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Hitchens’s bizarre ‘lesbian’ jibe
The American-based English writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens is evidently unconcerned about endearing himself to the feminist community. Fresh from provoking a deluge of hate mail with his Vanity Fair article, “Why Women Aren’t Funny”, he appeared on MSNBC and called his co-host Andrew Sullivan,... [continued]
In brief: Doherty handed jail sentence
Troubled British songwriter Pete Doherty has been sentenced to 14 weeks in jail for using drugs and violating his probation... Naomi Campbell has been banned from
British Airways after she allegedly spat in a police officer's face at Heathrow's Terminal 5 last week… John Lennon's widow... [continued]
Campbell cracks under T5 strain 
Neil Aspinall, the real fifth Beatle dies
Lost Girls author gets happy ending
Alan Moore is revered as one of Britain’s best writers for comics, and his graphic novels V for Vendetta and From Hell have been made into much-lauded films. But
Moore’s erotic Lost Girls which The First Post starts serialising today, saw the 54-year-old under fire from critics angry about the... [continued]
Lost Girls: the grown-up adventures of Dorothy, Wendy and Alice
Porn - in soft pastels
Diana verdict is a disaster for Fayed
The inquest verdict that Diana, Princess of Wales and her friend Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed has been welcomed by her sons, William and
Harry. In a statement issued by Clarence House the two princes said they agreed with the verdict and thanked the jurors for... [continued]
How The First Post revealed the truth
Why did Mansfield agree to act for Fayed?
With the Diana inquest finally over, one question remains unanswered: why did the radical QC Michael Mansfield (left), who made his brilliant reputation by
taking on miscarriages of justice and defending the indefensible, agree to represent Mohamed Fayed (right) whose conspiracy theories about the Royal Family and the Secret
Service... [continued]
A tribute to Michael Mansfield
Times change as Bob Dylan wins Pulitzer Prize
Bob Dylan, singer, poet and one of the heroes of the Sixties generation, has been given a Pulitzer Prize. Dylan is the first rock artist to win the award, and was given his honorary Pulitzer for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" at a... [continued]
Perry hits back over ‘stinking mob’ Barclays
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, columnist for The First Post and former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, has taken the unusual step of complaining to the Press Complaints
Commission (PCC) after the Spectator magazine altered a book review he wrote for them, in order to save the blushes of their proprietors, the... [continued]
Kind of Blue: Peregrine Worsthorne's weekly column
Clash of cultures at Telegraph Towers
Condi tipped as McCain running mate
Is Condoleezza Rice hoping to be picked as Senator John McCain's running-mate for the White House? The rumour began on Sunday when a Republican strategist,
Dan Senor, set tongues wagging by telling a TV interviewer that the Secretary of State was "actively campaigning" to be chosen as the Republican vice-presidential... [continued]
Thandie to play Condi in Bush biopic
