Alanis Morissette Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London Touring September 28 to October 4 Rating: Mention 1996 to a music-lover and they will probably think of Oasis or the Spice Girls. But those bands, huge though they were, … Read more
Though the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition at Tate Britain is richly enjoyable, it’s best enjoyed in a comfortable chair with the catalogue By Philip Hensher for Event Published: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 Aubrey Beardsley Tate Britain, London … Read more
HOROSCOPES: You are faced with several options, Aries By Sally Brompton for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:03 BST, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 00:03 BST, 22 March 2020 Aries 21 March-20 April Having yearned for a chance to break out of a rut, you are now faced with several options – although possibly not what … Read more
These headphones sound brilliant but they do make you look like a Teletubby! By Rob Waugh Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 ‘You look like a Teletubby!’ These are words no man wants to hear. I suppose at least they didn’t say … Read more
BEAUTY THERAPY: A masterclass in colour By Edwina Ings-chambers For You Magazine Published: 00:03 BST, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 00:03 BST, 22 March 2020 ‘I tend to steer clear of bold eyeshadows, but these are more of a hint than a holler’ There’s an art to applying spring’s fresh palette I’m currently enjoying feeling … Read more
The Gatekeeper Kate Fall HQ £16.99 Rating: Discretion may be the better part of valour, but it is the worst part of a memoir. Kate Fall was David Cameron’s deputy chief of staff for 11 years, first in opposition and then in Government. Her desk was positioned outside Cameron’s door so she became known as … Read more
Liz Jones’s Diary: In which I’m second row at the shows By Liz Jones Diary for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:03 BST, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 00:03 BST, 22 March 2020 ‘It’s lovely being in Paris on my own. No man to pretend to listen to’ I’m in Paris for the fashion shows. This … Read more
QUICK READS By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 20 February 2020 | Updated: 00:18 BST, 21 February 2020 We’re all rushed for time these days, but even so, the fact that one in three people in the UK doesn’t regularly read for pleasure is a shock. And research shows that one … Read more
From the haunting and compelling Blackwood by Michael Farris Smith to Malcolm Pryce’s riotous new Jack Wenlock novel, thrillers of the month By John Williams Published: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 Blackwood Michael Farris Smith … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK EILEEN: THE MAKING OF GEORGE ORWELL by Sylvia Topp (Unbound £20, 560 pp) Back in 1934, a poem appeared in the Sunderland Church High School magazine, written by one of its alumnae, Eileen Maud O’Shaugnessy. Its title? End Of The Century, 1984. The poem foresaw a bleak near-future in which scholars, … Read more