Kim Kardashian ‘flees Vienna Ball after man in black face mimics Kanye West’… as date who paid her $500k complains she’s ‘annoying’
DAILY MAIL By HEIDI PARKER and GEORGE STARK PUBLISHED: 22:01, 27 February 2014 | UPDATED: 20:20, 28 February 2014 It had been reported that she was an ‘annoying’ date who wouldn’t dance with billionaire mogul Richard Lugner despite … Continue reading
MEPs vote to criminalise buying sex
European parliament backs the ‘Nordic model’ of prostitution, which legalises the selling of sex but criminalises buying it Maya Oppenheim theguardian.com, Wednesday 26 February 2014 15.35 GMT The yes vote puts … Continue reading
“By summer 1895 Dowson was a wretched caricature of himself. He had always been a man of secret desperate passions”
“By summer 1895 Dowson was a wretched caricature of himself. He had always been a man of secret, desperate passions, but now the anguish of being himself, the appalling pressure … Continue reading
The Great War in Portraits review: ‘They were people, not statistics’
From stiff portraits of the ruling elite who sparked the conflict to disfigured soldiers, the National Portrait Gallery’s first world war exhibition interrogates history by making troubling contrasts Jonathan Jones … Continue reading
Berlin: Imagine a City by Rory MacLean – review
Rory MacLean’s history of Berlin encompasses five centuries of the city and its people in vivid, imaginative detail Clare Wigfall The Observer, Sunday 23 February 2014 A young West Berlin couple … Continue reading
London sex workers win legal challenge against police decision to shut down their flats
PAUL PEACHEY CRIME CORRESPONDENT The Independent, Friday 21 February 2014 Two sex workers have claimed victory against Scotland Yard after they overturned a decision to shut down their flats after … Continue reading
The Ghent Altarpiece: the truth about the most stolen artwork of all time
Napoleon robbed it, Calvinists nearly burned it, the Nazis were desperate to own it, and part of it has been missing for 80 years. Noah Charney on the world’s most … Continue reading
The No Pants Subway Ride – in pictures
The No Pants Subway Ride is an annual event staged across major cities around the world each January. It does what it says on the tin: you ride the Subway … Continue reading
Loneliness is killing us – we must start treating this disease
A report says loneliness is more deadly than obesity – [I suffer from both; what chance have I got?] the challenge now is to help lonely people connect Philippa Perry … Continue reading
‘Shameless’ Belgian PM appears topless on television
Belgium’s PM joins Vladimir Putin to show off his torso in topless photos Mr Di Rupo’s topless appearance was described as ‘respectful’ by his office Photo: RTL.be By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels Telegraph 5:47PM … Continue reading
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