Hero of the Sixties counter-culture Michael Horovitz tells Tim Willis why it would take uncommon sense for him to be appointed Oxford professor of Poetry on Friday.... more
Leadership, says Nelson Mandela to Springboks rugby captain Francois Pienaar in the film Invictus, is more than example. It is about inspiration. It's a message that's yet to reach the Westminster North Tories... more
Japanese model Jessica Michibata has bagged herself the grand prize of Formula 1 champion Jenson Button. She tells Sophie Gilbert about their high-octane romance... more
New 'eco-index' charting the environmental impact of Britain’s favourite groceries has crowned Persil laundry powder the greenest supermarket product and Haribo sweets the worst... more
Eternal batchelor Hugh Grant gave the impression he was a gooseberry when he went on a Mediterranean cruise last month with former girlfriend Liz Hurley and her husband Arun Nayar.... more
Newlywed Coleen McLoughlin was lucky to have her husband Wayne Rooney on hand to spray her with Evian as she basked yet again in the blistering Las Vegas heat on her honeymoon.... more
Getting an authentic brasserie right was no problem for proprietor Claudio Pulze, as David Sexton explains. Brasserie St Jacques is the 51st restaurant he has opened.... more
Delighted to be able to sign up to this newspaper's campaign to make London restaurants offer their clientele tap water as a matter of course. It's long been difficult for the cynics among us not to imagine that somewhere, deep in the bowels of the establishment, there isn't a bus boy resolutely refilling fancy bottles from a rusty faucet - especially if those bottles have reusable lids and are blazoned with the restaurant's own logo... more
If you haven't managed to get hold of tickets for this year's London Fashion Week, head to Harvey Nichols Fifth Floor café to watch all the latest action from the catwalk.... more
Keane's unique brand of posh'n'roll entertained the enamoured audience of competition winners at an intimate gig in a cosy thirs storey studio room off Oxford Street.... more
After a painful divorce and critical failure, Victoria Wood is back with a new version of Acorn Antiques and enjoying single life, says Bruce Dessau.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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