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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Billionaire oligarch's lover is thrown out of her home with her kids while a sports presenter hits back at 'horrific' criticism about her weight: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY
As the girlfriend of Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev, Alexandra Tolstoy lived a billionaire's lifestyle, enjoying a multi-million-pound home in Chelsea, a chateau on the French Riviera and a beachfront house in St Barts. Now single, however, the socialite, 51, has been left shocked and distressed after being suddenly evicted from her home in Battersea, south London, along with her three children.
Times
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Jonathan Lynn: ‘People are running the country who have never had a proper job'
T here is nothing so ex as an ex prime minister. It has been a long time since Jim Hacker rose to the top of the greasy pole. Now in his eighties he is a sad and diminished figure, leaky in mind and bladder, increasingly forgotten by an ungrateful nation. The fellows of the Oxford college that bears his name, thanks to an oligarch's endowment, want to remove him as their master, them having a different understanding to the Lords of what 'job for life' means, and in desperation he calls an old friend. Alas, Bernard Woolley can't come to the phone — Hacker forgot that he had attended his funeral — and so he turns to an old adversary. Can the man who became PM
