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Cameron’s trip to Murdoch’s yacht
It seems shadow chancellor George Osborne was not the only top Tory mucking around on billionaires’ boats this summer. The Independent reveals today that the Conservative
party leader David Cameron (pictured) was whisked out to Greece in August on a private jet to have drinks and dinner with the Australian... [continued]
Rothschild and Deripaska’s big plan 
Osborne drawn into Deripaska row
Gambon to become a father, aged 68
Sir Michael Gambon (pictured), who received rave reviews for his performance in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land when it opened earlier this month at
London's Duke of York theatre, has another reason to feel pleased with himself. He is to become a father again – at the age of... [continued]
Pinter revival lauded by critics
Oliver Stone defends George Bush biopic at London Film Festival
Hollywood director Oliver Stone was in London last night to promote his biopic of George W Bush, W., at the London Film Festival. Josh
Brolin, who plays Bush (pictured with cast members Elizabeth Banks, Thandie Newton and Stone), were among the stars joining the director on the red
carpet.... [continued]
Oliver Stone’s Bush biopic misses target
Stone releases Bush biopic trailer
Josh Brolin in slugging match with Bush fans
Alan Bennett leaves archive to Oxford
Alan Bennett, the playwright and memoirist, has left his entire literary and personal archive to his alma mater, Oxford University. And, unlike other writers, he has given it for
free - out of affection for Oxford and in passionate defence of free state-funded education. "I... [continued]
Alan Bennett: abolish public schools
Branson’s record attempt in jeopardy
Richard Branson's (pictured with his son, Sam) attempt to beat the transatlantic record in a single-hulled sailing boat is in jeopardy today after "massive seas and very strong gales" swept away a life craft and ripped the main sail. Speaking via satellite from his 99ft yacht, Virgin Money, he said... [continued]
In Town Last Night: Taylor-Wood draws a crowd at White Cube show
Despite the recent announcement that she and London art dealer Jay Jopling were getting divorced, it was business as usual last night for the publicity-insatiable Sam
Taylor-Wood. Not content with releasing a single the day before – she has recorded a version of 1980's classic I'm in Love with... [continued]
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Jopling and Taylor-Wood to divorce
Sam Taylor-Wood to direct John Lennon film
Finkelstein’s Osborne somersault
Are Times journalists singing from the same hymn-sheet regarding their much vaunted story about the spat between George Osborne and Nat Rothschild and the
allegation of a mooted donation to Conservative party funds from the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska? Not the paper’s chief editorial writer Daniel Finkelstein
(pictured), it... [continued]
Cameron’s trip to Murdoch’s yacht
Deripaska feud sealed Osborne’s fate
In brief: Rosamund Pike takes on the city
Rosamund Pike (pictured) is to star in a new BBC-funded movie that explores the origins of the current financial crises. In Freefall the actress will play a disillusioned broker ............. Adrian Edmondson - best known for playing foul-mouthed Vyvyan Basterd in the 1980's comedy series The Young Ones -... [continued]
Raj Persaud hospital job mystery
Life just gets worse and worse for Raj Persaud (pictured), the disgraced celebrity psychiatrist. Since being convicted of dishonesty by a disciplinary tribunal in June – he
admitted that he had plagiarised the work of other writers and academics for a number of his bestselling books – his lucrative media... [continued]
Persaud confesses to book plagiarism
