Londoner’s Diary: Invitation could prove awkward for David Hockney

Welcome to the last Londoner’s Diary of the week. First up photographer Paul Joyce wants his old friend David Hockney to come to his new exhibition even though it features a scathing essay about the artist … written by Joyce. Also today journalists at The Spectator decided to use a clever test to see whether people were reading Keir Starmer’s essay in full. Amy Winehouse’s stylist Naomi Parry recalls a memory of the singer shocking a friend in new Agent Provocateur underwear. In SW1A David Gauke says he’s in no rush to return to the Conservatives as he’s enjoying the freedom of being able to “lob a few rocks into the pool”. And we chat to Abena Oppong-Asare about her Lib-Dem themed attire at the Standard’s Stories party last night.

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