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Book tells of Rowan Williams’s suicide girl
A new biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams (pictured), reveals the guilt he continues to feel over the suicide of a woman who fell in love with him
while they were students at Oxford University in the 1970s. The death of Hilary Watson is said to have... [continued]
Archbishop backs gay partnerships 
Paul Dacre savages Justice Eady
Paul Dacre (pictured), the Daily Mail's editor-in-chief, has rounded on Justice David Eady, the judge who found in favour of Max
Mosley in a case the F1 boss brought against a Sunday tabloid that had revealed, wrongly, that a sado-masochistic orgy he took part in was Nazi-themed. Dacre made... [continued]
Paul Dacre: Self-serving and sanctimonious
Max Mosley says orgies will continue
Mosley to set up fund to fight libel
Newdesk: Mosley wins privacy action
Carla Bruni furious about Berlusconi’s Obama suntan jibe
A quip by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (right) about US President-elect Barack Obama's "suntan" has not gone down well with France's First Lady,
Carla Bruni (left). In an interview with the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the Italian-born Bruni, who became a French national following her marriage to... [continued]
Carla Bruni comes to the aid of terrorist
Carla Bruni sees herself as the heir to Jackie Onassis
Village people turn on Mandelson
The good people of Foy, Herefordshire, are none too pleased that Lord Mandelson (pictured) has chosen to use their village's name in his title – the Labour cabinet minister
sits in the House of Lords as 'Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county... [continued]
Mandelson enjoys the high life in Moscow
In brief: Kate Winslet tricked by mag
Kate Winslet (pictured) has received an apology from Vanity Fair after she discovered that she was given real fur to wear on a photoshoot for this month's issue of the magazine. The 33-year-old British actress, who has been a vocal opponent of fur, agreed to pose on the rug in... [continued]
Hayley Westenra under pressure from record company to dress ‘tarty’
When Hayley Westenra (pictured with Jonathan Ansell) sang in front of the Queen on Saturday at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall she was a picture of primness. However, the soprano claims that her record company, Universal, would like her to dress more like a member of... [continued]
Charlie Whelan accused of bullying
Since being forced to resign as Gordon Brown's spin doctor after leaking details of Peter Mandelson's controversial mortgage loan in 1999, Charlie
Whelan (pictured)has earnt his crust as the political director of Unite, the UK's largest trade union. But this is not going well. The staff have accused him of... [continued]
The Mole: Charlie is still Brown’s darling
Tate hangs Rothkos upside down
Huge embarrassment for Sir Nicholas Serota (pictured), the director of Tate Modern. Two paintings by the artist Mark Rothko, famous for his bold stripes and
squares, appear to have been hung the wrong way round by curators at a major retrospective of his works currently being held at the Tate.... [continued]
Stuckists lobby PM to oust Tate’s Serota
Friends defend Jonathan Ross
Not a squeak has been heard out of Jonathan Ross (pictured) since he was suspended by the BBC for his part in the "Manuelgate" affair. However, in yesterday's
Independent on Sunday friends of Ross came to his defence, claiming that he warned the producers of Russell Brand's radio show that... [continued]
What BBC ban means to Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross spends £40,000 on a bath
Stourton retreats on Queen Mother attack
Edward Stourton, the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, is having second thoughts about calling the late Queen Mother (pictured) "a ghastly old bigot". He made his remark in a book he's written on political correctness, called It's a PC World, which features an account of a private conversation... [continued]
