RECESSION Brown backtracks after City warnings 
‘Hannan the hero’
Silver Thursday and the fall of the Bunker Hunt, the world's richest man
Twenty-nine years ago today, one of the world's greediest speculators got his comeuppance
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Philip Gould defends daughter’s hopes
Today, 12:15pmLord Gould of Brookwood - aka Philip Gould, one of Tony Blair's closest advisors when he was Prime Minister - has leapt to the defence of his daughter, Georgina, who… READ MORE 
Burnt Shadows
Today, 12:10pmby Kamila Shamsie, Bloomsbury, 384pp, £14.99, Week Bookshop £13.49 (incl. p&p). Kamila Shamsie's fifth novel is an "epic" of "huge ambition", said Maya Jaggi in the Guardian. Unfolding… READ MORE
Top journalists refuse to join globe-trotting Gordon ‘Speedo’ Brown
Today, 12:04pmDowning Street has been miffed to discover that most of Fleet Street's finest have chosen not to cover the Prime Minister's 'Save the World' vanity tour. Instead the hacks paying… READ MORE
Lewis Hamilton hints at quitting McLaren
Today, 10:33amIs Lewis Hamilton, the world champion F1 driver, planning on abandoning McLaren, the team for whom he has driven since he was a 13-year-old? Hamilton (pictured), who begins his campaign… READ MORE
Brian Cowen enraged by nude portraits
Today, 9:38amThe public display in Dublin of a pair of unflattering portraits of the Irish Prime Minister (or Taoiseach) Brian Cowen – one of them depicting him in the nude –… READ MORE
Ed Balls wants to be Chancellor
Today, 9:30amMost politicians conceal their ambitions. Not so Ed Balls (pictured). Currently Labour’s Minister for Children, Schools and Families, he reveals in this week’s edition of the New Statesman that he… READ MORE
Michael Jackson plans O2 elephant ride
Today, 8:14amAs if the circus surrounding Michael Jackson’s series of London comeback concerts planned for the O2 Arena wasn’t strange enough, the singer is reported to have demanded an elephant on… READ MORE
Simon Cowell snubs President Obama
Today, 7:50amJust how grand, busy and important is the pop impresario Simon Cowell? By his own account very, to the point that he turned down an invitation to have a one-on-one… READ MORE
Daniel Hannan mugs Brown in Strasbourg
Today, 7:48amThe Conservatives have a new hero today - Daniel Hannan, the maverick MEP and regular contributor to The First Post on the shenanigans of Brussels, who stood up before Gordon… READ MORE
Picture past: March 26, 1945, Iwo Jima
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Gordon Brown backtracks on further fiscal stimulus
Today, 12:00amGordon Brown, in danger of going out on a limb with a plan to blow more money on getting Britain out of recession, has suddenly backed away from… READ MORE
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