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Bonfire of the inanities

  • 26 June 2008
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Never-sent love letters and the confidential stories of sources . . . they are among my most valued possessions and, unlike Jeanette, I couldn't just destroy them

Sir Alan, the dodgy tapes and the bum shot

  • 19 June 2008

Tuesday was the big debut - an interview with Alan Sugar. This seriously impressed my friends, but not Sir Alan. "I don't know why my people agreed to this," he said, as he walked in an hour late

On being beastly to prisoners

  • 12 June 2008
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Whoever thought it was appropriate to name the prisons of the 21st century after Titan must have been out of his or her mind

Scandalous men and terrifying women

  • 05 June 2008

Loose Women want to run a clip of me interviewing someone interesting, so they call Newsnight. And I'm busted. Totally

Having a laugh at those low political moments

  • 29 May 2008
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I can't get Cherie Blair out of my mind. Why do people dislike her so much? Is it the old prejudice about clever, mouthy women?

Secrets, lies and the Blairs

  • 22 May 2008
  • 7 comments

Cherie suddenly brought forward the publication of her book to coincide with mine. To top it off, she claimed I didn't "know anything" about her husband and Gordon

Nuts about grass

  • 15 May 2008
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Many British Columbians are rather disappointed to learn that Quebec has overtaken their province as the number one producer and exporter of cannabis

Released from Brixton clink

  • 08 May 2008
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"Out already Peter?" came the decidedly resentful tones of Detective Sergeant "Sniffer" of West End Central Crime Squad. "If you wouldn't mind showing me what's in your bag"

Brush up your Shakespeare

  • 01 May 2008

I have an almost fatal risk gene in my makeup. It seemed folly to take this on having never read or seen the play. But soon I was sharing the director's enthusiasm measure for measure

Safety first - but not for children

  • 24 April 2008

You can't carry a cup of hot coffee on a train, or smoke in a public place - but if you're a teenager you know for a fact you'll be attacked on the street

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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