkin suggests, their aspirations lie in the suburbs with a mini-van and kids, leaving inner city gay enclaves and rubbing shoulders with straight parents at Little League baseball and toddler playgroups. But Frank and other gay thinkers, even as they circle [...]

Working hard for something by yourself is always more rewarding than baa-ing along with the crowd.Luckily, although the most delightful marriages of ancient monuments and everyday life tend to be found in India or Egypt, Libya and Syria, Cuba and Mexico, Yemen and Guatemala, something of the same experience can be had much closer to [...]

But a substantial blow to the value of small investors’ holdings could prove a blow to the entire economy.Full story, page 16Comment page, 17. The trigger for Wall Street’s slide is the fear that the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, might soon raise interest rates to prevent the booming economy from stoking inflationary fires. A [...]

US researchers think these procedures may trigger chemical changes in some patients which prevent healing. Because the condition so often goes undiagnosed it is difficult to estimate the number of sufferers, although one specialist has put the number at close to a million worldwide.In the past, oil-based dyes were used for myelograms but these were [...]

None of “her girls” goes into labour without knowing exactly what is happening, or may happen, to them. She hates the tag but it’s an accurate job description: her 80th birthday party in October last year was held in St James’s Palace, with personal permission of the Queen, with Prince Charles was among the guests.From [...]

Copying a graffito from a Surrey tombstone, he repeats the scrawl with subtle variations and, in so doing, declares his artistic autonomy.
That this raises complex aesthetic questions on the nature of art suggests that there is more to Parsons than we might expect from the current crop of British neo-conceptualists. Take a closer look and [...]