Schadenfreude


Come in Spinner: Special delight that is PR fail schadenfreude

When things go wrong in the PR field, it is fascinating to map who most enjoys the resulting schadenfreude.

Luxury market loses its lustre

Faberge has returned with a new collection and they’re asking an ambitious $US7 million for a brooch. But how’s the luxury market doing more generally in the downturn? Poorly, says James Thomson.

Model down!

If a model fell on a runway and a photographer was there would anyone see her collapse? Oh yes. This is what schadenfreude looks like.

The apartment the Madoffs won’t see again

It’s bye-bye forever to the $35,000 Lavar Kerman Persian carpet and the $20,000 Chippendale-style tea table in their art-filled four-bedroom duplex on the upper East Side, says NY Daily News.

Brew a pot of tea and catch up with the MP expenses scandal

Britain’s MP expenses scandal has exposed a bipartisan culture of greed in the Parliament. Here’s how it all unravelled.

Guy Rundle: Black days for Gordon Brown

The one undoubted advantage of Gordon Brown going now quickly … is that none of us would have to watch him go slowly

Keith is punk’d!

What really happened.