Eurocrats top list of new QCs
Eurocrat: Ken Clarke
The latest list of new QCs is headed by two honorary appointments – human rights lawyers Geoffrey Bindman and Professor Anthony Bradley, who was also a UK representative at the Council of Europe, the body which runs the Strasbourg-based human rights court.
Honorary QCs are in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke – who is a fervent supporter of all things European, including its human rights legislation.
Michael Gove has had a rough passage as Education Secretary but some friends think his eyes remain fixed on the top prize – the keys to No 10 – if David Cameron exhausts the patience of his party.
Although the affable Aberdonian doesn’t blow his own trumpet, his wife, journalist Sarah Vine, drops endearing remarks about him in newspaper columns and on the radio.
Yesterday she revealed that he’d taken seven attempts to pass his driving test. Irresistible!
Is Oscar-winning Natalie Portman the cleverest-ever Hollywood actress? The Harvard graduate has a string of awards and degrees.
The great 1930s star Hedy Lamarr, pictured, was an ex-rocket scientist who patented a torpedo-guidance system but she never won an Oscar.
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Frock designer John Galliano’s sacking by Dior after verbally abusing female customers in a Paris bar and shouting ‘I love Hitler’ isn’t the end of this story.
Galliano, 50, who has retained the London lawyers Harbottle & Lewis, was a huge asset to Dior, helping the firm’s turnover exceed a billion dollars.
But his Hitler remark caused special unease at the fashion house. Founder Christian Dior, who died in 1957, worked as a Paris couturier during the German occupation, dressing the wives of Nazi officers as well as French collaborators.
His niece, Françoise, married the British National Socialist leader Colin Jordan and was later convicted of arson attacks on Jewish buildings.
Actress Sienna Miller, pictured, says she supports the campaign to erect a memorial to the Wellington crews of Bomber Command, whose contribution to victory in World War Two has been overlooked.
Ms Miller, 29, starring in Trevor Nunn’s wartime theatrical drama Flare Path, was emotionally affected when some of the surviving airmen visited the cast at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
She says in an interview: ‘I asked, “Were you not terrified?” And they said. “No, we just did it. As soon as you’d let fear in, you’d die”.’
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Libyan TV says Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez called Colonel Gaddafi’s Tripoli bunker to say: ‘The Latin American peoples stand side by side and ready to make sacrifices in solidarity with the Libyan people and its leader, Muammar Gaddafi, in confronting this imperialist, Zionist conspiracy, which is targeting security, stability and its national unity.’
Is Chavez’s London chum, ex-mayor Ken Livingstone, preparing a pro-Gaddafi statement?
