This, before we get down to the juicy details, is not how Gordon Brown saw it. The Dubai dream was largely the creation of the late Sheikh Maktoum and his successor, the current ruler Sheikh Mohammed. The day before Dubai’s shock debt announcement, the sheikh was in London. According to UAE’s national news service, Gordon [...]
Mrs Warren is the Belle de Jour of her time. She believes that prostitution is a fine way for an attractive woman to earn her living, far more appealing than the drudgery and dangers of life in a factory. George Bernard Shaw’s trenchant 1893 play inevitably upset the censor; [...]
London, Nov 28 (IANS) Pop star Fergie says she studied Italian cinema and its actresses to master her performance as a prostitute in the film ‘Nine’.…Childhood stardom led me to drugs, says Fergie London, October 14(ANI): Singer Fergie has said that stardom during childhood triggered her addiction to drugs. [...]
Saturday, 28 November 2009 12:46London, Nov 28 (IANS) Pop star Fergie says she studied Italian cinema and its actresses to master her performance as a prostitute in the film ‘Nine’.The ‘Black Eyed Peas’ star admits she went to auditions in London well prepared to convince director Rob Marshall he had made the right choice in [...]
The family of 18-year-old Sally Anne Bowman, who was murdered in 2005, wait for a verdict on her death outside the Old Bailey in London last year. Her killer might not have been caught without DNA evidence.Photograph: Getty ImagesCHEF MARK DIXIE believed that he had got away with murder until the night he went to [...]
At times the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in Iraq since 2001, which opened last week, resembled a gentlemen’s club moved to the sanitised surroundings of the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster.…On Tuesday, Edward Chaplin, the Foreign Office Middle East director at the time of the invasion, and Sir Peter Ricketts, the top [...]
Officers swooped on the Capricorn Club, in London’s West End, last night after a six-month undercover operation.They arrested five men and two women as they raided the Goodge Street night-spot and eight other addresses across the capital and Essex.…Strippers and prostitutes paid a percentage of the fee to the club for [...]
LONDON (AFP) – A BRITISH scientist who wrote a racy blog and a best-selling book about being a prostitute has admitted she misses some parts of her old job as a call girl.Brooke Magnanti, who works for The Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, revealed herself this month as the person behind the nom [...]
THE late great socialist orator Dr Donald Soper is heard speaking out against capital punishment in 1958 in a remarkable exhibition launched in Islington this week.In the Pathé news clip Dr Soper explains why he is against hanging. “I’m against it because it’s cowardly,” he says. “I’m against it because it’s inefficient, I’m against it [...]
Police have raided an Isle of Dogs address as part of an investigation into prostitution and drug use at a lap dancing club.…The club was described by police as “a place where sex and drugs were freely available”. Its “affluent clientele” were offered sex for between £200 and £250 at the club, or for £250 [...]