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The cubist: how Jay Jopling created the artist as superstar

16.10.09

Nearly everything that happens in London's contemporary art scene has been influenced, if not dictated, by Jay Jopling. From his White Cube HQ, the superdealer brokers sales, spots talent and dreams up sell-out shows... more

The world's top 50 universities

08.10.09

University College London has risen above Oxford in this year's world university rankings, it was announced today... more

The dark side of free love: Mamas and Papas

28.09.09

The incestuous, drug-fuelled relationship between Mamas and Papas star John Phillips and his daughter Mackenzie has cast a different light on the era of peace and love. One London writer who survived the early Seventies remembers how boundaries were blurred and lives ruined... more

The bookshop band Mumford & Sons

11.09.09

Mumford & Sons are leading lights in the new literary London folk scene that everyone wants to join. Singer Marcus Mumford talks Steinbeck and Shakespeare... more

Will Gompertz is light on laughs

10.08.09

Edinburgh Comedy: Will Gompertz's act is good clean fun but as close to stand-up as Rothko is to Ricky Gervais.... more

Facial symmetry linked to mental health in men

10.08.09

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Kasabian are fire-raisers

23.07.09

Kasabian's reputation as a formidable, rabble-rousing live act was confirmed by a relatively intimate show for 3,000 iTunes competition winners.... more

Deep thinkers on the Piccadilly line...

21.05.09

A London reading group that meets in pubs up and down the Piccadilly line has been named one of the top book clubs in the country... more

Rowling quits as patron of MS charity split by strife

09.04.09

JK Rowling has quit as patron of the MS Society Scotland, claiming the charity is being riven by an internal row... more

You’ll work for free or not at all, graduates warned

11.02.09

Graduates will be forced to work for free for the first time in a generation as firms axe jobs, employers warned... more

I’ve had it with buying gifts for my man

04.12.08

December is here again and I am still stuck for gift ideas ... more

High Street heads for a bleak Christmas

23.10.08

The High Street is headed for the emergency room this Christmas, according to the latest in-depth survey of the health of the retail sector... more

Woe on high seas as well as High Street

23.10.08

While there is nothing but gloom on the High Street, with predictions of the most dismal Christmas ever, it could be worse for the retailers — they could be trying to sell satnav for the world’s smartest yachts... more

GPs 'could become as hard to find as NHS dentists'

08.10.08

Finding a GP in London could soon be as difficult as signing up with an NHS dentist, a health expert warns... more

A future Tory Cabinet ... at least according to Tatler

09.09.08

Ten young Conservatives - billed as the party's stars of the future - have been transformed from dour political animals to fashionable clothes horses... more

Cyclist Chris Hoy celebrates triple gold

19.08.08

A trip to the cinema inspired Chris Hoy to take up cycling and set him on the path to Olympic history... more

My fight to save my fertility (and how I survived Sir Alan)

12.08.08

Radio shows, TV presenting - the offers have rolled in since Lucinda Ledgerwood was fired from The Apprentice. But alternative medicine is where her passion lies ... more

Lucinda Ledgerwood fights back

12.08.08

Radio shows, TV presenting – the offers have rolled in since Lucinda Ledgerwood was fired from The Apprentice. But alternative medicine is where her passion lies.... more

What would Harry say? Emma Watson gets flirty with THREE dashing men at the polo

28.07.08

Her onscreen character, the uptight Hermione Granger, would almost certainly have disapproved. But Harry Potter actress Emma Watson proved she is a freer spirit as she partied at Cartier Polo. ... more

'Mum died before I could tell her about Harry Potter' says JK Rowling

22.07.08

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is tormented by the fact her sick mother never knew of her success.... more

Pictured: Twiggy's little twiglet stars alongside her famous mother in her first modelling assignment

04.07.08

Ever since she was a teenager, Carly Lawson has resisted the temptation to follow in her famous mother's footsteps. But at the age of 29, Twiggy's daughter has finally given in. ... more

Apprentice loser Michael Sophocles drowns his sorrows after revelations about his 'escort' past

27.05.08

The Apprentice reject Michael Sophocles was spotted drowning his sorrows last night amidst revelations he once worked as a male escort to pay off gambling debts.... more

Food guru Gillian McKeith reveals the agony of her deformed back

24.05.08

She's been called a dwarf, a midget pipsqueak and even a turkey wrapped in Bacofoil. Well here's what her tormentors don't know... she suffer from scoliosis - a severe abnormal curvature of the spine.... more

Fawn James, the Ł650m queen of Soho, hits a club on her manor

28.03.08

Porn heiress Fawn James enjoyed a night out in Mayfair last night, just a stone's throw away from neighbouring Soho, where her late grandfather Paul Raymond made his millions through a porn and property empire. The 22-year-old, who is expected to take a large slice of Raymond's Ł650 million fortune following his death last week, spent the night partying at Embassy ... more