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Diary: Time for Ed to come out as the Black Baron's pal
Could Ed Balls' darkest hour herald the breaking of a glorious dawn?
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Diary: One to hang in the attic
Friday, 23 July 2010
Hillary Clinton was in Hanoi yesterday, where Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister, Pham Gia Khiem, presented her with a portrait of her and her daughter Chelsea wearing traditional Vietnamese conical hats called non la
Diary: Rapping the news today
Thursday, 22 July 2010
What's worse for a rapper keen to keep his cool in middle-age: an arrest for a serious crime, like carrying a loaded weapon, or one for a minor misdemeanour, like not wearing a seat belt?
Diary: You must be joking, Stewart
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Comedian Stewart Lee is not amused by an online vote to find a "comedy god" among the past winners of (and nominees for) the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award and its predecessor, the Perrier
Diary: Jilted Flo's literary love
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
The delightful Florence Welch, of Florence and the Machine, is a huge Bret Easton Ellis fan – so huge, in fact, she interrupted preparations for her London gig in Somerset House last Thursday to attend the GQ launch party for his new novel, Imperial Bedrooms. But is Bret a fan of hers?
Matthew Norman's Diary: Voice of liberty silenced by courts... and The Sun
Monday, 19 July 2010
And so it ended, Jon Gaunt's career as SunTalk's Voice of Free Speech, not with a bang or even a whimper, but with deafening dead air. One minute there he was, Gaunty, up at the Court of Appeal, challenging Ofcom's censure over his depiction of a councillor as a "Nazi" on the most convincing human rights grounds. The next, the case duly lost, News International marginally refined its plan to launch a digital station with Gaunty at the helm, into closing SunTalk at once and dropping the digital idea.
Diary: Sheriff Matthew lives on
Friday, 16 July 2010
We had it on rather good authority that Matthew MacFadyen was miffed to find his role in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood was minimal
Diary: Novel approach to fashion
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Rappers who act, actors who paint, writers who design fashion lines: here at the Diary, we always appreciate a renaissance man.
Diary: Say hello to my little ad
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
You can tell that the new commercial for Australia's Vittoria coffee is tasteful, because it's in black and white, like La Dolce Vita. And it has a soundtrack by Nick Drake. And Al Pacino is in it.
Diary: Dizzee with delight
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Party of the year, we're assured, was the Serpentine Gallery's summer bash last week – to which Diary duly dispatched a reporter, hoping to garner some celebrity wisdom for your reading pleasure.
Diary: George gathering dust
Friday, 9 July 2010
Even committed political agitators need a hobby. In a blog for the Daily Record, George Galloway reveals he's working on – what else? – a musical about Dusty Springfield.
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