So where are we supposed to rank the Liam Fox affair? Is it Profumo, in which national defence is endangered by blurring the line between love and war? Or is it a matter for the zealous new Bribery Act? Is it Whitewater? Is it Watergate?... more
Who match-made Madonna, got Kate Moss on stage with Pink Floyd and filled the capital with multicoloured elephants? Olivia Cole meets the London alchemists who make the impossible possible... more
Sting and his wife Trudie Styler are telling the love story of German composer Robert Schumann and musician Clara Wieck on a fundraising venture to introduce thousands to opera for the first time... more
Guy Ritchie was accompanied by Trudie Styler at George Clooney's party, which was the second time this week he has kindly chaperoned Sting's wife.... more
They are keen to put on a public show of unity, but after an hour waiting for Madonna on the red carpet Guy Ritchie began to look at little strained.... more
Madonna may have to postpone the planned celebrations for her 50th birthday party on Saturday. The singer is reported to have sprained her left ankle and was pictured at the weekend with it heavily bandaged.
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The audience at the final Police concert was calling out for more. But when Sting came back on stage, there was less of him - his scruffy grey beard was missing... more
Anyone engaged to Hollywood actress Uma Thurman would want to shout about it. So it was not surprising that Arpad 'Arki' Busson, the hedge fund tycoon and philanthropist, should decide to invite pretty much all of London's A-list celebrities to his home in Kensington to show off his fiancee.
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An astonishing charity dinner last night, at which Tony Blair was the guest speaker and Stevie Wonder gave his first major performance in London for nearly a decade, raised more than £25 million for the world's poorest children.... more
Perhaps it was the free-flowing refreshments, or it could even have been religious fervour. But whatever the reason, an evening with Madonna left some of her famous friends looking a little unsteady on their feet... more
With 500 stands, the Real Food Festival at Earls Court is Britain's largest ever farmers' market. Paying it a visit may even improve your culinary skills.... more
Singers Mick Jagger and Jamie Cullum were left looking positively pint-sized last night as they arrived with their statuesque girlfriends at a charity banquet in London... more
It was the charity banquet with a difference, a £1,000-ahead five-course meal made of ingredients all grown, plucked or fished from in and around London... more
Taking the pregnant pauses and wordless looks out of Alpha Male would be an improvement but Dan Wilde's film does have a certain fascination of its own and grips even when it is at its most irritating.... more
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