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Osborne drawn into Deripaska row
Nathaniel Rothschild, a scion of the famous banking clan, has revealed that the shadow chancellor George Osborne and the Conservative Party's chief fundraiser Andrew Feldman met the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska on board his yacht in the summer and discussed a gift of £50,000 to Tory coffers.... [continued]
Max Mosley says orgies will continue
Max Mosley, the head of Formula One, whose taste for S&M became public this summer when he successfully sued the News of the World for invasion of privacy, has told the
Guardian that he has no intention of curtailing his enthusiasm for sado-masochistic practices, despite acknowledging it exposes himself... [continued]
Max Mosley Guardian interview 
Max Mosley out for blood
Lady Diana Mosley talks of Hitler
Anne Hathaway tipped for Oscar glory as ex faces jail
Anne Hathaway (left) and Gwyneth Paltrow (right) were both in London on Monday night attending UK premieres of their latest movies at the London Film Festival. Hathaway, whose former boyfriend Raffaello Follieri is due to be sentenced on Thursday for cheating investors in a scam involving... [continued]
Hirst has trouble selling his £200m skull
Damien Hirst (pictured) may have made £111m last month in a sale of his works at Sotheby's, but not even he is protected from the financial crisis, it seems. The 43-year-old
artist is having enormous difficulty finding someone to stump up for his famous diamond encrusted skull, which was... [continued]
Damien Hirst Sotheby’s show a success despite economic crash
Damien Hirst’s drinking club row
Pat Kavanagh dies of brain tumour
Pat Kavanagh, the glamorous doyenne of literary agents and wife of the novelist Julian Barnes, died from a brain tumour yesterday aged 68. Tributes to her skill as
an agent and her no-nonsense approach to the business of working with authors, securing handsome advances and looking after... [continued]
Andrew Neil behind PFD takeover
‘The Jackal’ snaps up Waugh estate
Jack Vettriano’s portrait of Zara Phillips could fetch £1m
A portrait of Princess Anne's daughter, Zara Phillips, by the Scottish artist Jack Vettriano is to be auctioned at Bonhams in London today to raise
money for the charity Sport Relief. Despite the credit crunch it is expected to achieve £1m, according to the Daily Telegraph. As... [continued]
Zara Phillips pulls out of Olympics
Dawkins takes atheist message to buses
Professor Richard Dawkins (pictured), the renowned evolutionary biologist, has put his hand in his own pocket to pay for a series of advertisements on the sides of London
buses doubting the existence of God. The ads, the first of their type to appear on London transport, declare: "There's probably no... [continued]
Turkish writer wins net ban on Dawkins
