Stephen Fry is just one of a number who have discovered that what you 'tweet' on Twitter is harder to get rid of than nuclear waste
Read full article...If London is a centre of influence, a melting pot of creative partnerships, deals, competition and unlikely alliances then last night the Evening Standard's party for London's top 1,000 influentials was a microcosm of that in action
It is not enough to be invited to the best parties - to be really cool, says Olivia Cole, you must move on somewhere special
When a dancer friend of Andy Warhol's pirouetted out of a window to his death on the sidewalk below, Warhol is reputed to have sighed and said: "Oh God I wish I'd been there to film it"
There's nothing artistic about drugging, raping or sodomising a young girl. The details vary depending which version of Roman Polanski's 1977 seduction of a 13-year-old actress you read
Polly Morgan became a hit in the art world after selling a taxidermied rat in a champagne flute
Even knowing the furore that his novel, Lolita, would cause, Vladimir Nabokov couldn’t resist teasing such “educators” and their discomfort with sex
This week the TUC said it would like to see high heels, which it terms “sexist” and “inappropriate”, outlawed in the workplace
Those expecting razor-sharp epigrams and bonnets in Ealing Studio's new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray may be disappointed
An ordinary night out doesn’t cut it any more. Londoners want to let their hair down at edgy, exclusive themed evenings, says Olivia Cole
Celebrity endorsements are the latest proof of poetry's new-found fashionability
It’s east versus west as Victoria and Hyde Parks vie with each other to host the best of the summer festivals. But for Olivia Cole there’s one clear winner
With Keats House, the Heritage Lottery executives have got it right and bestowed their largesse on preserving something priceless
Move over Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst - a new wave of British artists is emerging. For canny investors, now may be the time to start collecting such work
Lavish charity galas are over. Olivia Cole looks at the Not For Profit (NFP) fundraisers who target small, considered donations from the many
From brutal pictures of the Iranian election to viral marketing campaigns for the latest pop band, Olivia Cole looks at the growing influence of the Twittering generation
I recently attended a rowdy dinner with Tracey Emin. At about 2am, she began to do her impression of her cat Docket
While Angelina Jolie's back was turned, our intrepid reporter Olivia Cole made a beeline for her teenage crush. So what did he say?
The work of Helmut Newton, on show from Thursday at Hamiltons gallery, remains what could best be euphemistically termed, right on the edge


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