MEMOIR The Wild Track by Margaret Reynolds with Lucy Reynolds (Doubleday £16.00, 320pp) Mothers frazzled, exasperated and (let’s be honest) often bored at the demands of looking after small children might have surveyed Professor Margaret Reynolds’s life with envy. She was — and still is — a leading academic, a writer and editor, a broadcaster, … Read more
I had my own experience of being silenced last month, by Facebook, writes BRIAN MONTEITH When you hear of ‘cancel culture’, there are plenty of dramatic examples that might come to mind – statues hauled down by angry mobs, prominent academics hounded and silenced. Even the President of the United States had his Twitter account … Read more
Paris Hilton has been head-over-heels for Carter Reum since their whirlwind romance began in late 2019. And the pop culture icon recently said a resounding ‘yes’ after her beau popped the question. She gushed as she recounted Carter’s beach proposal and talked about having kids with her husband-to-be in their first joint interview on her … Read more
Paris Hilton has been head-over-heels for Carter Reum since their whirlwind romance began in late 2019. And the pop culture icon recently said a resounding ‘yes’ after her beau popped the question. She gushed as she recounted Carter’s beach proposal and talked about having kids with her husband-to-be in their first joint interview on her … Read more
Republicans made it MORE difficult for candidates to get a recount in Wisconsin and Michigan after Donald Trump’s razor-thin 2016 win By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.s. Political Reporter and Emily Goodin, Senior U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 17:28 GMT, 4 November 2020 | Updated: 18:21 GMT, 4 November 2020 President Donald Trump’s own party … Read more
Donald Trump refused to let Kwame Jackson win the first season of The Apprentice because he was a ‘black f***’. The President once told his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen: ‘There was no way I was going to let this black f** win’, using a homophobic slur. Cohen recounts the episode in his new memoir … Read more
November 1917, and the day dawned dank and foggy over the water-logged trenches near Cambrai in eastern France. Not surprisingly, Gefreiter (Lance-Corporal) Wilhelm Bar of Germany’s 27th Reserve Infantry Regiment was feeling more demoralised than usual. Then suddenly, out of the mist, burst a hurricane of shellfire, swiftly followed by the grinding sound of hundreds … Read more
Leigh-Anne Pinnock has spoken about the first time she experienced racism – at just nine-years-old. The Little Mix star, 28, was bullied at school and told she was ‘from the jungle’. Appearing on Channel 4’s The Talk, on which black celebrities recount their experiences with racist abuse, Leigh-Anne sat between her parents and told her story. Her … Read more
THE Repair Shop’s Jay Blades has recalled the bombshell moment he discovered he had 25 brothers and sisters due to his womanising dad. The presenter grew up with his single mother Barbara and his half-brother Justin on a council estate in East London. 3 The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades has recalled the bombshell moment he … Read more
A 4ft 1in woman who dreams of a designing a successful fashion range for other women of smaller stature recalls the heartache of being called ‘it’ in a moving new Channel 5 documentary. Mary Russell, 50, from London, explains in this evening’s ‘Little Britons’ that she felt complete shock when a girl referred to her … Read more