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Paul Boateng’s wife accused of bullying
The wife of former Labour minister Paul Boateng (pictured), who is now the British High Commissioner in South Africa, has been accused of verbally bullying members of her domestic staff. The Daily Telegraph claims that the complaints against Janet Boateng, which have been made by black members of staff, are... [continued]
Gore Vidal’s new memoirs sent up
That great panjandrum of American literary and political life, Gore Vidal (pictured in his youth), is working on a new memoir. The book, to be published next November, is
being co-written with Vanity Fair editor Ann Schneider. The tome is grandly described by its publisher as "a scrapbook... [continued]
Gawker's Gore Vidal picture album 
Cleese and Manuel mark the Prince of Wales’s 60th birthday
The Prince of Wales, who wanly claimed he only enjoyed "bits" of his job in a BBC interview shown on Wednesday, seemed in a brighter mood at the New Wimbledon Theatre in south London
last night where a host of his favourite comedy performers staged a tribute show called "We... [continued]
Prince holds two birthday bashes
Emily Maitlis misses Sarah Palin
Many media commentators had (and have) the knives out for Sarah Palin. But Emily Maitlis (pictured, the presenter of BBC 2's Newsnight, appears spellbound by the Alaskan governor and former V-P Republican candidate. "Even now, I cannot quite get enough of her," she writes in this week's Spectator.... [continued]
Shock as Christie’s fails to sell Bacon
A Francis Bacon self-portrait (pictured) failed to sell at auction at Christie's in New York last night. As discussed on The First Post today, the art market
appears to have gone into meltdown since the onset of the global financial crisis. The artist's 1964 Study for Self Portrait... [continued]
The over inflated art market sees its bubble burst
Abramovich's girlfriend Dasha admits she knows little about art
Abramovich's wife Irina talks of kidnapping fears
In brief: Bond girl Gemma at Commes des Garcons’ H&M launch
Commes des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has launched her designer range for H&M, following in the footsteps of Stella McCartney, Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor & Rolf who have also created diffusion lines for the high street chain. Bond girl Gemma Arterton (pictured), fellow actress Jaime Winstone and model Jourdan Dunn... [continued]
Newspaper hoax fools New Yorkers
Readers of the New York Times were treated to some startling news on Wednesday morning. A banner headline announced: "Iraq War Ends". This was accompanied by an admission from
Condoleezza Rice (pictured) that the Bush administration had known all along that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.... [continued]
Yes Men tweak corporate nose
Otis Ferry: prison is ‘namby-pamby’
Otis Ferry (pictured), the hunting-obsessed son of rock star Bryan Ferry, has been writing about his life in prison. "Contrary to popular belief,
prison life is not tough," he says in a letter to the hunting publication, Horn & Hound. "In this namby-pamby society we even get our own televisions, although... [continued]
Ferry wants political prisoner status
