News about Anthony Burgess

The Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead, southeast London, was featured in the film adaptation of Anthony Burgess dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange 50 years ago. But today, residents feel disregarded after Bexley Council gave outline planning permission to the Peabody housing association in October 2022 to replace 816 current homes with 2,778 new ones. Charlie Johnson, 52, who lives on the estate, said the homes were only designed to last for 30 years, yet are now pushing 50.'

In the aftermath of Russell Brand's ever-expanding slew of allegations directed at him, JENNI MURRAY rescheduled an interview with him that aired on Woman's Hour on November 13, 2007.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has branded the initiative to combat unlawful immigration as immoral, but it falls short of offering a positive alternative, prompting the government to do more to assist Ukrainian refugees last year. Despite grand quarters at Lambeth Palace and his Canterbury Old Palace, there is no sign of Justin giving up a room or two for homeless Ukrainians. During the 2016 Syrian refugee crisis, he did house a Syrian family in a'spare' four-bedroom cottage in Lambeth, but two years later, they were forced to move forward. Life in Lambeth was not'suitable' for a refugee family, according to an episcopal mouthpiece, whatever that means.

Richard E. Grant has spoken out about the time his father fired a gun at him when he returned from a trip to the theater. As a youth in Swaziland, now known as Eswatini, the actor, 65, remembered the frightening moment his parent took a shot at him in a fit of rage. Despite the film's 18 rating, he crept out of the house at the age of 15 to see A Clockwork Orange at the theater.

SHIRLEY CONRAN: My mother told me that having money was rude for a woman. We were middle-class with no financial worries - my father had a dry-cleaning business, but she didn't have to give my two sisters or me pocket money. Husbands didn't want wives who were too concerned about financial matters. I realized this was just another way of keeping women short of money – and therefore power – as I grew up; it sparked a rash of anger in me that persists today; in the week of my 90th birthday, the topic of women and wealth has me fuming; My campaigning spirit is as good as when I led a flaming, torchlit march of 700 women to No. 10 in 1969, demanding equal pay. The Equal Pay Act of 1970 was the result. I spent 30 years learning about money; two years in post-divorce penury; 20 years on a single overarching cause - improving women's lives. I want women to get richer and stay richer. Some may find this objectionable; we are also allergic to the idea of women earning a lot of money.