Dominic Lawson: Politics should be more like a gentlemen’s club, not less…Yesterday Gordon Brown once again hammered out his familiar refrain that “the lesson from all this is that Parliament can no longer be like a gentlemen’s club“. You see, in America the term has a rather different meaning than that intended by Mr Brown. [...]
Tom Griffin (London, OK): Monday was the 200th anniversary anniversary of the death of Tom Paine, the man who, in Mike Marqusee’s words, “inspired and guided revolutions in north America and France, and equally important, the revolution that did not happen in Britain.”As both Brendan O’Neill and Edward Vallance note, Paine’s writings retain remarkable relevance to today’s political crisis, not least [...]
Britney Spears gave one lucky male fan a closer look at her Circus at the weekend.
The leotard-clad singer gyrated in front of a bewildered-looking chap plucked from the audience during her show at London’s o2 arena on Sunday.Meanwhile, a UK tabloid has posted ‘topless’ pictures of Brit, allegedly taken while she filmed the [...]
Simon Cowell was yet to wipe the indiscretion off his face as he left a strip club in London covered in red lipstick. Oh, the glamour! And Simon was keen to impress US presenter and fellow judge on American Idol, Ryan Seacrest, so he went up one from Secrets in Hammersmith to take him to [...]
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If you’re anything like I used to be, you probably write-off escort services as nothing more than prostitution rings waiting to be discovered. The notion of a legitimate service like the escort [...]
A right royal row has blown up over plans to redevelop Chelsea Barracks in London, writes FRANK MCDONALD , Environment Editor…Richard Rogers also felt the royal lash. In 1987, with the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyd’s building in the City of London under his belt, he was in line to redevelop [...]
LONDON – FIA president Max Mosley reached a deal yesterday to stop eight rebel Formula One teams forming a breakaway series and says he will not now stand for re-election.Mosley ceded to the Formula One Teams Association’s insistence that a voluntary 40-million pound ($65 million) budget cap from next season would be scrapped.…The 69-year-old FIA [...]
Latest NewsMuslim cocktail waitress wins damages over skimpy outfit(24 June 2009 15:40)A Muslim cocktail waitress has won damages from a London bar owner after refusing to wear a skimpy uniform.Fata Lemes resigned from her job at the Rocket Bar in Mayfair when she was asked to wear a red dress which she claimed made her look [...]
Researching my novel in five different London hotels made me appreciate why they are such a rich source of stories and characters for writers…Hotels, then, gift writers with stories. The presence of a guest is not strictly necessary, since the story of a hotel room and to whom it has played host (president? gangster? call [...]
For the first three days of filming Bruce was left at a location in London with just a sleeping bag and told to fend for himself.He says: “I might as well have been dumped on Mars. I don’t know London. I’m a Mancunian.Stars … Annabel Croft, far left, Bruce Jones, Hardeep [...]