By our third meeting, the Prime Minister's skill at the public kiss had improved immeasurably. There was now definite contact between lips and cheek and no head clunking, although he still needs to work on his puckering technique. When I commented on his progress, in the library of 10 Downing...

The Times April 03, 2010
- Ginny Dougary

The comedian talks about everything from relationships to body image

His daughter Nina tells Ginny Dougary about the joys and traumas of life with one of music's greats
From The Times March 13, 2010
- Ginny Dougary

Had you been fortunate enough to be in the company of the most charismatic American conductor-composer- teacher-broadcaster of...

The Times March 06, 2010
- Ginny Dougary

Pauline Prescott talks to Ginny Dougary about public humiliation, private anguish - and why her husband now does the housework

Pauline Prescott and I have been instructed to keep the volume down by a prefectorial therapist down the corridor from our...

The Times February 13, 2010
- Ginny Dougary

As a sequel to the Phantom opens, he talks about his new 'almost cool' status, his father's roving eye -- and the joy of a dirty joke

Andrew Lloyd Webber has his kind face on and is looking straight into...

From The Times, January 30, 2010
- Ginny Dougary

Oxford's first female Professor of Poetry resigned amid a allegations of academic back-stabbing. So what on earth brought on her 'moment of lunacy' ?

How totally unboring it must be to be Ruth Padel, and that's...

From The Times, February 06, 2010
- Ginny Dougary

He was a world-renowned industrialist whose secret life as a gay man led to his downfall. For the first time, Lord Browne talks about the day he was outed, losing his job and falling in love again

Lord Browne of...

The last time I communicated with Benazir Bhutto was via e-mail in October after the first attempt on her life when she returned to Pakistan to fight the free elections which General Musharraf had promised.

She escaped unscathed on that occasion, although hundreds of her supporters did not. I...

Benazir Bhutto's life has been a rollercoaster of high political drama, acute personal loss, early triumph followed by downfall and charges of corruption. Ginny Dougary meets her in exile in Dubai, as she plans her return to power in Pakistan.

Photo: Mark...

For all her achievements as Cherie Booth QC, Cherie Blair has had a rocky ride at No 10. Ginny Dougary joined her on last month's tour of Pakistan and Afghanistan to gain a remarkable close-up view of the PM's spouse in action.

In a frank interview, the famed writer talks about motherhood, Catholicism, her parents and soulmate Harold Pinter

Lady Antonia Fraser adjusts her pearls, gazes out of the french windows opening out to the garden, and tells me to f*** awf. This, five minutes into our interview, comes straight after her...

Since leaving office 19 months ago, Tony Blair has rebuilt a life almost as frantic and globetrotting as the one he lived in Downing Street. Amid criticism of his role in the Middle East peace process, Ginny Dougary and photographer Nick Danziger join the former Prime Minister on the road...

The past year has been a momentous one for David Cameron. As Gordon Brown's Government stumbles from crisis to crisis, Cameron has reaped the political reward, as his target narrows on No 10. Yet alongside this public ambition has been private grief as he suffered the devastating death of his...

What must it be like to watch your child's life spiral into drug-addicted chaos, reported daily by a rapacious press? Mitch Winehouse on the torment of Amy's self-destruction, its impact on the Winehouse clan, and why he believes she's finally getting better.

So, let's get the great big elephant out...

Mikhail Gorbachev is still a man who strides the global stage -- and maintains a keen interest in domestic politics. He talks to Ginny Dougary about power, presidents, Putin and life after Raisa.

Photo: Graham Wood

Mikhail Gorbachev may be pushing 80, but...