Kim Jong-un on horseback, the tailor to the stars, the marathon record-breakers and the must-listen podcast of the week.

Half a century on from the very first episode being broadcast to a bewildered Britain, we explore how Monty Python’s surreal anarchy made its way from student digs to superstardom.

Keeping you well-armed for dinner parties and chit chat since day one, this week's top talking points and brain-ticklings range from Coleen Rooney's Proust-worthy Twitter prose to The Connaught's nomination in The World’s 50 Best Bars

Seventy years after the world was introduced to Room 101, the Thought Police and Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, we revisit the author’s terrifying vision of London as the capital of Airstrip One

This week's top talking points, from BFI Film Festival to an uncanny representation of Her Majesty

Touch, pause, engage: here's where to watch the Rugby World Cup in style this weekend 

Your guide to this weekend's top talking points, including Ralph Lauren's new Rachel Green-inspired collection

Autumn buys, books and BDE – this is the fashion, food and frenemy we can't stop talking about this week

As the Downtown Abbey film hits cinemas, Imelda Staunton discusses her four-decade career, working alongside her husband and the importance of humour

Your edit of London's most talked-about topics, from parliamentary blunders to New York Fashion Week

The people, places and parties you need to know about this week (thank us later)

Your guide to this week's top talking points featuring Boris, Bond and beaches

Consider this your chatter fodder for the weekend dinner party, including plastic pollution, National Rum Day and the unveling of recently refurbished Raffles Singapore

The ten conversation starters you need to know about this week

Introducing our new regular column, in which we bring you the 10 conversation starters you need to know about this week

Idris Elba, one of film and TV’s most irrepressible talents, talks playlists, Prince Harry & 007 rumours