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Mariella Frostrup: Everyone's best friend (especially George Clooney)
Sunday, 6 July 2008
Did she do it with George Clooney? Sorry, but I just can't get that question out of my head, even as Mariella Frostrup demolishes an acclaimed work of literature in her famously husky voice. "The stuff in italics is dreadful tosh," she says of The Life of Pi. "I don't know how people read it. I started skipping."
Sir Simon Jenkins: History man
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Sir Simon Jenkins is so grand that he really should be bought and preserved by the National Trust, so that successive generations can admire the wondrous architecture and exquisite furniture of his mind. Instead, the trust has chosen him to be its next chairman.
My Secret Life: Martha Lane Fox, Entrepreneur, age 35
Saturday, 5 July 2008
The home I grew up in... We moved around a lot, between Oxfordshire and London. I was happiest between the ages of 11 and 16, living in north Oxfordshire. I spent most of my time meeting boys and going to parties.
Hooray for Henry: The curious world of Henry Conway
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Henry Conway is the older son of the "disgraced" Tory MP Derek Conway, the one who paid his younger son, Freddie, nearly £50,000 from public funds for doing Parliamentary work that he may not actually have done, and now stands accused of doing much the same with Henry. Still, no mind. As Henry is now a brain surgeon as well as our foremost cancer specialist it was, at least, taxpayers' money exceedingly well spent whichever way it pans out. OK, only joshing. Henry, 25, is the one who describes himself as "blond, bouncy and one for the boys" and who, shortly after the scandal broke, arrived at Mahiki, a Mayfair nightclub, in a horse-drawn carriage and dressed as a regency dandy. Actually, thinking this through, do we own that horse-drawn carriage? Did we pay for it? And might we have it back? (Stupid, I know; where would we keep the horses? I can't have them here.)
Ray Lewis: Meteoric rise, and fall, of radical thinker
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Ray Lewis was an inspirational black community leader who appeared to have a golden touch when it came to tackling under-valued and under-motivated children from the ethnic minorities.
The 5-minute Interview: Michelle Williams, Singer
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Williams, 27, is a member of the R&B; group Destiny's Child. In 2002 her debut solo album was the biggest selling gospel album of the year. Her new album, 'Unexpected', is released next month.
Patrick Head: 'Silverstone is emasculated... it's just another track now'
Friday, 4 July 2008
Patrick Head is still a resounding big shot in the world of Formula One, despite moving "sideways", and in truth a little downwards, from the job of technical director at Williams, the company he co-founded with Frank Williams more than 30 years ago, to that of engineering director. So it is a surprise to find him, by his own admission, having to do a spot of "meeting and greeting" at the team's Oxfordshire compound. Our conversation in the company boardroom is scarcely five minutes old when Head receives a call asking him to go to reception. The World Superbike champion James Toseland has arrived, and needs some gladhanding.
The 5-minute Interview: Wayne Hemingway, Designer
Friday, 4 July 2008
Hemingway, 47, co-founded the fashion label Red or Dead with his wife, later selling it in a multimillion-pound deal. He now runs Hemingway Design, their company, which specialises in affordable, well-designed housing and is helping to promote Sony's Giga Juke music system
David Millar: Setting an example after the scandals
Thursday, 3 July 2008
It's been almost a year since David Millar was sitting in a Tour de France press conference in Pau when the bombshell news broke that one of the biggest pre-race favourites, Alexandre Vinokourov, had tested positive for blood doping.
Devil's advocate: The world's most notorious lawyer defends himself
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Quick quiz: what two things do the following people have in common: Ian Brady, Harold Shipman, Jeremy Bamber, Nicholas van Hoogstraten and Saddam Hussein? Answer: whether alive or dead, they are all notoriously bad people. And all have been legally represented, or so we are told, by Giovanni di Stefano.
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