The political comeback of Peter (Lord) Mandelson is truly one of the wonders of the age so we maybe shouldn’t be surprised at his barnstorming performance at the Labour Party conference yesterday, or the mass adulation that ensued.
Of course Gordon Brown …
Octogenarian Cuban leader Fidel Castro has fathered around ten children according to a new book by US author Anne Louise Bardach.
Most of these emanate from the 1950s apparently when former medic Castro was in and out of jail under the Batista regime. …
A new ICM poll in today’s News of the World purports to show a glimmer of hope for Gordon Brown and Labour in the forthcoming election with the Conservative lead cut to 14, with the Tories on 40, Labour on 26 …
Former Sky boss Tony Ball wanted £30m over five years to take over from Michael Grade at ITV. Too much, thought the ITV board, belatedly.
But Grade, who’s actually done a pretty good job at ITV in dire circumstances, has said …
Fresh from being snubbed by Barack Obama (five times apparently) UK PM Gordon Brown put Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi (he may have promoted himself since) firmly in his place when he followed him onto the United Nations rostrum today.
The mad old …
The world is still comprised of people who are OK and lots and lots who are unbelievably poor (including many in the dear old UK). And a few others who have much more money than they should have without the …
Britain and the United States will always have a ‘special relationship‘ because the US used to be a British colony (we nicked it from the French and the Dutch) and George lV is still regarded fondly in the environs of …
Not so according to the chatroom pundits who seem rather disappointed that the poor bloke didn’t get more badly injured playing for Saracens at the weekend (he just bashed a rib but will be available to captain England in the autumn …
