The historian Niall Ferguson is urbane and telegenic, unflinching about the future of unbridled China, scornful of primitive societies who don't have their eye on the main chance... more
Religion may do more good than harm in general but the exceptions are dramatic enough to hand irresistible flourishes to those arguing against it... more
Ever since Christopher Hitchens, the famously atheist author, discovered he had cancer, Christians have been praying for his recovery and urging him to find God... more
My heart bleeds for Naomi Campbell - she had to go on holiday with a bunch of celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and his Israeli model girlfriend Bar Rafaeli... more
There is always a moment when what little bit of spirit you salvaged in the sun and smuggled back to the real world disintegrates in your hands.
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The Martin Amis/Anna Ford exchange about what may or may not have happened 22 years ago over the deathbed of her husband Mark Boxer is a storm in a tea cup... more
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
Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading.
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London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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