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Diary: Cameron bonds with Bear
Bear Grylls and Dave Cameron, fellow Old Etonians – and, like myself, thriving survivors of Boarding School Syndrome – were recently introduced, Grylls tells me at a screening of his new Discovery Channel series Born Survivor.
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Diary: Let's not cash in on Pippa
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Designer Alice Temperley stubbornly refuses to "cash in" on the gown she created for Pippa Middleton to wear to the royal wedding reception.
Diary: River of woe for The Boss
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
It's been a bad week for The Boss. The great E Street saxophonist Clarence Clemons passed away on Saturday, just days after Richard Littlejohn had revealed himself as a lifelong Springsteen fan in his Daily Mail column.
Diary: At least Rio's got the memories
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
More dreadful news for Manchester United footballers and their marriages. An entire wing of Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, a 19th-century Gothic mansion that frequently hosts lavish wedding receptions, has been gutted by fire.
Diary: When Ed took a leaf out of Comical Ali's playbook
Monday, 20 June 2011
Father's Day found the nation's paterfamilias and his would-be replacement on captivating paternal form. We'll touch on the Prime Minister after doffing the cap to Ed Miliband, who told The Independent on Sunday that all residual fraternal tension has evaporated. "I'm just going to say," said Ed of his relationship with David, "that we have moved on." "Both of us," he soon went on, "have moved on." "I think what I would say," he added for clarification, "is that both of us have moved on." Tremendous. Who doesn't love a mantra from the Comical Ali playbook?
Diary: Dyson wipes floor with Sugar
Friday, 17 June 2011
Fans of The Apprentice will have noted that this week's victim of the 'boardroom' was Glen, a senior design engineer.
Diary: Unjustified fashion faux pas
Thursday, 16 June 2011
He's recorded two wonderful solo albums, acted in an Oscar-winning movie, dated some of the world's most beautiful women and even founded his own clothing line, William Rast.
Diary: Take That! (But don't party)
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Apocalyptic reports from Manchester, where more than 100 women have been admitted to A&E following a series of Take That concerts.
Diary: Bum steer on Pippa's rear
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
While the matter of Carol Vorderman's controversial victory in the annual "Rear of the Year" awards seemed settled, this particular bunfight now looks set to run and run, like the lovely Pippa competing in a mini-marathon.
Diary: Nice speech David, but do learn when to stop
Monday, 13 June 2011
We all make painful sacrifices for our work, but few half as excruciating as reading The Speech David Miliband Never Gave in its entirety, as I have done to spare you the misery. This is of course the address David would have given in September had he not lost the leadership by a whisker; the tour de force of forensic pyrotechnics which someone – and it seems futile to guess who – leaked at the very moment the Volvo Plot was causing his brother such grief. Don't believe a word, by the way, about David being a sour, embittered grudge-nurser who lives only to replace his ousted sibling. For buried amid all the Blairishly verb-less verities lay one gleaming gem of wisdom. "A family," David would have said, "is a covenant of love." Oh but it is. A scared, unbreakable bond. "A party," he'd have added, "is a covenant of trust." Again, uncommonly true. Where would Labour be today were its senior figures riven by mutual distrust? Yet for all its magnificence, the speech contains one caution for David's admirers. Where Ed's victory address lasted barely 10 minutes, David's, at almost 6,000 words, would have endured an hour at least. Being the Fidel Castro to Ed's pithier Raoul has many charms, but David does seem slightly ill-suited to the soundbite age.
Diary: Bookies get behind Pippa
Friday, 10 June 2011
After dipping a tentative toe yesterday into the "Arse-Gate" furore that erupted following game old girl Carol Vorderman's surprise triumph at the Rear of the Year awards this week, I had hoped that the matter would now be closed.
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