Well, it would have to be a French referee, wouldn’t it? English rugby supporters are still raging about a decision by Pascal Gauzere in the match between us and the Welsh on Saturday, when he instructed the England captain Owen Farrell to tell his team to ‘change your behaviour’. While Farrell gathered them around to … Read more
When on a winning streak, you should make the most of it. And the British Government has hit the jackpot (again) with its Covid vaccination policy. The Lancet has just published a study of 9,000 healthcare workers conducted by the Sheba Medical Centre in Israel (the country is the front runner in the global vaccination … Read more
A Town Called Solace Mary Lawson Chatto & Windus £14.99 Rating: At the moment, the contemporary novelists and short-story writers I … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus vaccine postcode lottery has been laid bare after a number of celebrities revealed they have already had their first dose. US singer Courtney Love became the latest star to get the injection today at an NHS clinic in Chelsea, West London. The 56-year-old — whose representatives say has an underlying health condition that makes … Read more
Nigella Lawson, 61, says her ‘head is in a spin’ after being called for Covid jab – as over 60s in some regions have ALREADY had vaccine despite being in the next phase of national roll-out TV chef Nigella Lawson said her ‘head is in a spin’ at being called for vaccine The 61-year-old Londoner is meant … Read more
Australian actor Josh Lawson says he’s abandoned dreams of becoming a Hollywood leading man because he ‘can’t compete’ with ‘genetic freaks’ like Chris Hemsworth By Alisha Buaya For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:47 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 02:02 GMT, 13 February 2021 Josh Lawson has come a long way from starring on Thank … Read more
Nigella Lawson is reportedly set to be an art critic on TV show Grayson’s Art Club. The writer and television chef, 61, is thought to be appearing during Food week and will judge entries sent in by the public, reports The Mirror. It comes eight years after she split from gallery owner ex-husband Charles Saatchi, … Read more
Political civil war has broken out in the Johnson family — and not for the first time. The Prime Minister’s father, 80-year-old Stanley, has denounced the Government’s decision not to block the construction of Woodhouse Colliery, Britain’s first new deep coal mine in over 30 years. Last week, Johnson Sr pronounced this to be ‘a … Read more
One of the attractive aspects of the Dutch character is an insistence on plain speaking. Even so, it was quite something when, after we voted to leave the EU, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, declared that, as a result, ‘England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically’. Let’s bring things up to … Read more
And now, some breaking news: whenever your earnings increase, you feel a bit happier. What, you knew that already? Well, you were ahead of the game. For the established academic view had been that once a person’s income had risen to around £55,000, any further increase did not add to so-called ‘experienced’ happiness. That ‘rule’ … Read more