Thatcher’s Asprey and Carrie Bradshaw’s Fendi to star in V&A bag show

UK’s widest bag exhibition features Churchill’s dispatch box and Iron Lady’s ‘sceptre’

Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg

Built from scratch by the tsars, imperial St Petersburg was at the epicentre of the Russian Revolution. Harriet Green scours its streets for Lenin’s legacy

Surreal estate: inside Margaret Thatcher’s Chester Square retreat

It’s received Ronald Reagan and other heads of state, and given its bombproof door perhaps other less savoury offerings, too

Higher level of social media engagement to win greater advertising revenues for Oscar

The Internet-tracking firm Bluefin Labs counted 3.4 million Oscar-related comments on Facebook and Twitter, up from 966,00 for the 2011 Academy Awards telecast. Those numbers are likely to be significant for Oscar producers, who could point to viewers’ higher level of social media engagement to win greater advertising revenues for next year’s show, says Reuters. … Read more