This is the piece I wrote for the last edition of The Independent on Sunday, which closed forever on Saturday 19 March 2016. Hope triumphs over anger just about … So here we are. This is the end, beautiful friends, and I have to say I’m angry. Not angry at the end of this title’sContinueContinue reading “A Time For Anger”
Author Archives: Cole Moreton
So long, and thanks for all the laughs: Terry Wogan’s last interview
Ah, Sir Terry. The old gent. I went to interview him at home last year and he was every bit as charming as you might hope. The piece appeared in October and sadly it turns out to have been his last interview. The conversation was surprisingly candid, we did talk about his own end becauseContinueContinue reading “So long, and thanks for all the laughs: Terry Wogan’s last interview”
Eddie The Eagle Flies Again
The inside story of how a man who risked his life for a dream – but was seen as a joke – became the subject of an inspiring film. ‘I remember Eddie the Eagle as a bit of a joke,’ says Dexter Fletcher, the actor turned director who admits that at first he didn’t really want toContinueContinue reading “Eddie The Eagle Flies Again”
Inside Yarl’s Wood
Yarl’s Wood detention centre is a secretive but notorious place where people are held without charge for year after year, not knowing what is going to happen to them. They often crack. The only way to find out what was going on in there was to go in myself. It wasn’t easy.
Face To Face With The Body Of Nelson Mandela
“Go to see the body of Nelson Mandela lying in state,” the editor of the Sunday Telegraph said. “Tell us what it all means.” What was it like? Overwhelming.
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