Whether Quince can pull off the elusive double of contenting residents who just want to eat in while also being worth the detour for outsiders, I doubt... 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
Burke & Hare is an excursion into Ealing comedy territory with a smart cast led by Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the two hopeless 19th-century grave-robbers... more
There is deepening anxiety among rich London investors who bought into a £280 million Caribbean development. Now building has suddenly been halted and Andrew Lloyd Webber is at the forefront of moves to investigate the delays... more
Media analysis: As the recession begins to deepen, we can expect the courts to issue an increasing number of injunctions against independent financial advisers... more
There's nothing sadder than a bunch of unemployable has-beens rising up like the witches in Macbeth and moaning 'TV is unfair to us because we're old'.... more
It seems as if everyone's holidaying in Britain this year. So what happened when the Mail asked shameless hedonist Michael Winner to take a break in Bognor Regis? Hold on to your kiss-me-quick hats.
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During a talk which was supposed to focus on raising money for conservation work, John Cleese launched a tirade against his estranged third wife. ... more
The pair set off on a six-day road trip to Switzerland to consolidate their extraordinary bond over fondues, lake views and somewhat lively debates over directions – or lack of them.... more
In his classic 1940 book Where Are The Customers' Yachts?, Fred Schwed Jr takes on the follies of Wall Street in a way never bettered since. By his telling, Wall Street is a kindergarten full of incurable romantics, children who really believe all that guff they spout even as it is being proven spectacularly wrong... more
Using the arrest of John Gielgud as the pivot of his play, Nicholas de Jongh gives himself the opportunity for wit that ranges from polished Wildean repartee to vulgarities worthy of Kenneth Williams.... more
It has a dining room that's as hard to get into as Madonna's leotard, and it's been doing it for 40 years. Marina O'Loughlin toasts the success that is Le Gavroche.... more
The closure of that Chiswick landmark, Fouberts, was a great loss. But it's replacement, High Road Brasserie, is so lovely that maybe progress ain't so bad after all.... more
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