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Colonel Tim Collins attacked over speech
When Colonel Tim Collins (pictured) delivered his famous battle speech on the eve of the second Gulf war, in which he evoked the spirit of Churchill and Shakespeare's
Henry V, it was hailed as masterpiece of martial rhetoric. However, a new book, written by a soldier who served under him... [continued]
Colonel Tim Collin's speech in full 
Tim Collins: It’s time for a new International Brigade
Sarkozy affair claim in secret cop’s diary
The diaries of the former head of France's secret police, which have been leaked to and published in the news magazine Le Point, contain a number of uncomfortable revelations about the
country's political elite - including a claim that President Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured) had an affair with the wife of... [continued]
People: Bernard Laporte denies fathering Rachida Dati child
People: Sarkozy union marred by anti-semitic row
Julian Schnabel hit by crunch
Julian Schnabel, the American artist turned film-maker, is feeling the pinch from the rapid drop in real estate values in New York. He has just been forced to slash the asking price
for The Palazzo Chupi penthouse, part of an imposing, eye-soarishly pink development that he owns in Manhattan, from... [continued]
Miami braced for art world invasion
Barbara Amiel gains a bleeding heart
Barbara Amiel, the wife of the disgraced Canadian tycoon (Lord) Conrad Black, currently serving a six-and-a-half year sentence in the US for fraudseems to have
developed a social conscience. Writing in the latest edition of Canadian magazine Macleans, for which she is a columnist, she talks about her... [continued]
People: The sad lament of Barbara Amiel
Carfagna to sue over Berlusconi allegations
Mara Carfagna (pictured), the one-time topless model turned Italian politician, has decided to sue a comedienne who made a joke that she was given her ministerial position
in return for performing an explicit sexual act with Silvio Berlusconi. The comic, Sabina Guzzanti has revealed that 32-year old Carfagna has begun... [continued]
Carfagna denies pleasuring Berlusconi
Can Berlusconi's women save Italy
Foo Fighters turn on John McCain
John McCain has incurred the wrath of the rock band The Foo Fighters for using one of their compositions as a campaign song. The band, who are led by Dave Grohl
(pictured), formerly of the grunge band Nirvana, have fired off a missive telling the Republican presidential candidate to stop... [continued]
People: celebrities sing for Barack Obama
In brief: Bacall blasts Tom Cruise
Lauren Bacall, the Hollywood legend and former wife of Humphrey Bogart, has turned her famously caustic tongue on fellow actor Tom Cruise. "Tom
Cruise is a maniac. I can't understand the way he conducts his life. When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise," she... [continued]
People: Could Russell Tovey be the new Doctor Who?
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Who is Nobel winner Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Scott Rudin closes book on The Reader
The long-running dispute over the release date of the film The Reader - as reported here the Hollywood producer Scott Rudin has attacked Harvey Weinstein
(pictured) for attempting to bully the director Stephen Daldry to get the film finished in time for the 2008 Oscars - has has taken another... [continued]
People: Will Weinstein pay up on $1m bet?
People: Kidman's small fee for The Reader
