The new editor of Tatler was ‘made for the job’ — for her friends and colleagues she epitomises the magazine. Marsha Dunstan on the rise of original It girl Kate Reardon... more
The end of the weekend has just become bearable again. Into the gap left by Downton Abbey steps TV drama Any Human Heart — starring the original book’s biggest fan... more
New luvvie in training Freddie Fox is the latest in a long line of foxy thespians. But he's not afraid to play against type with his breakthrough role as a Cockney transsexual, discovers Pip Clements... more
Laura Wade’s play about an aristocratic Oxford dining club opens during an election that could put an ex-Bullingdon member in No 10. There’s more to the breed than meets the eye, she tells Nick Curtis.... more
Move over Mendes, watch out Nunn, Rupert Goold's production of Enron is the critical hit of the summer, and his Kubrick-inspired take on Shakespeare thrills modern audiences... more
What do government ministers do with their time? It's a moot question, given the state the country is in, but some clue comes from the exchange of emails between the recently departed communications minister Lord Carter and his former employer, Brunswick ... more
Gordon Ramsay is not the only high-profile celebrity chef having a hard time of it. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the old Etonian contemporary of David Cameron, is not exactly flush with cash.... more
A controversial new film about the young Margaret Thatcher's ten-year struggle to become an MP is to be screened next week. Edwina Currie reveals Mrs Thatcher wasn't afraid to use the seductive powers of politics.... more
Well, what a U-turn. The BBC, having twittered and tutted about Margaret Thatcher for 30 years, has made a feature film depicting her as a firebrand and sex bomblet. ... more
A feminist firebrand. A sex bomb who flirted with Ted Heath. QUENTIN LETTS has a sneak preview of the BBC's controversial new film about the young Mrs T
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Stephen Wight fell into acting by accident - now his poker-playing waiter in Dealer's Choice, has put him in the running for Outstanding Newcomer at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more
From blockbuster films and open-air theatre to the Last Night of the Proms and Prince, it promises to be a memorable summer of entertainment in London. Our critics have picked their favourites.... more
Harold Pinter casts a rare, revealing eye on adultery and its companion, mendacity, in Betrayal, his indelibly fine account of a triangular love affair in Seventies literary London.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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