Archive for March, 2009

Liz to launch her own Duchy Originals

All-round celeb, and now organic livestock farmer in the Cotswolds, Elizabeth Hurley is to launch her own brand of organic meat via Prince Charles’ Duchy Originals (which actually refers to Cornwall, but never mind).

Liz actually used to be a proper …

Serge talks to Christine Lagarde

Serge Poniatowski (Blatherskite’s chief celebrity interviewer): Well Christine, you are another member of Nic’s harem?

Christine Lagarde (French finance minister): I will ignore that. What do you want to talk about?

Serge: The G20. Nic Sarkozy says ‘ere that ‘e’s going to walk …

Fred the Shred’s pension OK says Tom

Former RBS chairman Sir Tom McKillop has defended former CEO Sir Fred Goodwin’s ludicrous £703,000 a year pension by saying there was a need for a “consensual” departure, ie they had to be nice to Fred otherwise he might have left …

Has Street View nailed cheating footballer?

Google Street View that is, the new spy on every street corner.

The Sun reports today that a lady is consulting divorce lawyers after seeing her husband’s Range Rover outside the home of a friend on Street View.

She didn’t see him but …

It’s the Yank versus the Uzbek at Arsenal

It looks like another American might be about to take over one of the Premiership’s elite clubs, but at least he’s paying for it with his own money (unlike the Glazers at Manchester United and Messrs Gillett and Hicks at …

MPs in a lather about expenses revelations

When Mr Blatherskite first took up his quill pen he was sat down by a cross-looking news editor and told the facts of life.

Namely how to fill in an expenses form and to make sure that he didn’t finish all …

M&S’ Rose wrongfoots the City again

Those ‘teenage scribblers’, otherwise known as City analysts, really should know better by now.

For a week they’ve been telling us that Marks & Spencer sales were heading to the knacker’s yard with some of the dimmest among them advising executive …

Police gas hack in Commons fight

Not that the offending scribbler will gain much sympathy from the public or MPs.

A row broke out between two journalists last night at a reception hosted by Tory Eric Pickles and continued in a room near to the Chamber when …

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