Claudia Schiffer, Natalia Vodianova and Sam Taylor-Wood have all startled us with their fabulous new-mother glow. The latest to join their ranks is Samantha Cameron... more
As the first leader of a major political party to be living, and raising a child, out of wedlock, Ed Miliband is pilloried by some on the old-style Right for his "unorthodox" lifestyle. That choice of word - precisely wrong - betrays a longing for the world to be other than it is, as if just saying it would make it true.... more
It’s not the W11 he knows and loves, says Tim Lott, but with its bizarre characters and ludicrous set-ups Seven Days could become compulsive car-crash television... more
Hundreds of angry supporters of the Portobello Road market are staging a rally to protest against a huge fashion store that supplanted a long-standing antiques arcade... more
The call by Richard Curtis and his merry men for a tax on international financial transactions is well timed but a fierce battle looms with American banks... more
Last London Fashion Week I went to a show held in a church. It was a beautiful church, straight out of a Richard Curtis film; the sort of church that makes you wish you went to church more... 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
Gordon Brown suggested yesterday that he had more important issues than MPs’ expenses to deal with, such as the G20 and saving the globe, and in one way he is right... more
He reinvented the feelgood British comedy — but Richard Curtis takes it too far in smutty tribute to Sixties pirate radio, The Boat That Rocked.... more
A mother of eight living on housing benefit in a £2.6million home provided by her London council has said: "I'm not going to pretend it isn't great"... more
More than 100 award-winning producers, directors and writers called for action to tackle illegal downloads of films and TV shows which they say are threatening jobs... more
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