She's a great sculptor, but this piece, made up of 14,000 casts of cardboard boxes arranged in towers, looks like something Selfridges would put in their atrium for Christmas shoppers.More horror! Alan Titchmarsh influential? Come off itSo Country Life succumbs to the craze for lists and publishes the 100 people who can influence what happens to our precious countryside. Great to see this paper's environment editor Geoffrey Lean in there, as well as Ramblers' Association chief executive Nick Barrett. Is anyone really influenced by duds like gas-guzzler Jeremy Clarkson or would-be actor Vinnie Jones? As for the appalling Alan Titchmarsh, I would have thought he epitomised everything tasteless about garden design. I know Country Life wants new readers, but really.Shock! Sharp, political drama found in alive West EndInteresting that the highly political plays of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) are packing theatres at a time when we're always hearing that the West End is full of musicals and froth. First Derek Jacobi triumphed in Don Carlos, and now the Donmar's brilliant translation of Mary Stuart has transferred to the Apollo Both plays had me spellbound. They are richly rewarding evenings and, judging by ticket sales, I'm sure there is a huge appetite in Britain for intelligent entertainment

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It may be that Mr Tony Blair will be remembered for two achievements. He left Britain a more repressive society than it had been when he became Prime Minister And he restored faith in the public- school system. Indeed, what Dr Arnold of Rugby was to the mercantile classes of the 19th century, Mr Blair of Fettes may turn out to be to the political classes of the 21st. Ask yourself this: if it had not been for the path hacked out by Mr Blair - even if it was a rediscovered path - would Mr David Cameron, an Etonian, now be the favourite to become leader of the Conservative Party? For 33 years, from 1964 to 1997, not one of our Prime Ministers had been educated at an independent, fee-paying school. For a slightly shorter period of 29 years, the same was true of Leaders of the Opposition. When Margaret Thatcher fell in 1990 and there was an election for the succession (then confined to MPs), one of the candidates, Douglas Hurd, suffered grievously from having been to Eton.

He was also the son of a Tory MP who had gone to the Lords and the grandson of an MP. More from Alan Watkins. Back from New Zealand for one day to try and remember the names of my children before heading off on another adventure. I'm in Beirut, about to embark on a mega-road trip through Lebanon and off into the depths of the Syrian desert. I used to do this trip a couple of times a year with my family when I was a kid. This time I'm doing it with my old friend Pete, who lives in Newfoundland We are also being filmed along the way for a TV documentary. Last night we ended up in the beautifully restored Solidaire district of downtown Beirut.