William Hague: How on earth did he get in this mess?

Damian Thompson, an Oxford contemporary, paints a revealing portrait of the Foreign Secretary's career.

More Mr Nice Guy: Why everyone loves Russell Tovey

Russell Tovey has gone topless, and 6,365 people have gone potty. That's how many followers the actor has amassed on Twitter in the 24 hours since creating an account on the social-network site. Being "ordained", as he puts it, by Stephen Fry, the high priest of 140-character ego-bulletins, helped ("Welcome, Russell Tovey, to Twitter," tweeted Fry). "Suddenly," he exclaims in his none-more-Essex ...

Anberlin Frontman Juggles Grad School with Music

  "I doubt this band will be around in 10 years, and there needs to be something that I can fall back on," says Anberlin frontman Stephen Christian of pursuing an MBA in psychology.   

Hague took friend on a fact-finding, taxpayer-funded trip to Afghanistan, even though he had no official job

The Foreign Secretary paid for Chris Myers to fly first-class from Bahrain back to London. Mr Myers also accompanied Mr Hague on visits to Northern Ireland.

'Euan and I were very young ... after four pints we were drunk. and then I lost him': Family friend on the night Blair ...

Family friend named by Blair as his son Euan’s fateful drinking partner talks about that ‘lost’ night in Leicester Square.