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...tale of a Labour grandee and a toffy Tory involving the betrayal of secrets and the lure of obscene wealth is adding considerably to the nation's gaiety as each day brings fresh revelations about a series of encounters that took place on and around the Greek island of Corfu this summer...
...friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch routinely described as Russia's wealthiest man, took place aboard Deripaska's super-yacht and in other opulent Adriatic locations over a long weekend in August. Throw in cameo appearances by Rupert Murdoch and his daughter Elisabeth, and the Corfu capers are proving the perfect distraction from Britain's credit crunch woes. A month ago Labour and the Conservatives pledged cross-party cooperation to shield Brits from the economic crisis, but nobody ever imagined it would take this form...
...Osborne, born to affluence that might have been expected to inoculate him against the glint of gold, hardly seems immune himself. Five weeks before his speech to the Conservative conference, he had enjoyed the hospitality of Rothschild, an old university chum, in Corfu and attended, with Mandelson and a heady mix of the powerful and the outrageously loaded, Elisabeth Murdoch's 40th birthday dinner on the island. That's exactly the sort of high life former Prime Minister Tony Blair notoriously enjoyed during his tenure in Downing Street. Blair's vacations with well-heeled new best friends, from Italian media...
...high-profile foreign investors, Tivat is about to be reborn. Next month, construction begins on a new marina for megayachts that its backers say will help turn this lowly industrial town into a glistening new Monaco. Its current appearance notwithstanding, Tivat is fortuitously situated on the so-called Venice-Corfu leg, the fastest-growing cruise destination in the Mediterranean and a pleasure ground for some of the world's wealthiest people. Montenegro's roads are crumbling, its power supply sporadic and its sewage system inadequate, but its coastline is one of the most spectacular on the Mediterranean...
...Like, everyone’s so jealous. These leftover betties haven’t managed to leave feminism in the 1970s. I’m not asking them to wear an apron. I’m granting them the opportunity to wear a linen apron in my house in Corfu, just for show. While wearing heels. “Oooo, bend over to pick up that cashmere scarf, baby.” And the only girls who want to get in my pants, er, wallet, er pants, are the ones who already have linen aprons. Who is to know what...