He is a passionate advocate of smoking and freedom of choice. Now artist David Hockney has linked his two obsessions in a remarkable new artwork based on cigarette packets... more
A thank you to the royal couple for giving London wives the excuse to throw Copy Kate parties and dress up in their fairytale frocks one more time... more
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
Public relations boss Lord Chadlington hits out at suggestions that his firm Huntsworth is an "apologist" for Belarus after it opened an office in the authoritarian former Soviet state... more
Mike Hunt is not a favoured name among Tannoy announcers. But the one running AIM-listed stem-cell technology business ReNeuron (OK, he’s actually Michael Hunt) is not popular with certain of his shareholders either, City Spy hears... more
Members of the Belarus Free Theatre company whose work has been championed by Jude Law and Sienna Miller are arrested in a crackdown on protests against the results of the Belarus presidential election... more
When your wife is best-selling author and relationship expert Kate Figes, many husbands might be nervous. But being half of this couple holds no terrors for Christopher Wyld, he assures Viv Groskop... more
Football: Wayne Rooney believes he is in the best England form of his life after his brace fired Fabio Capello's side to a superb 3-1 victory in Belarus... more
According to a Football Association spokesman, it was "crazy" for England fans to boo Ashley Cole after his howler gave away a goal at Wembley last Saturday. I say it's crazy for some puffed-up mouthpiece insulated from reality at Soho Square to expect anything different.... more
Football: The best coaches are those who acknowledge their mistakes and have the guile to do something about them and that is precisely what Capello did... more
Football: England stars Steven Gerrard and Matthew Upson defend the right of Wembley fans to boo under-performing players, but plead with them to get behind the World Cup campaign... more
Frank Lampard declared that Fabio Capello's team were determined to win back the confidence of the nation as he talked of his excitement about the new-look England... more
West Ham's Matthew Upson is being lined up to win his ninth cap for England against
Kazakhstan as captain John Terry struggles to overcome a back problem... 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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