Heated exchanges over Cool Britannia

THIS week’s New Statesman front cover has Tony Blair in bed with Patsy Kensit, in a doctored version of a classic 1997 Cool Britannia Vanity Fair cover. Yesterday, the actress told us her original partner, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, was better in bed than the former PM, and now representatives of Lorenzo Agius, the photographer who took the picture, have been in touch to say they’re not happy with the reproduction. “We are absolutely furious!”, his manager Terrie Tanaka tells us. “They do not have permission to use Lorenzo Agius’ image.” Liam, get in touch with your thoughts.