Keir Starmer is unveiling his Strategic Defence Review with great fanfare. It has been billed as a 'root and branch review' of our military policy, pointing the way to 'a new era for defence'.
It's often wearing to be the Beatles ' biographer. Such is the enduring fascination of the Fab Four that at parties, rather like a doctor, I try to keep my occupation a secret, writes PHILIP NORMAN.
In Clapton's 60-year career he has survived the double whammy of heroin addiction and alcoholism that often left him incapable of doing anything on stage other than lie flat on his back.