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How Decca got her Darling scoop
Did Alistair Darling intend to shake the foundations of Westminster with his interview in the Guardian on Saturday, in which he warned that Britain was facing its worst
economic crisis in 60 years? Or was it a careless aside? The writer who got the scoop was Decca Aitkenhead of... [continued]
Decca Aitkenhead's article in full 
The Mole on a miserable end to Brown's summer
Writer hits paydirt with Palin biography
An Alaskan writer called Kaylene Johnson could hardly believe her luck this weekend. Nearly a year ago, she was approached by a Seattle publisher to write a biography of a virtually
unknown politician, Alaska's newly elected governor, Sarah Palin. The book - Sarah: How a Small Town Girl Turned Alaska's... [continued]
US Election 2008: Palin to be a grandmother
US Election 2008: Convention disrupted by Gustav and more questions about Palin
Emmanuelle Beart refuses to be cowed by her tsunami critics
French actress Emmanuelle Beart (pictured) was forced onto the back foot yesterday at the Venice Film Festival when journalists asked her to defend her latest film
Vinyan, which begins with a terrifying re-creation of the 2004 tsunami. The film stars Beart and British actor Rufus Sewell as a... [continued]
Venice Film Festival - more pictures
George Steiner walks into race row
George Steiner (pictured), the revered academic and novelist, has placed himself at the centre of a race row after saying that he would not be able to tolerate living next door to Jamaican neighbours "playing reggae all day". Steiner, 79, made his remarks in an interview with... [continued]
Dame Helen reveals she was raped
Dame Helen Mirren (pictured) has told GQ magazine that women who are date-raped should not necessarily expect to take those who have violated them to court, and that she herself had been locked in a room and sexually abused. The 63-year-old actress also claims in the interview... [continued]
The scoop on Rupe - with help from mum
A new “tell-all” book about media behemoth Rupert Murdoch is to be published two months earlier than scheduled because the author, Vanity Fair veteran Michael
Wolff, managed to write it faster than expected after receiving “an enormous amount of access” not only to Murdoch but also... [continued]
Rupert Murdoch comes roaring back
People: Elisabeth Murdoch takes on fund-raising duties at the Tate
In brief: the ‘new Bardot’ unveiled
Louise Bourgoin (pictured left), 26, who until recently was the weather girl for French TV channel Canal Plus, has been hailed as the "new Brigitte Bardot"
(right) following her film debut in The Girl from Monaco in which she plays a young woman who throws a middle-aged... [continued]
Watch John Le Carre’s promo
Roald Dahl: the swordsman spy
A new book about Roald Dahl (pictured in the 1940s), focusing on the time he spent as a spy attached to the British embassy during the Second World War, reveals that the celebrated children's author was employed by the government to charm and then sleep with well-connected... [continued]
