PJ Harvey: ‘I feel things deeply. I get angry, I shout at the TV, I feel sick’
Polly Harvey opens up to Dorian Lynskey about 20 years in music and the emotions behind her latest dark masterpiece
Bridport: Good book, great film
The novelist Jonathan Coe on Bridport’s forthcoming film festival From Page to Screen.
Police pay review: ‘Cameron has declared war on the public sector’
Beaminster-based PC Clive Chamberlain describes how pay cuts, job closures and pensions curbs are denting police morale
PJ Harvey to be offered chance to become ‘official war song correspondent’
Imperial War Museum in London keen to work with Bridport singer following album featuring songs inspired by recent conflicts
Heston Blumenthal: ‘Ashley makes me feel like a proud dad’
Dorset-born chef Ashley Palmer-Watts is to launch a new restaurant in London for Heston Blumenthal. Mr Palmer-Watts was originally a protege of Maiden Newton restaurant owners Geoff and Lin Chapman.
Billy Bragg: Are you ready for the revolution?
Billy Bragg and his guitar have been summoning us to the barricades for the past three decades, and today he’s more hopeful for real change than ever before