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Dame Maureen Lipman’s partner of 13 years has died after a short Covid-related illness. The actress said of businessman Guido Castro: ‘He got Covid – it wasn’t Covid that killed him but it weakened him terribly.’ Dame Maureen, 74, said Mr Castro, 84, who was in a respite home and had a form of Parkinson’s … Read more
These are the tales from Hell’s Kitchen… the real kitchens, in presidential palaces and retreats, where food was prepared for men so evil they seemed to be the Devil in human form. Polish writer Witold Szablowski spent four years tracking down the chefs who cooked for some of the world’s most sadistic and feared dictators. … Read more
They were some of the most brutal dictators in the world – and they killed for a good meal. The personal chefs of ruthless despots have revealed what it was like to work for them in a new book. Men – and one woman – who cooked for Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Pol … Read more
Bernie Sanders has praised Fidel Castro’s ‘massive literacy program’, standing by comments he made praising the dictator’s rule of Cuba in the 1980s. The Democratic frontrunner, 78, defended the Communist regime as ‘not all bad’ during a wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview which aired Sunday. In it he told Anderson Cooper: ‘We’re very opposed to the authoritarian … Read more