Trains, Planes, Ships & Cars: The Golden Age 1900-1941 James Hamilton-Paterson Head of Zeus £30 Rating: Ah, the Golden Age of Travel! This is not a book to be read while you are standing cooped-up on a crowded staircase for ten minutes as part of Ryanair’s ‘Priority Boarding’. In James Hamilton-Paterson’s judgment, the Golden Age … Read more
Inside The Actor’s Studio’s creator and longtime host James Lipton has died, aged 93. Lipton, who died peacefully early Monday at his New York home, was suffering from bladder cancer, his wife Kedakai Turner told The Hollywood Reporter. In his 22 seasons hosting his iconic Bravo show, Lipton interviewed the greats of Hollywood, with nearly 300 … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK A WORLD OF MY OWN by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (Adlard Coles £10.99, 256 pp) We live in a world of maximum connectivity, where you can sit in Abu Dhabi and do keyhole surgery on someone in Aberdeen; where a Twitter frenzy in Kenilworth can be picked up in seconds in Kyoto; … Read more
Bull markets don’t die of old age, but do they die of coronavirus? This is Money podcast By This Is Money Published: 17:05 GMT, 28 February 2020 | Updated: 17:05 GMT, 28 February 2020 Bull markets don’t die of old age, we’ve been told countless times in recent years, but do they die of coronavirus? … Read more
Millions of savers could have to wait another TWO YEARS to dip into their pensions under amid controversial Treasury plans to raise age for cashing in to 57 Chancellor Rishi Sunak under pressure to raise the minimum pension age to 57 Mr Sunak is due to deliver his first Budget in just weeks on March … Read more
Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova announces her retirement from tennis in an emotional essay in Vanity Fair – three years after coming from a drugs ban Maria Sharapova has confirmed that she will retire from tennis at the age of 32 The five-time Grand Slam winner penned an emotional essay in Vanity Fair In … Read more
One in four 15-year-olds have a reading age of 12 or below and struggle to understand questions in their GCSE exams Test provider GL Assessment analysed the reading abilities of 370,000 pupils 25% have reading age of 12 or below and 20% have skills of 11-year-old and under Worryingly, 10% have a reading age equivalent … Read more
Pain of Greta Thunberg as she reveals her grandfather has died at the age of 94 17-year-old posted to social media that her grandfather had died yesterday Olof Thunberg had been due to turn 95-years-old and Greta paid tribute to him The activist described him as ‘one of the kindest people’ she had ever known … Read more