Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.
Vanity Fair’s chronicler of the dark underbelly of US celeb culture faces his final curtain call
Alfonso Fanjul Jr’s family fled Castro’s Cuba. Thanks to state help they now enjoy a monopoly on sugar in the US
Todd Palin is hailed as a ‘true Alaskan’. It’s not necessarily being meant as a compliment
Series concluded: Charles Laurence finally moves into his renovated beach house in Turks and Caicos
Part 5: Keep it simple, Charles Laurence thinks, as his no-mod-cons beach house in the Turks and Caicos gets started
Part 4: Local politics raise their ugly head as Charles Laurence seeks to renovate his beachfront house in the Turks and Caicos
Part 3: An unhappy discovery interrupts Charles Laurence’s dream of buying a beachfront house in the Turks and Caicos
Part 2: Arcane laws look like spoiling Charles Laurence’s dream of buying a beachfront house in the Turks and Caicos
Starting today, Charles Laurence tells how he bought a ramshackle dream house on Salt Cay in the Turks and Caicos
A new novel imagining the First Lady’s sex life has Republicans blushing, says Charles Laurence
His wife has named Madonna in her divorce suit. Who is this man A-Rod?
Fifteen years after dismembering her husband, Lorena Bobbitt has reinvented herself
The list of his conquests suggests Bill Clinton isn’t quite the lothario we thought him to be
Like Caligula, the most decadent of America’s super-rich elite has had his comeuppance
Political ambition fuelled the Clintons’ marriage - so what happens now, asks Charles Laurence
The dirt-digger who brought down Eliot Spitzer has Barack Obama in his sights
How the collapse of a second New York crane is shaking Mayor Bloomberg’s reputation
But the memoir of the former White House press secretary only confirms what we already knew, says Charles Laurence
Ambulance-chasing lawyer Dickie Scruggs’ antics have come to an end - but was he set up?
The ailing Edward Kennedy is a national treasure despite a complete lack of decency
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