Lord and Lady Carnarvon, who own the castle where the TV drama is filmed, have attracted a group of influential people to their weekend parties. Joshi Herrmann reveals the cast... more
Matthew Freud collected an increased dividend worth around £1.5 million from his public relations firm Freud Communications last year, despite a slide in profits... more
M&C Saatchi, the advertising agency for the Tory party and insurer Direct Line, gave a bullish verdict on the UK marketing industry after revenues jumped by almost a quarter in the first half of the year... more
Anthony Bolton, Fidelity's star fund manager, decamped to Hong Kong last year to manage his firm's new China Special Situations fund investing in Chinese businesses... more
David Cameron, police officers and Rupert Murdoch's editors will give evidence under oath to the phone hacking inquiry, the Standard has learned... more
James Murdoch faces the possibility of being investigated by police over the evidence he gave to Parliament. It also emerged the judge leading the hacking inquiry is linked to News Corp chief's son-in-law... more
As the media mogul's family gather in London to offer support, there was one person missing - his daughter Elisabeth, who was said to be on holiday with her husband Matthew Freud... more
So what happens when William Cohan's Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule The World is entered for the FT Business Book of the Year? ... more
Guardian Media Group continues to shrink its empire under new chief executive Andrew Miller, who is making redundant the position of Tim Brooks, the managing director in charge of The Guardian and The Observer... more
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has agreed to buy his daughter Elisabeth's London TV production company, Shine, maker of hit shows such as Masterchef and Ashes to Ashes... more
Matthew Freud’s public relations firm Freud Communications bucks the recession with a 28% increase in pre-tax profits to £6.7 million last year... more
PR Week magazine has unveiled its Power Book of the most influential public relations practitioners, based partly on the opinions of “20 senior professional journalists”, and there are a few surprises... more
Being a mother is a one-way ticket to scrutiny. Are you there too much and thus pushy (as in, I am assertive, you are pushy, she is the mother from hell)? Or not there enough and thus a wickedly self-absorbed career hag? ... more
Sir Clement Freud, who died this week, was just one member of a colourful family dynasty that continues to leave its mark on us, as Sebastian Shakespeare reports... more
At the Electric Cinema, where Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch had invited le tout Notting Hill to watch Barack Obama's inauguration on the big screen, everyone started chattering when the poet came on... more
Sir Mick Jagger left a Christmas party in unusual fashion - by karate-chopping his way through the crowd of photographers assembled on the pavement... more
This is the heart of the social scene, with the names that make the social circuit turn and add the glitter to the parties the capital does so well
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