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Peter Mandelson’s back in town
Peter Mandelson is coming back to London. The flamboyant architect of New Labour was readmitted to the government by Gordon Brown in today’s reshuffle and is to be
given a peerage to allow him to be a Cabinet minister, having resigned as an MP four years ago. Known as either... [continued]
The Mole on Mandelson's surprise return 
In pictures: Mandy's back
British ambassador calls Obama ‘aloof’
A leaked briefing document about Barack Obama, composed for Gordon Brown by Britain's ambassador to Washington Sir Nigel Sheinwald
(pictured), is unlikely to go down well with the Illinois senator. The Daily Telegraph, which runs the contents of the document as an exclusive today, is choc-a-bloc with “insights”
on the... [continued]
Obama advances in new polls
Sarah Palin could be the new Ronald Reagan
Sacha Baron Cohen tips up at Stella McCartney’s Paris show
Sacha Baron Cohen gatecrashed Stella McCartney's show in Paris - as his alter ego Bruno, the camp Austrian fashion journalist. Baron Cohen - who was arrested in
Milan last Friday after leaping onto the runway at Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's show - sat in the second row of McCartney's... [continued]
In pictures: Paris Fashion Week
In pictures: Milan Fashion Week
In pictures: London Fashion Week
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
Did McCain have affair with P.J’s wife?
A highly unsubstantiated rumour is buzzing around cyberspace that the Republican presidential candidate John McCain once had an affair with Amy Lumet
(pictured), the Californian socialite daughter of film-maker Sidney Lumet (and grand-daughter of chanteuse Lena Horne), but more importantly the ex-wife of
the writer P J O'Rourke. ... [continued]
PJ O’Rourke laughs off cancer
CBS’s Lara Logan accused of theft
Lara Logan (pictured), the alluring chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS and sometime presenter of the network's Sixty Minutes programme, could be in hot
water for swiping souvenirs from the wreckage of bombed-out Baghdad. In a video profile of Logan recently aired on the internet by the industry magazine... [continued]
Lara Logan’s foreign affairs revealed
M&S model Lily Cole models for French Playboy
Lily Cole, the English model and actress, has claimed that her appearance nude in the French edition of Playboy magazine (left) is not pornography but art. Cole, 20, who is one of the faces of Marks & Spencer (right), said the 14-page shoot was inspired by the... [continued]
Rod Liddle feels the wrath of ex-wife
Hell truly hath no fury like a woman scorned, as Rod Liddle (pictured), the shaggy-haired Spectator columnist, political pundit and former editor of the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, is discovering to his cost. His ex-wife, Rachel Royce, has penned a vitriolic article in today's Daily Mail lambasting the writer... [continued]
In brief: Lights dimmed for Newman
The lights of all the theatres on Broadway are to be dimmed tonight in honour of Paul Newman (pictured), the Hollywood star who died from cancer last Friday aged 83. The
tribute will take place all along the streets fanning off Broadway and Times Square ………… The pop singer Will... [continued]
Hollywood hero Paul Newman dies
Paul Newman: big in Iran
Paul Newman: his life in pictures
Children’s Laureate calls Potter ‘boring’
Doubt over Steve Fossett’s remains
When the wreckage of his crashed airplane was discovered on Wednesday, it was widely assumed the rabid speculation about what happened to Sir Richard Branson's American balloonist
friend Steve Fossett (pictured) would come to an end. However, while bones were found near the wrecked aircraft, the investigators are already casting... [continued]
Body tissue found in Fossett wreck
Steve Fossett: the last Boy Scout
In pictures: Steve Fossett vanishes
Fossett wife seeks closure - and estate
NPG want Marc Quinn’s head
As Marc Quinn (pictured) unveiled a 50kg solid gold statue of model Kate Moss at the British Museum on Thursday, it emerged that the National Portrait
Gallery was attempting to buy one of the artist’s seminal works, Self, a bust of his head made from frozen blood. In an... [continued]
Picture of the day: golden Kate
