Kenneth Williams

Disqualified driver jailed over high-speed Garda pursuit Kenneth Williams (38) drove on footpath and against oncoming traffic during chase, court heard

How we made Viz: ‘We printed 150 copies for £42.52’‘We had touched on something: genuine schoolboy humour had never been put on paper before’

The Irish Times view on Austria’s embattled leader: provocations and self-pity As the pressure at home builds, the chancellor has found populist proxy battles elsewhere

Barbara Windsor: The daring, giggling pearly queen of the screen The actor should be remembered for a significant body of work in cinema, theatre and TV

The Gaeltacht was basically a sex camp established by Éamon de Valera Patrick Freyne: Lovesick individuals are treated a little differently in First Dates Hotel

‘I am appalled at my own generation leaving things in such a mess’Still feisty and busy at 85, Sheila Hancock remains connected to the zeitgeist

Al Porter: ‘After wild sex with a priest, I realised the priesthood was not for me’A stand-up who has seen the darkness talks frankly about depression, sexuality and class

Pride and the pits: when gay rights met the striking miners New movie Pride celebrates the unlikely meeting of Britain’s striking miners and gay rights campaigners in the 1980s. Poverty, homophobia, Aids and the defeat of the miners provide an unlikely backdrop. Donald Clarke takes pride in a cultural rebellion

Screenwriter: What’s the bloody point?The end is nigh, but sequels live forever

Television culture accepted gay performers by denying the fact that they were gay Opinion: Viewers persuaded themselves that camp behaviour was ‘just an act’

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