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Damien Hirst gets his hands dirty at last

14.10.09
Damien Hirst attends the opening of his new exhibition.... more

London's Libyan lobby

28.08.09
As Colonel Gaddafi's son suggests the Lockerbie bomber's release was linked to oil, we reveal how our capital has become the powerbase for Libya's rehabilitation... more

Peter's healthy sense of self-preservation

21.08.09
Time, tide and the prostate gland are no respecters of high office - as Peter Mandelson discovers on being admitted to St Mary's for treatment of an enlarged gland.... more

Mandy's mates: The Peter Mandelson diaspora

11.08.09
The country rests safe in the neatly manicured hands of Peter Mandelson: Gordon Brown's best frenemy and the man who exercises such a magnetic pull for protesters that an eco-suffragette promptly chained herself to his Regent's Park railings as he returned home to mind No 10's business for the week... more

Mandelson's in charge... from Corfu

07.08.09
Lord Mandelson's took over running Britain - from a holiday villa in Corfu... more

Must try harder, George. The City's not so easily taken in

27.07.09
A very senior banker asked me twice: "What do you think of George Osborne?" It was the way the question was asked and the repetition that gave me pause... more

Balkan troubles for Oleg Deripaska

15.05.09
It's not getting any better for Oleg Deripaska. He’s already lost the bulk of his fortune - now the government of Montenegro is seeking to nationalise his giant aluminium plant because his workers haven’t been paid since February.. ... more

Now Sir Fred enters hall of shame in US

25.02.09
Well done, Fred the Shred. Even the Americans are holding you responsible for the credit crunch.... more

Brutal times at Barclays as jobs axe falls

08.12.08
"Brutal Barclays" is what they are calling the bank these days. Internally, that is ... more

Intrigue over O’Reilly’s plans Down Under

13.11.08
Tongues are wagging in Australia about the resignation of Brendan Hopkins from the board of Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s Independent & News Media, just days after he signed a three-year extension to his contract as chief executive of the Independent’s APN News & Media subsidiary Down Under... more

There’s still such a thing as a free lunch

03.11.08
After being told last week that they will not receive their regular share of the firm's profits for the next six months, partners at City law firm Eversheds seem desperate to hold on to their perks... more

Now Brown is haunted by 'boom and bust'

27.10.08
Gordon Brown has always been good at hocus-pocus when it came to growth numbers... more

Talks with tycoon were a mistake, admits George Osborne

27.10.08
Senior Tory MP George Osborne has admitted making a "mistake" with his links to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska... more

Gordon is our saviour? EU must be joking

24.10.08
Few people in Britain have taken too seriously the claims by US Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman and other luminaries that Gordon Brown's recapitalisation of the banks means he is a global superhero... more

Gossip makes the world go round - thank God

24.10.08
IF THERE'S one invitation I regret turning down it's the one that Lord Rothschild extended to me on the request of Countess Maya Schoenburg... more

Mandelson named in spy files on oligarch

24.10.08
Lord Mandelson's relationship with the Russian oligarch at the centre of the "yachtgate" scandal is detailed in secret government intelligence files... more

Osborne in more trouble for Davis jibes to Mandy

23.10.08
George Osborne faced fresh embarrassment when it emerged that he had privately criticised David Davis in a conversation with Peter Mandelson... more

George Osborne is finding out that hell hath no fury like a host scorned

23.10.08
George Osborne committed a cardinal sin in Corfu by disclosing details of private discussions he had had with Lord Mandelson while staying at Nat Rothschild's villa... more

The £5 billion reason Rothschild knifed his friend George in the back

23.10.08
They've known each other for years, so why did Nat Rothschild betray the shadow Tory chancellor? At stake for the former playboy turned hedge fund boss is a fistful of mega-deals with the controversial oligarch Oleg Deripaska ... more

Mr Osborne has failed the Mrs Merton test

22.10.08
The Deripaska story has bitter lessons for the shadow chancellor - and his Labour rival... more

Bullingdon boy's fatal error was to cross Rothschild

22.10.08
AT a City lunch, Nat Rothschild sat quietly, waiting for others to speak. Given by one of the major private equity groups, it was a high-powered gathering. Among the guests were Marcus Agius, chairman of Barclays, Sir David Arculus, director of O2 and chairman of the Better Regulation Task Force and Ian Davis, managing partner of McKinsey. ... more

It's a question of judgment

22.10.08
IF GEORGE Osborne, the shadow chancellor, finds himself fighting for his political credibility, he has only himself to blame. When the question arose as to whether he had sought to solicit donations to the Tory Party from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska while on holiday in Corfu, he should have issued an entirely frank and full statement, or none at all. What he actually did was to declare that "we didn't ask for money; we didn't receive any". ... more

New twist as tycoon loses $6bn oil firm to Russian in Osborne donor row

22.10.08
A tycoon who clashed with Lord Mandelson's billionaire friend Oleg Deripaska has sought sanctuary in Britain... more

George Osborne on rack over Russian

21.10.08
Shadow chancellor George Osborne is at the centre of a mounting political crisis... more

Failure of a hedge giant 'may be next to stoke the crisis'

17.10.08
Finance: Mayfair, the centre of the London's hedge fund industry, is alive with speculation that one of the world's major hedge funds is set to collapse, bringing a fresh wave of selling and volatility on the world's stock markets... more

Fresh evidence links Mandelson to oligarch

14.10.08
As the controversial politician is ennobled and returns to government, we reveal new evidence that calls into question his links with Oleg Deripaska... more

Finance

08.10.08
Britain will look to the Square Mile to pull it out of the economic mire, and these are the big names who will deliver the recovery. ... more

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