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Monday August 4, 2008

People

It’s one book for Dave, another 37 for the rest

David Cameron, the Tory leader, is going to have to try much harder if he wants to persuade voters that his party really does stand for 'fairness'. For while he has been spotted on the beach in Cornwall idling away with the newest James Bond book, Devil May Care, every... [continued]

Irshad Manji, Osama’s worst nightmare

Irshad Manji, a lesbian feminist Muslim and, say many, one of the bravest women alive, has revealed the horrors of the first time it sunk in how barbaric her own religion could be: she was aged 10 and her father was chasing her through the house with... [continued]

Hollywood turns on ‘home-wrecker’ Sienna as Getty drops her

The English actress Sienna Miller is being branded a 'home-wrecker' in Hollywood and has been warned that she is doing her career no favours after her love life has hit the headlines again. Barely three weeks ago, as The First Post reported, Miller (above), 26, was pictured topless on... [continued]

Crikey! Boris shocked by royal heritage

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has claimed that his ancestors include a slave in Russia and a Turkish government minister. Now, he has been revealed to be a direct descendant of the quarrelsome Hanoverian king, George II, albeit through illegitimacy. The connection, uncovered by... [continued]

Gwyneth urges expats to back Barack

The American actress, Gwyneth Paltrow, who was among the guests at a fundraising party in London, where she lives, for Barack Obama in April, is now fronting  a video encouraging American expats to "Vote Democrat. Vote Obama. Vote from Abroad." It is produced by Democrats Abroad... [continued]

Berlusconi makes a boob in attempt to cover up Truth

The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, no stranger at getting into scrapes with both women and the truth, has now been propelled into a cover-up involving both. In a move which has left his political opponents unsure whether to laugh or cry, he has had an embarrassing nipple removed.... [continued]

New work from late Russian dissident

Fans and enemies of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has just died, will not have to wait long for a new literary treasure from the dissident. American publishers have revealed that they are on the verge of bringing out the first unexpurgated edition in English of one of his great gulag... [continued]

In brief: Jolie and Pitt sell baby snaps for £7m

Has birthing ever been so profitable? Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Hollywood's current golden couple, have just signed a reported £7m deal for the first pictures of their new twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, who were born on July 12 in France. The desperate buyers? People magazine in the... [continued]

Angelina Jolie
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