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The night Eric wasn’t so wonderful
Today's cover story for The First Post about the birth of Rock Against Racism is likely to come as a shock to many fans of Eric Clapton. Can the man responsible for writing
and singing Layla and Wonderful Tonight really be the same one who made comments at a 1976... [continued]
The gig that rocked Britain's consciousness 
Muslim rapper claims he’s ‘signed’ Obama
First the hip hop stars came out for presidential hopeful Barack Obama, with two star-studded videos from Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am and a rap from
singer-actor Mos Def. Neither artist was working officially with the campaign team: whether Obama wanted it or not, they were on... [continued]
US Election: Latest news, gossip and analysis
How Obama adviser Samantha Power was forced to resign
Less than a fortnight ago, The First Post wrote on this page about a 37-year-old Irish-born writer, Samantha Power, who had become a senior foreign policy advisor to Barack
Obama. On Friday, after a trip to Britain to give press interviews about her latest book, she was forced to resign... [continued]
Samantha Power on 'Obama-mania'
Tarita tells of virtues of life with Pellicano
She may have a name straight out of pulp fiction, but there's nothing unreal about Tarita Virtue. While Hollywood awaits the testimony of studio bosses, agents and actors in the
trial of Anthony Pellicano, "private eye to the stars", Virtue, a former model and trainee investigator, has been telling a... [continued]
Who's who in the Pellicano case
Pellicano trial kicks off in La-la Land
Bill Deedes: ‘Waugh was a pig’
Bill Deedes, the journalist who was still writing for the Daily Telegraph at the grand old age of 94 before his death last August, kept a secret all his adult life. Although he enjoyed the joke that Evelyn Waugh based the character Boot in Scoop, his satirical novel about journalism,... [continued]
Chiwetel Ejiofor wrests Olivier from stage greats
It was billed as a clash of two thespian heavyweights - Ian McKellen as King Lear and Patrick Stewart as Macbeth - going head to head for best actor at the Laurence
Olivier awards on Sunday night. Instead the prize went to Chiwetel Ejiofor, the 33-year-old actor... [continued]
Hottest ticket in town let down by 'Ewan Macgregor factor'
In brief: Presley to sue Daily Mail
Lisa Marie Presley (pictured) is suing the Daily Mail for libel over publishing an article alleging she is overweight; the 40-year-old daughter of Elvis Presley said the report forced her to confirm she is expecting her third child... The British film Atonement, a flop at the Oscars,... [continued]
Whitehall’s mystery blogger goes to ground
A cheeky female civil servant blogger, who has been ridiculing Cabinet members including Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, and taking the mickey out of civil service mandarins, right up to Cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell, appears to have gone to ground after the Sunday Times reported that the hunt for her... [continued]
Ken Livingstone defends Lee Jasper
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, fighting to keep his job against the Conservatives' Boris Johnson in the upcoming mayoral election, admitted on Sunday that he
hadn't had the best of weeks after his race advisor Lee Jasper was forced to resign following a months-long war of attrition with the... [continued]
Ken cashes in on Banksy graffiti
