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Staffers at Tina Brown's new Barry Diller-backed website should brace themselves: Nicholas Coleridge, the managing director of Condé Nast UK, remembers what it was like working under Brown at society mag Tatler:

"She was a ballbreaker... When I joined I was either No 13 or 14 on staff—three years later I was her deputy because everyone else was axed. It was like being a member of Idi Amin's cabinet. Each day another body was found floating."

We're sure Brown will be nothing but gratified by the analogy, not least because Diller will be jealous.