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EYE ON ENGLAND: The strange life of the literary one-hit wonder, and a retelling of Jules Vernes Around the World in Eighty Days

I’m laughing along to Queen of the New Year at the fag-end of 2021 and thinking: “This could have been George Harrison if he’d quit the Beatles and joined the Rolling Stones - the world’s first rock supergroup.”

The man in the picture has never been identified, but the glamorous woman before him - engaged in what has always delicately been described as a sex act - saw her reputation left in tatters.

Escape in style with these exquisite new luxury hotel openings across the globe

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” Oscar Wilde reminded us of this universal truth with these witty words, which are timeless and wholesome at the same time.

It was a scandal that rocked the nation: an aristocratic beauty was photographed performing fellatio on a lover, while shots of another man gratifying himself were unearthed in her boudoir.

If the former health secretary plays it right, he could still become prime minister, says PR specialist Mark Borkowski

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New BBC drama A Very British Scandal will catapult viewers into a vicious society divorce battle that saw one woman’s reputation raked over in the 1960s tabloids. Biographer and historian Sarah Gristwood considers the real figures at the centre of the drama – including the so-called ‘headless man’ – and how the case reflects the changing attitudes of a nation…

Long gone are the days when a politician would resign as a result of a media leak, writes Campbell Gunn. Now, it seems, nothing could embarrass our PM.