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Byline: Tim Walker With a stipend of £85,000, free board and lodging at the magnificent Deanery at Christ Church, Oxford, and a generous expenses account, the Very Rev Dr Christopher [...]

Byline: Tim Walker After years of what she herself admitted was procrastination, Jennifer Saunders has finally confirmed that she is to script a film version of Absolutely Fabulous. Interestingly, Ruby [...]

Byline: Tim Walker To all those of you who entered Mandrake's Christmas quiz - and once again, you have done so by the sackful - a big thank you. First [...]

Byline: Tim Walker GOING SOLO After I broke the news in 2011 that they had begun courting, it is dispiriting to have to report that Emma Watson and Will Adamovicz, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker One is a three-Michelinstarred restaurant known for its unusual dishes such as snail porridge and bacon ice cream. The other is a suburban café where chicken wraps [...]

Byline: Tim Walkers ABSENT FRIEND Dominic Rodgers' delight that Annabelle Brice, above, accepted his marriage proposal is tinged with only one regret: that his father, the much missed-actor Anton Rodgers, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Conspicuous by its absence from the festive schedules, Miranda Hart's sitcom is to return to television screens in her sitcom next Christmas. Sarah Hadland, who plays Stevie [...]

Byline: Tim Walker One is a three-Michelin-starred restaurant known for its unusual dishes such as snail porridge and bacon ice cream. The other is a suburban café where chicken wraps [...]

Byline: Tim Walker and Edited by Richard Eden Most young actors would give their eye teeth for an award, but the Hollywood star Tom Hardy doubts that they have any [...]

Byline: Tim Walker ABSENT FRIEND Dominic Rodgers' delight that Annabelle Brice, above, accepted his marriage proposal is tinged with only one regret: that his father, the much missed-actor Anton Rodgers, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Mandrake is sorry to report that Brian Dowling, one of Clubland's most convivial figures, died on New Year's Eve. The former journalist and Rank Films publicist was [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Jo Swinson may be one of the Coalition's weakest performers, but the Liberal Democrat is doing sterling work in mangling the English language. The employment minister sent [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Alistair Darling has been widely tipped to take over from the failing Ed Balls as shadow chancellor after the Scottish independence referendum in September. However, the former [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Almost half a century ago, Sir Michael Holroyd, the biographer of George Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey, abandoned plans to publish an account of his early life [...]

Byline: Tim Walker MY OLD MAN After her father, James Thomson, died when she was 18, Lily James, left, was nervous about who would play her parent in the forthcoming [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Alistair Darling has been widely tipped to take over from the failing Ed Balls as shadow chancellor after the Scottish independence referendum in September. However, the former [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Ronnie and Nancy are already booked in to see Mandrake play God in Spamalot next week to raise money for the Telegraph Christmas Appeal. I should add [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Almost half a century ago, Sir Michael Holroyd, the biographer of George Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey, abandoned plans to publish an account of his early life [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Did they really say that? They surely did. The bon mots that the famous -and the infamous -shared with Britain's best-informed diary over the past year. 'The [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Did they really say that? They surely did. The bon mots that the famous - and the infamous - shared with Britain's best-informed diary over the past [...]

Byline: Tim Walker If the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art still employs anyone who remembers my profoundly unimpressive acting audition during the Eighties, these must be unsettling times. That hopeless [...]

Byline: Tim Walkers WORD PLAY As Myleene Klass enjoys a holiday in Mexico with her daughters, Ava, six, and Hero, two, she will be trying to brush up on the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Grayson Perry, the crossdressing potter, has revealed why he declines requests to speak at schools: 'Trust me, there is no one more conservative than a teenager. Regardless [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Jane Hill delivers news bulletins from around the world, but it is what is taking place near her north London home that upsets her. 'Just yelled at [...]

Byline: Tim Walker David Cameron has been criticised for rewarding friends and 'cronies' in the New Year's honours list, but he has been outdone by Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland [...]

Byline: Tim Walker WORD PLAY As Myleene Klass enjoys a holiday in Mexico with her daughters, Ava, six, and Hero, two, she will be trying to brush up on the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Grayson Perry, the cross-dressing potter, has revealed why he declines requests to speak at schools: 'Trust me, there is no one more conservative than a teenager. Regardless [...]

Byline: Tim Walker and Edited by Richard Eden Was the MBE for Ruth Jones, star and co-creator of Gavin & Stacey, David Cameron's way of encouraging her to write a [...]

Byline: Tim Walker and Katy Balls Happy news for Rupert Legge, his daughter Claudia is to marry. The 24-year-old photographer is engaged to Frederick Clark, an artist who recently had [...]

Byline: Tim Walker As partygoers across Britain celebrate New Year's Eve tonight, Julie Walters will be having a quiet night in. 'I never do all that partying on New Year's [...]

Byline: Tim Walker After the disappointing reviews that she received for her performance in Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic earlier this year, Vanessa Redgrave had been counting [...]

Byline: Tim Walker TOP DOG Nigella Lawson was said to be devastated after her ex-husband Charles Saatchi won 'custody' of a stuffed mutt they owned dubbed Narles - a mixture [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Lord Prescott got more than he bargained for when he attended a party this month at Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling's Eighties-inspired club Maggie's in Chelsea. Mandrake [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Lord Steel of Aikenwood was cheered by some Christmas goodwill this month when he got lost on the way to a political bash. The former leader of [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The Princess Royal will combine business with pleasure at the Winter Olympics in February. Princess Anne, who is President of the British Olympic Association, will stay in [...]

Byline: Tim Walker ROLE PLAY Saoirse Ronan has starred in a string of films that were adapted from novels including The Lovely Bones, Atonement and The City of Ember. However, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker and Katy Balls Although it was reported that Dan Stevens is failing to make his mark in America after leaving Downton Abbey to pursue a Hollywood career, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE LONG RUN A crash diet after Christmas or even a temporary alcohol ban are not enough for Ellie Goulding, above, as she contemplates how best to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Eight hours is about how long it takes to get from Heathrow to Barbados. On Monday, it got me from Waterloo to Bournemouth on a South West [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Her ingenuity in the kitchen would not appear to be the way that the Duchess of Cornwall won the heart of the Prince of Wales. Tom Parker [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE LONG RUN A crash diet after Christmas or even a temporary alcohol ban are not enough for Ellie Goulding, above, as she contemplates how best to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker How did Gary Goldsmith, the Duchess of Cambridge's uncle, spend Christmas? At a blind champagne tasting with pals. 'The Dom, Pol Roger, Bolly RD etc lost to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Vita injusta est. The recipients of the New Year's honours already know what gongs they are getting - but are they worthy of them? The list that [...]

Byline: Tim Walker When it comes to breaking the big stories, nobody does it better than Mandrake. Our Christmas quiz is your chance to demonstrate how closely you have been [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother's memory is being kept alive by her grandson the Prince of Wales in the form of a magnificent cake that has been [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Alex James gave up a life in the fast lane as the bassist of the band Blur to settle down in the Cotswolds to run a farm. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SNOW JOKE Joanna Page, above, may once have starred in a Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special, but this year's festive television specials are failing to inspire her. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Just as the late gossip columnist Nigel Dempster gave up going to parties towards the end of his career because he found modern celebrities so boring, so, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Recalling how acrimoniously her marriage to Peter O'Toole had ended, several friends of Siân Phillips told me that I was being unduly optimistic when I reported last [...]