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Mayor Boris plots against Sir Ian Blair
It appears Boris Johnson has been making moves to remove Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police commissioner. Ostensibly this is because of Blair's links with a
businessman who won £3m of Scotland Yard contracts, currently the subject of an inquiry, but the London Mayor has made little secret of his... [continued]
Give public the power to judge the police 
Nice rhymes, shame about the machete
Blairs leave for five week holiday
The Browns are in Suffolk and the Camerons in Cornwall. Tony and Cherie Blair, however, have more exotic plans for their summer holidays. On Wednesday they jetted out from Heathrow
(first class, of course) for a vacation that will take in Malaysia, China and France and last... [continued]
The Mole: Miliband tests Brown
Gordon Brown heads to the seaside
Carla Bruni sees herself as the heir to Jackie Onassis
Carla Bruni has come clean – she is styling herself on Jackie Onassis, the late wife of John F Kennedy, rather than on France’s first post-war First
Lady, Yvonne de Gaulle, who was once photographed ladling out soup to the poor. All is revealed in an interview... [continued]
Bruni reveals bedroom spat with minister
Carla Bruni is new Marie Antoinette
Carla Bruni sings of 30 lovers
In brief: Sienna movie postponed
Filming of a new Robin Hood film, Nottingham, which stars Russell Crowe and Sienna Miller, has been postponed - because the leaves in Sherwood Forest will not be the right colour. Ridley Scott, the film’s director, had been due to start shooting this autumn, but that was... [continued]
Simon Gray savages Nick Hytner over Islam
Simon Gray (pictured), the playwright and memoirist, has launched a biting attack on the National Theatre’s esteemed but touchy creative director, Nicholas Hytner. In an interview with this month’s Standpoint magazine, Gray pans the National for taking a pussy-footed attitude to Islam while being "fearless" towards easy... [continued]
Rushdie is bookies’ favourite to win this year’s Booker
Salman Rushdie (pictured with Michelle de Kretser) has already won the Best of the Booker award, judged by the public earlier this year. Now he’s odds-on
favourite to win this year’s Man Booker prize for his latest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, following the release today of the longlist for... [continued]
Coppers locked Rushdie in a cupboard
Salman tries to scratch his acting itch
Naomi Campbell misses scoop
Naomi Campbell’s latest foray into political journalism for GQ – she has already interviewed the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez (pictured with the
supermodel) for the magazine – has provided stimulating results. The south London model's subject this time was Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the chic Argentine President,... [continued]
BA considers suing Campbell for libel
Call for Puccini’s body to be exhumed
The commemorations to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini are going to be lively. A woman from Pisa, Nadia Manfredi, has come forward claiming that she is the granddaughter of the maestro, a claim that is rebutted by the better-known... [continued]
