How would you like a High Street store where you could put all your items in your bag and then take them away without having to queue up to pay? This is not legalised shoplifting but an innovation by Amazon, which, it was revealed yesterday, will soon be coming to the UK. This new chain … Read more
Even Domestic Goddesses love fish finger sandwiches! Nigella Lawson reveals her top comfort food including plain bread and butter and the school dinner classic of steamed syrup sponge and custard Nigella Lawson has revealed her seven favourite comfort foods on Twitter Food writer, 60, said steamed syrup cake was her favourite nostalgic recipe Others on … Read more
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, says his priority is: ‘Jobs, jobs, jobs.’ For Boris Johnson, it is: ‘Build, build, build.’ Last week, the Prime Minister declared his commitment to end unwarranted delays in the decision-making process, so as to make sure the planning system delivers the infrastructure and employment we all want. Yet the Conservative Government … Read more
Beyonce shares open letter penned by her activist mom Tina Lawson calling for U.S. senators to pass the Heroes Act bill to ‘ensure that our vote is protected this election cycle’ By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 05:18 BST, 29 June 2020 | Updated: 05:37 BST, 29 June 2020 Beyonce took to Instagram on … Read more
First they came for the statues; then they came for the stained glass windows. Yes, the fashion (at least among undergraduates) for trashing commemorative edifices is developing new forms. And in one particular case, the targeted memorial is barely 30 years old. This is the Sir Ronald Fisher memorial, a stained glass window in the … Read more
For those of us sensitive to noise, the rules likely to govern public manners as the nation eases out of lockdown seem almost like paradise, and certainly an improvement on the pre-Covid-19 social code. The new measures are based on the scientists’ belief that talking loudly produces thousands of droplets, which can remain in the … Read more
Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory. The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection. Then … Read more
At last, our Government is displaying a backbone – and a sense of honour – in its dealings with the totalitarian Communist regime of Beijing. Interviewed by the BBC’s Andrew Marr yesterday, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab declared that unless the Chinese Communist Party revoked its decision last week to apply its own tyrannical and … Read more
Kelly Brook reveals she wants to be the next Nigella Lawson following her stint on the Great British Bake Off By Raven Saunt For Mailonline Published: 21:10 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 02:46 BST, 31 May 2020 Kelly Brook has revealed she wants to be the next Nigella Lawson following her stint on the … Read more
As Britons prepare for the end of lockdown, after months of isolation at home, I thought it might be helpful to offer a guide to various terms which have fallen into disuse and which some of you might have forgotten ever existed. Tie: Traditionally, an item of clothing by which the management class distinguished themselves … Read more