Robbie Griffiths
Robbie Griffiths is on the features and comment desks. He was previously editor of the historic Londoner's Diary column, covering politics, culture and society. At the weekend he moonlights as an editor and London voice for US radio station NPR....
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Robbie Griffiths is on the features and comment desks. He was previously editor of the historic Londoner's Diary column, covering politics, culture and society. At the weekend he moonlights as an editor and London voice for US radio station NPR.
Diane Abbott: from first black female MP to shunned by Labour
Will she, won’t she? The Hackney MP is causing ruptures within the Labour party. Robbie Griffiths charts her remarkable — and often rocky — political career
Behind the scenes at the Stones launch, as the band plan a documentary
We hear the band were set to play live, but changed the plan late on
Actor Brian Cox: put ‘senile’ Donald Trump in a nice little home
Cox also railed against ‘vicious’ cancel culture
Rory Stewart: Boris is a ‘prancing elephant’ and I might vote Lib Dem
Stewart also said Tory rule changes mean he won’t run for London mayor
Richard Osman: the TV quiz industry is ‘sort of collapsing’
It’s Pointless to work on a quiz today, thinks the TV man turned author
David Bowie’s daughter Lexi launches her first fashion range
Alexandria Zahra Jones has explained how making art has helped her mental health
As fights and heckling hit London shows, are audiences out of control?
Police were called to the Grease musical, while fights are reported at the Crucible
Ricky Gervais: I prefer stand-up to TV because they can’t censor me
The comedian says he would ‘be quite happy’ to do no more TV work
British Museum ‘must work on better catalogue to stop more theft’
More than 1,500 items have reportedly been taken from the Museum over 20 years
Fury as Grenfell councillor plugs psychedelics firm in piece on grief
Rock Feilding-Mellen has written about how taking magic mushrooms helped him with pain over the fire
Chelsea owner’s revamp plan puts us at risk, warns medical centre
Stadium plans could leave 6,500 patients ‘without a GP’
The rest is Lineker: he strikes gold as a podcast mogul
Media Watch: As BBC bosses found earlier this year: don’t underestimate Gary Lineker
‘Near fight’ at the Royal Albert Hall over noisy Proms popcorn
Classical music fans say the newly sold snack is disrupting concerts
BBC’s new own-goal as Gary Lineker and MOTD colleagues start podcast
The Beeb won’t make a penny from their highest-paid star’s football podcast with Alan Shearer and Micah Richards
Armando Iannucci’s new Covid play will be stranger than fiction
The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci will have audiences ‘reliving the horror’
Confusion reigns for new Marvel star Emma Corrin over film plots
Corrin has said that joining the complex franchise was ‘an absolute mind-f***’
Ex-Labour MP to run against party in Kensington
‘Where’s the compassion in the Labour party? It’s gone,’ she said
Wanted: new director at crumbling British Museum
Staff tell us the Museum is ‘visibly falling down’
Chef Thomas Straker starts diversity row over his kitchen staff
The chef, who got famous on social media, told people to ‘calm down’
Starmer hopes to raise the tone and ‘rise above’ gutter politics
It would be a volte-face for Labour following harsh attack ads in Spring