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George Bush’s bizarre farewell to the press
George Bush's final press conference at the White House yesterday, during which he defended his war on terror and the US-led invasion of Iraq, was a jabbering and sometimes bellicose
affair and has left observers asking whether this was one of the most cringe-making appearances ever... [continued]
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Beyond satire: Matthew Carr on the Bush-Blair double act
Opinion Digest: what the papers say about Bush's legacy
Emma Thompson buys Heathrow runway land
Emma Thompson, the Oscar-winning actress, has put her money where her mouth is with regards to the controversial plan to build a third runway at Heathrow. Along with a number of
other famous opponents, among them TV impressionist Alastair McGowan and multi-millionaire green campaigner and prospective Tory MP Zac... [continued]
People: Brit actress saved by outraged Emma
In brief: director Claude Berri dies
Claude Berri, director of the hit French films Jean de Florette and its sequel Manon des Sources (see clip below), died on Monday of a suspected stroke at
the age of 74. The 1980s films, set in rural Provence, helped make international stars out of Gerard Depardieu, Daniel... [continued]
American Transition: two breeds left in the four-legged race to become First Puppy
People: Winehouse’s Blake in jail
Polanski rape victim says drop charges
Samantha Geimer, the woman at the centre of the infamous rape case against Roman Polanski (pictured), has asked for the charges against him to be dropped
because she says she cannot stand the trauma of having the incident raked over again by the media. As reported here, the Polish-born,... [continued]
People: Polanski fearful of returning to US
Amiel tells of Madoff effect in Palm Beach
These are testing times for Barbara Amiel (pictured) who is waiting with bated breath to see if George W Bush grants her jailbird husband, Conrad
Black, a presidential pardon before he leaves office next week. To distract herself, Amiel, who once claimed that her "extravagance knows no bounds", has turned... [continued]
People: Barbara Amiel gains a bleeding heart
Conrad Black slates Wolff's 'grating' Murdoch biog
Medvedev’s bizarre cheapo watch is the talk of the internet
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was spotted last week on a visit to an orphanage outside Moscow wearing a bizarrely chunky black digital watch. It quickly became the talk of the
internet and Russian bloggers have worked out that Medvedev (right) was wearing a Chinese MPW – a Mobile Phone Watch.... [continued]
People: Medvedev challenged by Khodorkovsky
People: Putin bails out his billionaire pals
Unknown Jen Hadfield wins T S Eliot prize
Jen Hadfield, a 30-year-old poet who supplements the slim income she makes from verse by working in a shop, has won one of poetry’s grandest awards, the TS Eliot Prize, which has
been won in the past by Seamus Heaney and the late poet laureate Ted Hughes.... [continued]
People: Motion warns future laureates about the job
Beyonce and Bono to play at Obama concert
Tony Blair famously tempted fate by inviting around a then very youthful Noel Gallagher of Oasis to Downing Street after Labour's landslide victory in 1997. Barack Obama is playing safe with his own pop star admirers. The concert being held in his honour at the Lincolm Memorial in Washington on... [continued]
Time’s up for Ross at BBC, says Lawson
Jonathan Ross (pictured) faces an uphill battle when he returns to the nation's TV screens airwaves next week following his three-month suspension for leaving lewd messages
on the answerphone of Andrew Sachs, the actor who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers. As reported here, a number of big movie stars,... [continued]
People: Daniel Craig snubs Jonathan Ross
Derek Hatton attacks Lady Thatcher
Derek Hatton, the one-time de facto leader of Liverpool City Council who was expelled from the Labour Party by its then leader Neil Kinnock in 1986 for being a member of the Marxist Militant Tendency, has stuck the knife into Lady Thatcher, lamenting the fact that her mother did... [continued]
