The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
In 1962, Johnny Edgecombe, an ex-lover of Christine Keeler, inadvertently triggered the biggest political sex scandal of the last century. And he and his family have felt defined by it since Melody Edgecombe was nine when the film Scandal was released in 1989. The politics, tangled relationships and scenes of lurid behaviour in high places may have been lost on her, but the portrayal...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... is the basis for John Hooper's claim in his article on Silvio Berlusconi that John Profumo paid Christine Keeler for her services? I know of no evidence for this. What the former war minister did cost him and his family dearly, but he did more than enough in the rest of his life to redeem himself. Terry Philpot Limpsfield Chart, Surrey Viv Groskop writes enthusiastically about enormous...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The problem with the idea of the Brasilia of the North is that Newcastle never found a northern Oscar Niemeyer. This was not for want of trying. Smith invited Le Corbusier to design what would have been his only British building, although it never worked out. He did manage to convince the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen (designer of that other 1960s icon, those curved chair which Christine Keeler...
Hitchens Watch (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... Which Hitch slept with his friend's sister because “it was better than nothing“ ? Q4. Christine Keeler, that well known prostitute, shared a bed with which Hitch? Q5. Which Hitch sent his child to a Quaker school? Q6. Which Hitch said that “the Labour Party was now the Conservative Party at prayer”. Q7 In a review of his latest book in the New Statesman, this...
