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Cameron friend attacked by hoodies
Danny Kruger (pictured), Tory leader David Cameron’s former speechwriter and the man responsible for the 'compassionate' policy dismissed by Labour as "hug a hoodie", has been beaten up…by, er, hoodies. It happened last month while Kruger was in Camden with his wife. Seeing a gang of hooligans stealing a moped,... [continued]
Rosie deposes Agyness Deyn at Burberry
Agyness Deyn, 24, the supermodel model who was discovered working in a Lancashire fish and chip shop, has been dropped by Burberry in favour of a more aristocratic (and younger) mannequin, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. And there is no love lost between the pair, according to the Evening... [continued]
Lara Logan’s foreign affairs revealed
Lara Logan, CBS network’s Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent, appears to be taking her job title somewhat literally. The New York Post claims that while on assignment in Baghdad, she became embroiled in a “love triangle”, conducting simultaneous sexual relationships with CNN war reporter Michael Ware and a US contractor called... [continued]
Lucian Freud will not forgive Clement
It looks like Lucian Freud’s long-running feud with his brother Clement Freud, the former liberal MP, will go with him to the grave. The painter, who is approaching his 86th year, told the Daily Mail that he can’t bring himself to forgive his sibling for an allegation made more than... [continued]
Hail George, the peacemaker
That suave old popinjay George Clooney is attempting to broker a peace deal between the two warring actors’ unions involved in the threatened Hollywood strike, the American
Federation of Television & Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild. "At the risk of being yet another actor... [continued]
Clooney and Hanks clash over actors’ strike 
In brief: Paula Rego fights to save studio
Painter Paula Rego has enlisted the support of Tate Director Sir Nicholas Serota and sculptor Sir Anthony Caro to stop a new building development in Camden that threatens to block the light in her studio. Rego, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1989, said:... [continued]
Tony Blair played by James Bond
When author Robert Harris published The Ghost, a political thriller about the nefarious deeds of a former prime minister and his freebie-loving wife, many read it as a thinly veiled attack on his one-time friend, Tony Blair. If indeed that was the case, Blair can... [continued]
