Tried and trusted principles to rebuild your investment portfolio post Covid

Joe Little is global chief strategist at HSBC Asset Management Joe Little is global chief strategist at HSBC Asset Management. The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Over $7trillion has been wiped off global stock markets since the beginning of the year, bond yields are at … Read more

Sarah Silverman supports protesters by hanging ‘White Silence = White Consent’ sign from her balcony

Sarah Silverman shows her solidarity with protesters by hanging a ‘White Silence = White Consent’ sign from her balcony in NYC By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 07:06 BST, 3 June 2020 | Updated: 07:06 BST, 3 June 2020 Sarah Silverman put down her pots and pans on Tuesday to show solidarity with demonstrators protesting … Read more

An olive-skinned twist! Charles Dickens bucked the ‘pallid Victorian’ trend by sporting a TAN

An olive-skinned twist! Charles Dickens bucked the ‘pallid Victorian’ trend by sporting a TAN, researchers reveal after colourising photos of the author Experts at The Charles Dickens Museum, Holborn, have colourised eight images The first photograph of the author to be transformed has been released today It shows a tanned complexion, an ‘ostentatious’ patterned waistcoat … Read more

‘It’s wishful thinking’: Downing Street blasts EU’s demands for access to UK fishing waters

‘It’s wishful thinking’: Downing Street blasts EU’s demands for access to UK fishing waters as latest round of trade talks begin EU claimed Britain should compromise on access to UK fishing waters  Downing Street said Brussels failed to acknowledge nation’s new independence  The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: ‘This is wishful thinking by the EU’ … Read more

Scottish Power customer reveals computer error led to bill increase 

‘I was charged £600 more a year due to a glitch’: Scottish Power customer reveals error claiming she was £17k in credit led to huge increase in bills Marion Bell was told her tariff would go up by £600 a year due to a glitch  Scottish Power had it recorded on their system that she … Read more

Kate Hudson flaunts super toned torso on bike ride with shirtless Danny Fujikawa in Malibu

Kate Hudson flaunts super toned torso in halter top on bike ride with shirtless Danny Fujikawa in Malibu By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 02:46 BST, 3 June 2020 | Updated: 06:49 BST, 3 June 2020 When the sun shines, people in Southern California head to the beach. And on Tuesday, Kate Hudson and boyfriend … Read more

SARAH VINE: I am cured of the urge to join the shopping zombies…

There is a scene in George A. Romero’s 1978 cult zombie classic Dawn Of The Dead, where survivors arrive at a post-apocalyptic shopping mall to discover it teeming with the infected, stumbling around closed shops, blindly riding the escalators in a grimly comedic ballet of gore. ‘But what are they all doing?’ asks the heroine.  … Read more

House prices suffer biggest drop since February 2009, says Nationwide

The average house price across the UK suffered its biggest drop for more than 11 years in May, a leading index revealed today – with one leading estate agent calling the numbers a ‘car crash’. In May, the average cost of a home fell by 1.7 per cent month-on-month, marking the sharpest decline since the … Read more

HENRY DEEDES: MPs ‘herded like cows’ as Parliament returns

More than half a mile the line snaked back through the Parliamentary Estate. From the Commons chamber it began, out through the cavernous environs of Westminster Hall before spilling out into New Palace Yard. For three months, the whole of this area had been totally deserted bar the odd armed policeman. Now, at 4pm on … Read more