Good to see Mick and Keith taking their roles as elder statesmen of rock appropriately seriously.
The sixty-something Strolling Bones have just told Amy Winehouse not to do drugs like they did because, apparently, substances in the naive, innocent 1960s were …
Andrew Marr: Well Serge, briefly now because we have to go soon, what evidence do you have for saying that Carla Bruni never wanted to marry Nicolas Sarkozy?
Serge (Baltherskite’s chief celebrity interviewer): I never said that.
AM: But it says here..anyway, …
And various other places besides. But, as she faces the last big round of primaries in the US, Hillary Clinton is definitely up against it.
Barack Obama has been sweeping up lots of small states (and not just those with a …
The short answer is No.
Premiership CEO Peter Scudamore was brought in to be a professional manager: tidy up the organisation, maximise revenue opportunities and keep the clashing egos of Premiership owners in some kind of kilter.
And he’s succeeded. The Premiership …
Serge: ‘Allo, who is that?
Carla: It’s me!
Serge ‘Ooo?
Carla: Me you muppet, the first lady of France!
Serge: Carla, ma cherie, sorry it’s a bad line
(noises off: Serge, what are you doing?)
Carla: Who was that Serge?
Serge: Oh, the cleaner
Carla: I bet it …
One, because it’s a Muslim country and we don’t believe in messing with those.
Two, because it might upset the Chinese and they’re hosting the Olympics (and we don’t believe in mixing up stuff like culture and sport with politics, and …
A French engineer has invented a car that runs on compressed air.
Given the reams of subtly phrased and elegantly composed vapourings that have emanated from French thinkers over the centuries this would seem entirely appropriate.
Cheap jokes aside, this is a …
Robert Fellowes, now Lord Fellowes, Princess Diana’s brother-in-law and former private secretary to the Queen, is being accused by Mohammed Fayed’s legal team of orchestrating his sister-in-law’s murder from a ‘command centre’ in the British Embassy in Paris.
He says he …
