‘Let us not forget the toils ahead’: How Churchill’s VE Day message and photos of jubliant Londoners hold haunting relevance today… as locked-down Britons prepare to mark 75 years since end of WWII Images of Britons celebrating victory over Nazi Germany have reemerged ahead of VE Day’s 75th anniversary Evocative pictures show the streets of … Read more
The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC1) Rating: First Dates Hotel (C4) Rating: You can tell a lot about a celeb from what he packs in his suitcase. Henry ‘Blowers’ Blofeld, cricket commentator and bon viveur, took an armful of colourful shirts and a bottle of champagne to India, on The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC1). Paul ‘Chuckle … Read more
The latest ‘superfood’ to throw into your smoothie or porridge is chokeberries, scientists say. The fruit, native to North America, is high in health-boosting antioxidants which can help in the fight against disease. It’s too tart to be eaten in it’s raw state, but Polish scientists found the fruit’s nutrients aren’t damaged when cooked into … Read more
Desperate Britons are putting their lives at risk by taking anti-malaria tablets in a ‘misguided’ attempt to fight Covid-19, experts warned last night. They dismissed claims by French researchers that the decades-old drugs could ‘cure’ patients and called a controversial study published last month that appeared to show benefits ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘dangerous’. The pills, chloroquine … Read more
BEST OF BIOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin The greatest of English novelists deserves a great biography and Claire Tomalin delivers handsomely. And what a life it was. Dickens packed a load in before his untimely death at the age of 58, burnt out by constant activity, heavy drinking and smoking, … Read more