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Playmate on the way for Kate Winslet's daughter Mia

Kate Winslet's eightyearold daughter Mia is about to have either a halfbrother or a halfsister. The Titanic star's former husband Jim Threapleton tells Mandrake that his second wife Julie is expecting a baby.

Alan Watkins: Brown's control of the crisis is illusory

In Anthony Crosland's last phase, at the Environment and then in his short spell as Foreign Secretary before his early death in 1977, his relations with Iceland had been troubled. The cause was the Cod War. HMG did not send a...

There are rewards for us all in this crunch

Do cheer up. There is no such thing as all bad news. Every cloud has a silver lining. Most Britons are still in work and a third of them are on secure state incomes. In the words of Rudy Giuliani, the New York mayor, after...

John Rentoul: The week Gordon met his ERM

It has been a good week for David Cameron. In fact, it may be that we will look back and say that last week was when he won the general election. This is not how Labour MPs saw it, in their battle delirium. Gordon Brown was...

Siren of our times - Katherine Jenkins interview

Published Date: 12 October 2008 KATHERINE Jenkins, the classical music sex-bomb, wants to meet me in Notting Hill, among all the antique shops that are sent up so splendidly in Harry Enfield's current TV entertainment. The 10...

Dinner with......Michael Caines

Published Date: 12 October 2008 AWARDED his second Michelin star while head chef at Gidleigh Park in 1999, Michael Caines – who lost his right arm in a road accident – launched his eponymous restaurant group the same year....

Bizarre Bazaar 2 Playlist

Guy Manning - Margaret Montgomery from Anser's TreePhideaux - The Waiting from The Great LeapCredo - Skintrade from RhetoricCrimson Sky - Only Love from the Ep Only LoveRusty Gold - Track 2 from Chapter 1Nemo - Introduction a...

So Much for Bush's 'Ownership Society'

Remember the ownership society? President George W. Bush championed the concept when he was running for re-election in 2004, envisioning a world in which every American family owned a house and a stock portfolio, and government...

What do we want? Nationalisation. When do we want it? Any minute now

ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, PART 2: An essay by Ian Bell AS THE soundtrack to the definitive disaster movie echoes around the planet, a low background whine can be detected. We heard it again in Britain last week when the government...

Blairs Ditch Their Luxury Apartment

2:36pm UK, Saturday October 11, 2008 Former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie are selling a flat they bought with the help of a convicted fraudster. The Blairs are selling off their controversial Bristol flat The...