Tuesday, March 28, 2023
HomeMOVERS & SHAKERS

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Wally of the Week: Susanne Hinte

Lottery ticket washer Susanne Hinte is nothing but fame and money hungry   After trying to claim a £33 million lottery prize with a ticket that had been through the wash and lacked a date or...

Reader Offer: Life is Wonderful

An evening with those who helped Nelson Mandela secure freedom for South Africa   On Monday 25th January at The Grosvenor House in London, Rory Bremner will compere an evening to celebrate and showcase the lives...

Robert Brown: What’s on your mantelpiece?

A 20-question interview with Atlanta based interior designer Robert Brown   The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force? The quest to indulge my beautiful children.   “Don't get even, get medieval” is, in our humble...

Godly Goodman

Imprisoned polo playing mogul turned Bentley wielding hit-and-run killer John Goodman finds religion   John Goodman simply cannot keep himself out of the press. Plainly bored sat in his cell, this ‘thought himself above the law’...

Wally of the Week: Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina has shown herself to be nothing but a female version of Donald Trump   Carly Fiorina could have been America’s saviour. She could have positioned herself as the person to stop both Donald Trump...

Noelle Blackman

The Steeple Times asks Respond charity CEO Dr Noelle Blackman: What’s on your mantelpiece?   The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force? Treating others as I would hope to be treated myself.   “Don't get...

Small penises and big egos

Reports of what went on at a brash Gstaad party weekend hosted by ASmallworld provides evidence of a gathering of nothing but small penises and big egos   Last weekend, the somewhat shrunken social network ASmallWorld...

An alphabet of fabulous names

Matthew Steeples makes a selection of people with the most wacky and unusual names on the planet including petrol seller Dick Assman and debt administrator Filet Minyon   Some people are given names that are bland;...

Amber Nuttall: What’s on your mantelpiece?

The Steeple Times asks business development consultant and marine conservation campaigner Amber Nuttall: What’s on your mantelpiece?   The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force? Smile. Its cost nothing and is so good...

Girls and boys

George Appleton shares his pet hate: Girls who have boys’ names   We’ve all been there, at a party say, when a girl introduces herself along the lines of: ‘Hi, I’m Charlie’. ‘Oh dear’, you silently...

Overheard: 1st December

Clangers overheard by readers of ‘The Steeple Times’ in the last week   What is Harrods? On a 14 bus in Knightsbridge, an American couple chatted as they passed the emporium that is Harrods. “That’s quaint”,...

The dribble of Doble

In the week that Denis Doble was thrown out of a party, the ‘Evening Standard’ scandalously offers tips on how to get in   On Wednesday I evicted Denis Doble from an event I co-hosted. As...

Wally of the Week: Mark Clarke

Former Conservative activist Mark Clarke is nothing but a nasty piece of work and it is right that he has been expelled   “Tory election guru” Mark Clarke isn’t just a wally. He’s also a bully...

The world according to Nancy

Nancy Dell’Olio to perform at The Hippodrome Casino on 19th November   Former ‘First Lady of Football’ Nancy Dell’Olio has turned her hand to many things and yet more proof of this firecracker’s versatility will be...

Overheard — 3rd November

Clangers overheard by readers in the last week   Zulu work A woman in a café in Clapham was overheard lecturing her daughter on her mobile phone about a forthcoming job interview by reader Janet Andrews. She...

A tawdry trio

As Amanda Clutterbuck and Ian Paton lose their attempt to reclaim £14 million worth of Kensington and Chelsea properties that they signed over to the 'Vamp in the Veil' Sara Al Amoudi, we suggest...

Picture of the Week: The Dazzling Duchess

The real star of the official state banquet for the Chinese president Xi Jinping was the Duchess of Cambridge   Described as the “Dazzling Duchess” and the “Pride of the Palace” in today’s Mail Online,...

Wallies of the Week: Borne Media

Sex offender and former PR Max Clifford's daughter's website for her new company, Borne Media, illustrates that his tawdry spirit lives on and that she plainly does not accept that his grubby style of...

Picture of the Week: The modern eccentric

Lapo Elkann – A man belonging to a different era launches his latest project   This week, Lapo Elkann launched Garage Italia Customs in an old fuel station in Milan. The company has the capability to...

#JustSaying Caroline Stanbury

Will socialite Caroline Stanbury’s attempt to become Britain’s answer to the Kardashians hit the buffers in the same way that her Gift Library Business did?   Caroline Stanbury loves the limelight. A self-proclaimed “star” of the...

Tatler apologises to Swindon

High society magazine Tatler apologises to the people of Swindon   When November’s edition of Tatler branded Swindon “a no-go zone for Tatler types” and suggested: “We wouldn’t want our readers to get sucked into its...

Colourful Ruins

Private view of Nicholas Gibbs’ ‘Colourful Ruins’   On Monday 28th September, artist and curator Andrea Leila Brown hosted a preview of the works of the painter Nicholas Gibbs at her gallery at 508 Kings...

The turbo ligger

Matthew Steeples highlights the pinnacle of the gatecrashing community and cites Denis Doble and Sandra Shevey as prime examples of ‘turbo liggers’   There are ‘liggers’ and then there are ‘turbo liggers’. Fine examples of this...

Peter Davis: What’s on your mantelpiece?

‘The Steeple Times’ asks New York based journalist Peter Davis: What’s on your mantelpiece?   The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force? Be nice to everyone.   “Don't get even, get medieval” is, in our...

Wally of the Week: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Moaning minnie Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s guest column for the ‘Sunday Mirror’ confirms that she truly is nothing but a harpy for hire   In a “guest column” for the Sunday Mirror yesterday, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown attacked David Cameron,...

Counciling a premium

Former council flat in Chelsea on the market for a staggering premium price of £1,290 per square foot   A relative bargain compared to a £2,058 per square foot 741 square foot apartment in nearby mansion...

Cut and run

Chelsea woman who cut up the clothes of her ex-boyfriend sought by police after failing to appear at court   Many will have heard the urban legend about a spurned wife who found out about her husband’s...

The monotony of Michelle

Michelle Young’s ‘Evening Standard’ interview proves that she is nothing but egocentric and fame obsessed   There are women who like to shop and then there’s Michelle Young; there are women who like go to fancy parties...

Danielle Rollins: What’s on your mantelpiece?

The Steeple Times asks Atlanta based lifestyle expert Danielle Rollins: What’s on your mantelpiece?   The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force? My guiding force is to share a chic and sometimes tongue...

The Ark of Brompton Cross

Playboys swarming the streets of SW3 have turned Brompton Cross into the Arabian answer to Oxford Circus   Animals allegedly went into The Ark 2x2 and last night, in London’s Brompton Cross visiting Arabs paraded in...

Sam Barton: What’s on your mantelpiece?

The Steeple Times asks “Britain’s vainest man” Sam Barton: What’s on your mantelpiece?   The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force? Money as – after all – that’s what makes the world go...

Wally of the Week: George Claudiu Albu

Irresponsible, uninsured Romanian Bentley driver George Claudiu Albu stands accused of fleeing the scene of an accident that tragically resulted in the death of a 23-year old father of one   A 31-year old Romanian bodybuilder...