Richard Godwin is Assistant Arts Editor at the Evening Standard, and writes a column every Tuesday about things like kicking people on the tube. Sometimes he does pop reviews. He is a regular contributor to the Literary Review and the London Review of Breakfasts. As a performer of melodramatic popular song, he is also a minor figure on the London scene: see my MySpace site. You can contact him on richard.godwin@standard.co.uk if you want.