Chief celebrity interviewer Serge Poniatiowski is in Davos for the global summit. He sends this report from one of the surrounding peaks.
Serge: Are you OK?
Man in dark overcoat: Not really
Serge: What are you doing here? Are you lost?
Man: Are you?
Serge: I really hate …
Why?
Because it won’t be the Government that’s doing it, or it shouldn’t.
Hang on a minute, what is it? Right, it’s the notion that some companies are to be alowed to run qualification courses for their junior staff, up to A-level …
Lyndon Johnson, US president in the 1960s, once summed up the deputy presidency as worth “a bucket of cold piss.” Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of Labour 25 years later agreed, adding only that “you could take away the bucket.”
Gordon Brown …
Actually jockey Kieren Fallon is more a leader than a follower, the finest jockey of his generation and the best since Lester Piggott.
But trouble follows Fallon as assiduously as his rivals follow him home in the Arc de Triomphe or …
It’s a sad feature of the modern age that we’re constantly reminded of the depths to which human beings can sink.
Yet even hardened observers will flinch when they hear of this latest shocker.Britain’s Olympic sailors have been accused by the …
The Republicans look like they’re going to lose this election; they have no single strong candidate, the Bush administration has come out of the worst of Iraq (although it’s still bad, of course) only to be mired in the sub-prime …
Well actually they do, it’s one Jerome Kerviel, a junior trader at bank Societe Generale, who earns less than 100,000 euros a year (which puts him on a par with the cleaners – ie non-people - in the wonderful world …
Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain, who doubled up as Welsh Secretary, has finally quit after the police were brought in by the Electoral Commission to investigate all the donations to his deputy leadership campaign that he forgot about.
Many of …
