Feature: While the scandal continues to expose murky relations between a media empire, politicians and police, Nick Curtis details the unexpected fallout, from custard pies to leather trousers... more
Feature: With his hotel chain in administration, the colourful Andrew Davis would appear to be facing financial ruin. Was his empire built merely on loans and lavish PR?... more
There's much ado in London theatre at the moment but it must be about something. Why else would this Elizabethan rom-com, Much Ado About Nothing, boast two openings in the same week? ... more
At 26, Simon Rich has already sold three film scripts to Hollywood, is a writer for Saturday Night Live and has just published his first novel. It’s an old-fashioned comic tale, he tells Tom Teodorczuk
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We need to pull ourselves together. Nick Clegg put it pretty well at the weekend when he dismissed the Gina Ford method — for non-breeders, that's a faddy way of rearing your babies with all the warmth and tenderness of a Burmese junta — as “absolute nonsense”... more
Love him or loathe him, Adam Sandler is in London to promote his latest film, Funny People. Here, he attempts to explain his extraordinary draw.... more
He's best known for staging a re-enactment of the battle that defined the 1984 miners' strike - so why is Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller putting up scarecrows outside the new Louis Vuitton store at Westfield?... more
It's the latest internet craze - spoof scientific charts and diagrams based on the titles of pop songs and the artists who performed them. So can you name the song and singer for each of these?
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If Phil Nichol's latest Edinburgh set does not top last year's turbo-charged tale, which culminated in the sweaty Canadian body-surfing naked over the audience, it is a pretty serviceable sequel.... more
The Bolshoi Ballet's new Corsaire is a riot of plot twists, mood swings, and flouncy trousers, with the pirates (corsairs) fighting each other, fighting the eunuchs and rescuing the slave girls.... more
Enduring cabaret twosome Kit and The Widow are about as cool as a Gareth Gates album but their patter, charm and risqué lyrical gymnastics will win you over. ... 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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