One day last week, I attended the Future Laboratory, the trend-forecasting consultancy, to learn about the next 10 years. The name of the conference? The Wisdom Age... more
This was very much the established version of the Joan Collins story, from baby to Dynasty - cue deafening cheers and catfight clips - and beyond... more
Hats off to Bruce Packard, analyst at Seymour Pierce, for his trenchant views today on the bank stress tests - the results of which were published on Friday at 5pm. "No one at Seymour Pierce spent the weekend trawling through the European Bank Stress Tests," he writes. "For a start this would have violated the European Union Work Time Directive"... more
Greenwich University is top of the league table for cheats after more than 800 students were caught plagiarising, trying to bribe lecturers or buying essays from the internet last year, a survey shows
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The reaction to the acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL has run from sceptical to enthusiastic, with more than a dash of wonderment at the remarkable personal story behind the Post's founder... more
London judge orders online encyclopedia Wikipedia to reveal the identity of one of its contributors after a mother and child pleaded for help in tracking down an alleged blackmailer... more
The usefulness of Wikipedia could be under threat after researchers found that thousands of contributors had deserted the internet encyclopaedia... more
Jil Sander launches her first collection for Uniqlo and celebrity jeweller Stephen Webster has created a mosquito ring for the Malaria No More charity ... more
Alan Titchmarsh has been forced to deny claims he is a sex guru after pranksters sabotaged his Wikipedia entry claiming he had penned an update of the Kama Sutra... more
Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National is my dream play. Yes, yes, it's a brilliant and chilling indictment of Soviet treatment of political dissidents... more
What is the ultimate family-friendly rodent? I ask because second son's Christmas list begins, "A pet rat", and concludes, "A big cage for the pet rat to exercise in". ... more
China has ordered the country's phone and internet companies to stop signing up customers in August to focus on providing services during the Olympic Games... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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