Did you know that Prince William and Prince Harry avoid getting their shoes mixed up at Clarence House by inking the letters W and H on the soles?
That'll be very useful information should you find yourself playing Twister up at Balmoral this summer... more
Author Salman Rushdie today called on the Chinese authorities to free dissident artist Ai Weiwei, calling its government 'the world's biggest threat to freedom of speech'... more
Ha ha ha ha! That is, roughly, what we all say as we watch the News of the World's discomfiture over revelations that the illegal interception of voicemails was rife in there during Andy Coulson's time as editor... more
Charity auction is giving people the chance to get inside the minds of some of Britain's most successful figures in business, sports and entertainment... more
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the postal strike (and I am sure there are rights and wrong on both sides), I've already given up on my post. I don't recall it ever being so inefficient in my lifetime. ... more
One thousand hours of archive recordings of leading figures from Salman Rushdie to Quentin Crisp are going online for the first time at the British Library... more
A campaign to help people learn the art of happiness is set to be launched. The woman behind it explains why now especially we all need a smile... more
There should be a word — do the Germans have one? I bet the Germans have one — to describe the emotion of just having missed delivery of a fridge... 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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It is Eid today, the Muslim festival marking the end of the arduous month of Ramadan, when we give up food and drink from sunrise to sunset. We should be feasting after fasting... more
The latest epic from Salman Rushdie and the hotly tipped story of post-9/11 America by Joseph O'Neill have failed to make the Man Booker shortlist... more
Sir Salman Rushdie has accepted an unreserved apology in the High Court from a former police driver who claimed the author had profited from the fatwa on his life... more
Salman Rushdie, already winner of this year's Best of Booker Prize for Midnight's Children and shortlisted three times previously, is once again among those in line to win the literary award... more
In a new book ex-Special Branch detective RON EVANS tells of his toughest job - protecting Salman Rushdie and the girl he was desperate to get into bed.... more
Director Jude Kelly has worked some magic with London revivals of Carmen Jones and On the Town. But can The Wizard of Oz succeed as a musical?.... more
Sir Salman Rushdie, the 61-year-old author has let it be known that a year after the collapse of his fourth marriage, he is once more in the mood for love. ... more
Is Sir Salman Rushdie the luckiest man on earth? Quite possibly, if these photos of him nuzzling Scarlett Johansson's neck in her new music video are anything to go by. The controversial author, who it's fair to say is not classically handsome, makes a cameo appearance in the actress-turned-singer's Falling Down, the first single from her upcoming album... more
Since 1914, the White House Correspondents' Dinner has been the highlight of political journalism's social calendar, an evening where the president of the day can poke fun at his public image. But it's a fair bet that no Commander in Chief has ever faced an audience quite like the one George W. Bush addressed last night - Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Ashlee Simpson and Heidi and Lauren from reality TV show The Hills
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