Category: Media

Campbell on the brink, Gordon does them - tears that is

Is this how we really want these big tough beasts in the political jungle to behave? By crying I mean.

Tony Blair’s former media manipulator Alastair Campbell was apparently on the brink of tears as he defended his old boss Tony Blair’s …

Vanessa to reveal all to the News of the World

That’s Vanessa Perroncel, England captain John Terry’s lover and, according to Fleet Street papers who haven’t bought her revelations, perfectly happy to be handed around at Stamford Bridge at half time along with the oranges.

She’s hired Max Clifford to represent …

Beyonce is magnificent - but way over the top

Not the singing or the performance at the Grammy awards but all the accoutrements of girls on top, especially the ludicrous faux stormtroopers.

This is Hollywood doing what it’s best at but, as usual, forgetting that taste isn’t something you buy in …

Short’s Iraq account condemns Blair and his cronies

We were all led up the garden path about the war with Iraq and its consequences the former government minister Clare Short told the Iraq Inquiry today; the immediate consequence of which was lots of hacks implying that Ms Short …

The parralels twixt Tony Blair and Dr Brooke, belle de jour

Well they’re both media tarts and, it’s pretty inescapable, Belle comes out on top.

Blair appeared in front of the Chilcot inquiry into the war in Iraq and, according to most of the political hacks, came away unscathed because, after a …

Has Belle de Jour been making it up all along?

Well so some of our correspondents, like Paul (see comments) think.

Dr Brooke Magnanti, a research scientist at Bristol University, recently confessed to being the happy hooker of the Belle de Jour blog.

She even chatted cosily on ITV to Billie Piper, …

Airbrush nightmare for Dave Cameron

Would-be man of the people and Tory leader David Cameron should know better than to allow his portrait on an ad to be airbrushed (or Photoshopped as they say these days) - he’s not a bad looking bloke after all - …

Rod’s list of enemies goes to Westminster

Journalist and man about town Rod Liddle is looking rather hangdog these days.

Actually he looks a bit like an obscure breed of terrier who’s been left unprettified for the benefit of politically correct Crufts judges.

The putative Independent editor is getting …

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