The image that sticks of the Copenhagen summit is the YouTube clip of Gordon Brown ushering Al Gore into what turned out to be a broom cupboard... more
Whitehall's spin doctors are crafty. Last Thursday, while the row was raging about British National Party leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time and the Royal Mail strike was causing chaos, the Government slipped out the news that — after 10 months of discussion — it was refusing to back a compulsory register of lobbyists ... more
No one doubts Sir Alan Sugar produces good television, but there's never been a government appointment that has prompted such ridicule — and not a little discomfort... more
Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch who contentiously entertained Peter Mandelson and George Osborne on his yacht last summer, has been humbled by the global economic storm... more
Microsoft mogul Bill Gates has donated £5 million to Imperial College London towards the manufacture of a home test for Aids patients in developing countries ... more
Warren Buffett, America's most successful investor, is a man of clear vision. I know this because I once got hopelessly lost at Bill Gates's house looking for the loo and bumped into Mr Buffett, who pointed me in the right direction... more
Technology: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has played down recession fears, saying investment in new technologies will help drive the global economy ahead... more
Credit Crunch: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that support for humanitarian projects in the Third World will slump due to the financial meltdown... more
The BBC has come under fire over plans to axe TV business show The Money Programme as a regular series, just as Britain sinks into economic crisis.... more
Filings by News Corp in the US contain the information that, should anyone other than Rupert Murdoch take charge of the company, chief operating officer Peter Chernin is to receive $40 million... more
More students are dropping out of university than ever before - and one writer whose son did so says the education system must stop betraying them... more
Bidders paid more than £650,000 to buy a piece of Hollywood's coolest actor, including cars, trucks, motorcycles once belonging to the late Great Escape star Steve McQueen.... more
As comedians go, Andy Parsons is about as bankable as they come and his new show proves he is also a fully paid-up pupil of the Grumpy Old Men Comedy School.... more
Maximo Park's angular precision has won them loyal fans, and here the pop-punk songs came close to matching their specatacle, says John Aizlewood.... more
Sofia Coppola's boyfriend is lead singer and they won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album this year. Now, Phoenix tell Nosheen Iqbal, they are set to conquer London
Move over, Mahiki. Nightclub entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling are soon to launch a new Eighties-inspired club in Chelsea, in honour of Lady Thatcher
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