And at Goldeneye, he faced the shutdown of decades of swinging bachelordom. “I was in a terrible state,” he explained to his confidant Maud Russell, “& appalled at the thought of getting ...

(Both Piets are Dutch designers and NLXL contributors.) There was also the ultimate display of bachelordom: fake plants, dominated by a surrealist Gufram cactus. The eye-catching space was written ...

BBC Director General Greg Dyke called for both sides in the Iraq dossier row to "agree to disagree and move on" from the bitter wrangle. Speaking at the annual Radio Festival in Birmingham, the ...

A transatlantic air fares war broke out yesterday when British Airways slashed prices on 1.5million seats. The move was a direct response to an offer of bargain flights from rival Virgin Atlantic.