The former Big Brother star at the centre of a media gagging storm broke down in tears today as she told how the ordeal had left her life 'in pieces'... more
Is it really true, as BBC director-general Mark Thompson claimed to the Lords Communications Committee, that there were only two candidates for the D-G's job which he got in 2004?... more
Journalists don't like gagging orders. So it was natural enough that they should feel less than delighted when one of their colleagues dared to obtain one to prevent coverage of a dalliance... more
New Labour has been worn away like a man carrying the burden of decades of struggle. The mantra "Change, or more of the same", will be the key to the next election... more
Broken society? What broken society? With no less insouciance than the sun-kissed Jim Callaghan in January 1979 denying that there was “mounting chaos”, New Labour refuses to accept that Britain is in the grip of what David Cameron aptly calls “social recession”... more
First Lynda La Plante attacks novels written by celebrities. "Publishers, stop spending your millions on this tripe," she said at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards earlier this month, singling out Katie Price for special opprobrium... more
Here we go again. The very week a nude photograph of actress Brooke Shields aged 10 has been removed from a Tate Modern exhibition, on police advice, we have Anna Friel appearing naked on the West End stage... more
I admire Andrew Marr’s work as a broadcaster and writer. He combines political sophistication and a deep knowledge of his subject with an almost boyish enthusiasm ... more
BBC licence fee in danger if the corporation continues to allow 'intrusive' journalism similar to Andrew Marr’s questions to Gordon Brown, Cabinet minister warns... more
Campaigner Erin Pizzey has accepted undisclosed libel damages over a claim in a book by Andrew Marr that she was a supporter of a British terror group... more
Forty writers, actors, musicians and artists, from Eric Clapton to Joanna Lumley, have produced an unusual self-portrait for an exhibition opening... more
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