As celebrities join a protest against a London PR firm's links with authoritarian Belarus, Gideon Spanier exposes the publicity firms with an image problem... more
You're an exiled Middle Eastern despot who has lost his empire but hung on to his ill-gotten billions. Where next? London, of course, where the tax laws are lax and the living is easy... more
Teach-ins, shout-outs, silent flashmobs and food from skips: our writers spent a day with the students sitting-in at nine of London’s colleges as they prepare for Thursday’s mass protest... more
University chiefs are granted an injunction to evict students who are in their fifth day of occupying a function room in protest at funding cuts and higher tuition fees... more
A freezing night on the ice, an ambush in Kosovo and a terrifying encounter with the Burmese militia. Three adventurers recount their ultimate tales of derring-do... more
Britain's richest man is putting his house up for rent after struggling to sell it. Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, 58, is looking for tenants to stay at Summer Palace in a road called billionaires' row... more
Language "caught alive" is an intoxicating experience in all poetry - the sound is "the gold in the ore", said Robert Frost - and most particularly so with the poems of TS Eliot... more
Prince Charles’s jeweller Garrard has been through rocky times. Can newly appointed designer Stephen Webster bring back the sparkle and entice William to pop in for that engagement ring?... more
Prince Charles owns a pair of wooden maracas, a batik sarong, a Bob Marley-style baseball cap and wrist band, a plastic seat cushion and an acoustic guitar, it was revealed... more
The Prime Minister's New Year's resolution was to take up running again - and, frankly, he'll need every turn of speed he can get to keep ahead of his own spectacular contradictions... more
The Duchess of Cornwall is to pull out of a royal tour with the Prince of Wales halfway through because she feels it is too "arduous", Clarence House said... more
Chelsy Davy is back in London after a romantic break in South Africa with Prince Harry - and filling her days as any potential royal bride should... more
She's known for her kooky sense of humour, but it's her kooky sense of style that's raising eyebrows as American actress Goldie Hawn, arrived in Amsterdam dressed in a coat which made her resemble an Eskimo... more
Hollywood star Goldie Hawn has formed an unlikely friendship with the son of the Sultan of Brunei. Hawn, 62, and Prince Haji Abdul Azim enjoyed a night at celebrity hangout Cipriani on Saturday, where they had a cosy tete a tete... more
Featuring a ji-nashi shakuhachi player, an Irish fiddler and a guzheng playing Chinese student, there is a distinctly international feel to this awareness raising evening.... more
If Boy George had illusions about just how far he has slipped, Koko's closed top tier and a hardly heaving dancefloor would have soon dispelled them, says John Aizlewood.... more
Sad but resilient are the songs from London-based Palestinian singer Reem Kelani. And, Simon Broughton says, she has a great rapport with the audience.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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