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The day McGuinness came to No 10
The historic first appearance in Downing Street of Martin McGuinness, the former IRA chief of staff, could hardly have been more awkward, according to the first memoirs from Jonathan Powell, who was Tony Blair's chief of staff during his premiership. In his book about the brokering of the Northern Ireland... [continued]
In brief: Heather Mills awarded £24.3m
Heather Mills has been awarded £24.3m in her divorce settlement with Sir Paul McCartney... Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the call-girl who brought down
New York governor Eliot Spitzer, could make around $5m from the sex scandal following $1m offers from Hustler and Penthouse to pose nude, a six-figure... [continued]
I'm not a monster, says call-girl Ashley 
Top lawyer Buchwald takes on Ashley's case
Victoria Combe hits back at claims by Bill Deedes biographer
Was the venerable Bill Deedes, the long-serving Daily Telegraph journalist and former Cabinet minister who died last August at the age of 94, romantically involved with a
woman journalist less than half his age, Victoria Combe? Absolutely not, says Combe, writing at the weekend in an effort to dispel the... [continued]
Deedes: Evelyn Waugh was a pig
Boris starts his own fanzine in PR war
When Boris Johnson launched his campaign to wrest the London mayoralty off Ken Livingstone, he vowed that if he wins in May he will put a halt to the publication of
The Londoner, a newsletter delivered free to homes in the capital, packed with photos of the mayor and generally... [continued]
In pictures: Boris Johnson's fanzine
Joe Lewis loses $1bn in Bear Stearns collapse
The collapse of the American investment bank Bear Stearns has claimed at least one high-profile British casualty. He is Joe Lewis, the 70-year-old billionaire (still, just) who owns
Tottenham Hotspur football club and lives in the Bahamas from where he has made a fortune - estimated at $2.8bn before this... [continued]
From Bear to worse: the economic outlook is gloomy
The Mole: US and UK aim to borrow their way out
Sarko’s pre-Windsor makeover
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been advised to behave in a more statesmanlike manner, starting with his visit to Windsor on March 26 as a guest of the Queen.
No more Ray-Bans and jogging shorts, no more public kisses and cuddles with new wife Carla Bruni, and definitely no more... [continued]
Sarkozy cuts short his visit to Queen
Charles and Philip may be called as witnesses
The royal family have so far sidestepped the entire Diana inquest, now into its sixth month, but both the Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh could soon find themselves subpoenaed to give evidence in the trial of two men who allegedly plotted to blackmail a member... [continued]
