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Boris slammed over London’s snow day
Has the moment Boris Johnson's critics have been waiting for finally arrived? The London Mayor lost his cool and stormed out of a House of Commons inquiry today as MPs quizzed him over the apparent collapse of London's transport infrastructure after the heavy snow in February. ... [continued]
Tina Brown loves Michelle Obama
Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, and now the online Daily Beast, has fancied herself as an interpreter of British Royal ways
for American readers ever since she set out to write The Diana Chronicles (2007) in a lull between editorships. This week she... [continued]
People: Tina Brown and The Beast 
In pictures: Obama in London
Tina Brown's 'Daily Beast' article in full
People: Michelle Obama wins over London – and gets a royal hug at the Palace
Kate Moss flies out for Topshop NY
More details have come in of the plans for today's grand opening of Topshop USA in New York which, as The First Post reported on Monday, has Manhattan's fashionistas salivating and retail
analysts crossing their fingers for the feisty rag-trade king, Sir Philip Green. The action began last night... [continued]
Toast of Broadway - or just toast?
Richard Curtis has his ‘Boat’ sunk
While his wife Emma Freud was one of the lucky women to be picked to attend last night's 'First Wives Club' dinner in Downing Street, Richard Curtis must have been
hiding behind the sofa at home, so bad are the reviews for his new film, The Boat that Rocked.... [continued]
The First Post's film review round-up
People: Nighy and Ifans launch pirate radio movie
Film Talk: Why Bill Nighy just can't say 'No'
People: Sarah Brown seeks to impress at Downing Street dinner
Marquez ‘will not write another novel’
Hopes that Gabriel Garcia Marquez (pictured), the Colombian-born author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, was set to publish one last novel appear to have been
dashed by his agent, who has suggested that her client has laid down his pen for good. Carmen Balcells told a Chilean newspaper... [continued]
People: Garcia Marquez breaks his writer's block
Books: Gabriel Garcia Marquez - a life
Michelle Obama wins over London – and gets a royal hug at the Palace
Michelle Obama didn't just wow Londoners on her first full day in London - she appeared to win over The Queen as well. At Wednesday evening's reception for G20
leaders at Buckingham Palace, the Queen was heard to ask the First Lady: "Now we've met, will you please keep in... [continued]
In pics: Obama in London
People: Nick Clegg furious at Obama snub
People: Michelle Obama’s gown boosts Jason Wu
Bayley picks up feud with Mandelson
Style guru Stephen Bayley (pictured), former chief executive of the Design Museum, has reopened his feud with Business Secretary Lord Mandelson by naming him as one of 'The Worst Dressed Men of 2009'
in Esquire magazine. Bayley, now the Observer's architecture and design correspondent, claimed in the men's... [continued]
The Mole: Mandelson 'slimed' by green protester
Mandelson returns to London
Russell Brand stays decent at G20 protest
The last time Russell Brand was seen at an anti-capitalist march, in 2001, he was covering the event for MTV and ended up getting arrested for indecent exposure, so police spotters
would have had their eyes on the controversial comedian when he popped up among protestors in the Square Mile... [continued]
People: Brand resigns over Sachs calls
Withnail & Kate: Sadie ‘plans gift for Moss’
Having just missed out on buying the farmhouse where the cult film Withnail & I was set, supermodel Kate Moss may be about to get a small souvenir of the 1987 movie,
thanks to her friend Sadie Frost. Actress Frost was among the visitors to a... [continued]
Kate Moss flies out for Topshop's New York launch
Floethe hits back over Wolff scandal
When Victoria Floethe, an attractive 28-year-old journalist from Atlanta, was caught having what she describes as "a torrid office affair" with 55-year-old Vanity Fair
writer Michael Wolff (pictured), it spelled the end of Wolff's marriage to Alison Anthoine and made Floethe the talk of New York. A few... [continued]
Rupert Murdoch takes another swipe at Wolff
