Profiles

Rihanna: Out for revenge

Saturday, 24 September 2011

Back from a personal trauma that left her literally in the gutter, the R&B star has a new album, a UK tour and a role in a blockbuster movie

Louise Wilson: 'As much as I might decry the students it is a privilege to be among youth'

Saturday, 24 September 2011

On the eve of Central Saint Martins moving into its new £200m home, Susannah Frankel meets Louise Wilson, fashion's most influential educator

My secret life: Nick Knight, fashion photographer, 52

Saturday, 24 September 2011

'I don't think the term 'fashionable' should exist.' Interview by Charlotte Philby

Jamie Jones-Buchanan: Ticking the boxes as jack of all trades

Friday, 23 September 2011

Politics, gardening, keeping chickens – the Leeds man leads a varied life away from the pitch. He has even interviewed one of tonight's opposition, he tells Dave Hadfield.

Sienna Miller: Hacking's heroine

Friday, 23 September 2011

The actress breaks her silence to tell Jemima Khan about the paranoia that led to accusations against her family, and why she had to make a stand.

Glen Chapple: 'I was determined not to cry. I thought, I am not going down that route'

Friday, 23 September 2011

Lancashire's modest and victorious captain tells Brian Viner how it feels to end a 77-year quest for the county title.

Louis Smith: 'I'm in pain every day but what feels like punishment is how you improve'

Thursday, 22 September 2011

His bronze in Beijing was a major breakthrough for British gymnastics. Now, he tells Richard Rae, the pressure is on for 2012.

Mike Bisping: From the abattoir to America

Thursday, 22 September 2011

The family man swapped the slaughterhouse for cage fighting, finding fame across the Atlantic in the violent phenomenon of MMA, writes Glenn Moore.

Abi Morgan: Meet Britain's busiest writer

Thursday, 22 September 2011

As Abi Morgan works on films, plays and series two of The Hour, she talks to Jo Caird about the most intense year of her professional life

Why Catholics could learn a lot from Islam

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, sings the praises of Ramadan – and reflection – to Jerome Taylor

'Cuts are hurting Newsnight. The BBC lacks can-do spirit'

Monday, 19 September 2011

Michael Crick tells Ian Burrell why he had to leave Paxman & co after 19 years.

Lives Remembered: Professor Joyce Youings:

Monday, 19 September 2011

Danny Alexander: Somewhere in the middle, and out in front

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Matt Chorley: He wields huge influence as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and is one of Nick Clegg's closest allies.

Frank Oz: 'I still lie when cab drivers ask me what I do'

Sunday, 18 September 2011

You can't understand what makes a cult phenomenon or someone would bottle it.

How We Met: Carmen Dell'Orefice & David Downton

Sunday, 18 September 2011

'She was in curlers and a facepack... She said, "You're lucky I've got anything on"'

Roller coaster Ryder is on the way up, again

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Andrew McCorkell: The Happy Mondays front man has crawled from the wreckage with a book and a new album.

Nicola Roberts: Surviving teen stardom

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Hugh Montgomery: the porcelain pop princess' first solo album should finally silence the critics.

Gary Oldman: The spy who brought the cold with him

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Demetrios Matheou: The actor brings a sinister presence to 'the Circus' as the new George Smiley.

Nick Clegg: 'Governments spend £700bn a year. You can do a lot with that'

Saturday, 17 September 2011

As his party conference begins, the Deputy Prime Minister tells Andrew Grice the Coalition should be making headlines for much more than cuts.

John le Carré: The spy master

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Boyd Tonkin: An acclaimed big-screen adaptation of his best-known work is bringing a new generation of admirers.

Golden girl: Natalie Dormer

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Gerard Gilbert: The least surprising thing to happen in Venice this month has not been a tourist going slack-jawed at the price of a gondola ride, or at least one Bellini cocktail being sunk in Harry’s Bar, but that, at the city’s annual film festival, Madonna’s new film should have been widely panned. Widely but not universally, for while its harshest critic (from The Guardian) dismissed her Wallis Simpson biopic, WE, as "a primped and simpering folly", The Independent's man on the Lido, Geoffrey Macnab, found much to admire in Madonna's second turn behind the camera – noting that, while "the film is no masterpiece... many in Venice were anticipating (and some actively hoping) for a prize turkey and they'll have been disappointed by the sheer zest and craftsmanship of WE."

My Secret Life: Jason Isaacs, actor, 48

Saturday, 17 September 2011

My parents were... so thrilled when I finally played a part keeping my clothes on. Almost all plays I was in at university involved shouting, screaming, being naked, and sexual acts.

Gary Neville: 'The idea he is always ready to let someone have it, is wrong'

Saturday, 17 September 2011

After two decades working with him, the pundit tellsIan Herbert there is so much more to Sir Alex Ferguson than 'the hairdryer.'

McGovern down the middle on derby day

Saturday, 17 September 2011

He was a key midfielder in the glory days for Clough at Derby and Forest. Now he tells Phil Shaw the rivals lack confidence and cash.

Oscar Pistorius: 'They hid my legs and set my bed on fire. It was a great joke'

Thursday, 15 September 2011

The world's most famous Paralympian just wants to be treated the same as everyone else. He tells Brian Viner why.