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Voices: The Top 10 Algernons
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 years agoThis list was Robert Hutton’s idea, after I had been inspired by Algernon Newton, the artist described by Steve Edmonds as “England’s Canaletto”, to do a...
Voices: The Top 10 extinct girls’ names
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 years agoThis all started when I came across the work of Algernon Newton, who painted wonderful pictures of London houses and English landscapes. Even by 1943,...
Voices: The Top 10 longest-reigning British monarchs
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 years agoI first published this list seven years ago, when Elizabeth II overtook Victoria. Now it is time to close the book on the top of the league table. 1....
Voices: The Top 10 fake George Orwell quotations
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 years agoThis list is guest-edited by Benedict Cooper, freelance journalist and trustee of the Orwell Society, who wrote an article for the i newspaper about the...
Voices: The Top 10 most powerful people ever
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 years agoThis one started when Janan Ganesh wrote in the Financial Times that President Harry Truman in mid-1945 was “the most powerful human being who has ever...
