Giles Hattersley, writing in today's Times, bemoans the inaccuracy of Wikipedia. Regular readers of this blog will know that I disagree completely but that's not why I'm writing. Giles writes: "My entry features at least two errors, one libellous (unless my mother has been keeping a dark secret, I am not Roy Hattersley's son)." Yet I can't find an entry for Giles Hattersley in Wikipedia. And, as Martin Belam points out, it doesn't look like there has ever been one.
At Sotheby’s on Tuesday an anonymous bidder bought a bull in a tank of formaldehyde for £10.3million. The world’s most expensive cut of beef was cooked up, inevitably, by the artist Damien Hirst, whose “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” sale of 223 new works fetched £111.5million, a record for an auction dedicated to one artist. The illustrious Australian art critic Robert Hughes, however, isn’t buying the hype.