FamilyCould an ‘outrageously heterosexual’ father handle his eldest child coming out at 16?
Sam Khalaf and his son Riyadh used to call themselves the two musketeers. When Riyadh was growing up in Bray, south of Dublin, they were inseparable. Like twins or best friends, they say. So the Iraqi-born, Irish citizen remembers keenly the moment when he realised his eldest child had drifted from him.
“We used to go everywhere together,” 54-year-old Sam recalls. Read More...
FamilyEric Lomax's book, The Railway Man, about his experience as a Japanese prisoner of war has inspired a major new film. But his first family were written out of the story by Lomax himself. Joanna Moorhead talks to his daughter, CharmaineWatch The Railway Man, which goes on general release in the new year, and you'll leave the cinema feeling you know all about the complicated, scarred individual at its centre: Eric Lomax, who was tortured by the Japanese during the second world war and eventually rescued from his torment through the love of his wife Patti. Read More...
OpinionConservatives This article is more than 2 years oldBritain’s overgrown Eton schoolboys have turned the country into their playgroundThis article is more than 2 years oldJohn HarrisThe reckless disdain of Boris Johnson and David Cameron is evidence of the institutional elitism blighting our politics
Over the past fortnight, the news from Westminster has rather resembled a weird play about pre-revolutionary France, or Tsarist Russia circa 1916.
In some parts of the country, the rate of unemployment runs at 15%. Read More...
