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Osborne ‘regretful’ but mystery continues
Membership of the Bullingdon club, the riotous (and very elitist) Oxford University drinking society, has been the cause of intense embarrassment for both David Cameron and
George Osborne (pictured), who today admitted on BBC Radio 4's The World at One that he had made a mistake in... [continued]
Newsdesk: Osborne admits mistake in donor row 
The Bullingdon photo
Infamous Bullingdon Club photo resurfaces to haunt Tories
Hannah Rothschild spills beans on Corfu
The Rothschild family are a notoriously secretive lot, especially, as has become all too evident in the last week or so, about the goings on at their sumptuous villa on the island of Corfu. So it is
surprising that one of their number, Nat Rothschild's elder sister, Hannah (pictured), has... [continued]
Bullingdon Club photo mystery
Rothschild family’s Tory links: continued
David Axelrod could join Barack Obama in White House
David Axelrod the political consultant who has masterminded Barack Obama's presidential campaign strategy, looks set to take a senior job in the Obama White House,
should his man win the election next week. Axelrod (pictured with Obama) won't talk about it - and Obama aides don't discuss... [continued]
Americans: Axelrod and the race for the black vote
US election election: reports of blame game in McCain-Palin camp
Beckhams to appear in Italian film
Do David and Victoria Beckham ever learn? Shortly after they arrived in America in 2006, they agreed to take part in a documentary about their lives, in which they were made to look ridiculous and were generally flailed alive by the US media. One critic wrote of the programme, called... [continued]
In brief: Del Toro at Che premiere
Hollywood actor Benicio Del Toro (pictured) attended the UK premiere of Che, Steven Soderbergh's four-hour biopic of the Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara, at the London Film Festival over the weekend. Speaking afterwards, Soderbergh was keen to speak about his next project, a musical version of the life of Cleopatra starring... [continued]
Why Laurence Ferrari is too sexy for French TV
Since taking over as the anchor of the main evening news programme, The Journal Televise, on the French channel TF1, the beautiful Laurence Ferrari has had to endure a good
deal of carping from those who consider her a lightweight. It hasn't helped that she is said to have dated... [continued]
Sarko favourite Ferrari ousts PPDA for France’s key TV job
Bad night with de Niro for Sarko’s news girl
Winterson’s last call to Pat Kavanagh
Jeanette Winterson (pictured), the author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, has revealed how she made contact with her former lover Pat Kavanagh,
the literary agent, shortly before Kavanagh died last week from a brain tumour. After being told Kavanagh was ill by Ruth Rendell, Winterson called the... [continued]
Pat Kavanagh dies of brain tumour
Beryl Bainbridge gets writing again
Beryl Bainbridge gets writing again Beryl Bainbridge, the endearingly eccentric novelist, has revealed a new method of curing writer’s block – have a heart attack. For some time she had found it extremely difficult to get anything down on paper, a state of affairs she had ascribed to her coming... [continued]
