Before Trump, before pangolins, wet markets and the “Chinese virus”, before Ukraine and the Uyghur genocide, there was a window of time in which posh British kids learned Mandarin at school, politicians drank beer with Xi and the City of London Corporation wooed the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Tramp, the London nightclub where Andrew allegedly whirled Virginia Roberts round the dancefloor, has abruptly shut - in perplexing circumstances.
Podcast mania continues at Westminster. Discarded grandees from all parties have noticed the success of The Rest is Politics, the hit podcast by Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell, which has now become a lucrative roadshow. The two gasbags sold out the Albert Hall in a matter of minutes, and their popularity has drawn new players