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Murdoch comes out for ‘rock star’ Obama
When The First Post reported Elisabeth Murdoch’s starry London fund-raiser for Barack Obama in early April, New York gossips wondered whether her choice of
Obama over Hillary Clinton would herald a similar decision from her father, Rupert Murdoch (pictured). Now, it seems, they have their answer: stopping short
of offering... [continued]
Murdoch party casts doubt on Clinton 
Boris tells press: leave those kids alone
Despite assembling his four children before the press on the night of his election as mayor of London, Boris Johnson has made it clear that his family is strictly off-limits with
regards to the press. Yesterday, his office lodged a stiff complaint with the Press Complaints Commission after the Londonpaper,... [continued]
Boris governs London from yacht in Turkey
Bill Murray facing messy divorce
Bill Murray, star of Sophia Coppola’s Oscar-winning film Lost in Translation, has been accused of drug abuse, sex addiction and physical violence in divorce papers issued by his wife, Jennifer Butler Murray (left, with Murray and Coppola). The claims, which have been made in court papers filed... [continued]
In Brief: Lady T snapped by Testino
Lady Thatcher, 82, has posed for a series of photographs in Vogue magazine by Mario Testino who has tried – with some success – to soften the Iron Lady’s image. Lady T tells the magazine that, despite suffering a series of minor strokes, she is still a... [continued]
Brown resorts to working the phones
Gordon Brown, whose personal popularity is now the same as former Tory PM John Major's at its lowest point, has taken the drastic step of cold-calling voters who have written to him at Downing Street. According to PR Week, the Prime Minister is calling as many as a dozen people... [continued]
In Town: Chapmans’ hellish party
With their unnerring understanding of how to garner publicity, and apparently working on the same principle as numerous TV companies – that anything with Nazis in it sells - the Chapman
brothers unveiled their latest show, If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be, at the White... [continued]
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Hitler the watercolourist wasn't bad
Naipaul to Hay:
you’re all ugly
Some say the Hay Literary Festival is not what it was and is becoming too populist: this year's star turns included Cherie Blair, Jeremy Clarkson and the Welsh opera
singer Katherine Jenkins. Now the prickly Nobel laureate VS Naipaul (pictured) has spoken out, claiming that it is time the annual... [continued]
Walcott lampoons Naipaul
Earl of Devon bans gay marriages
The Earl of Devon (pictured with his wife, Diana) has caused outrage among the gay community by banning same-sex wedding ceremonies from his stately home, Powderham Castle, claiming that such unions are at variance with his Christian faith. Explaining his decision yesterday, Lord Devon said: "I am a Christian and... [continued]
