Life-long Tory voter Jeremy Clarkson says he could back Labour at next general election as he slams ‘talking teddy bear’ Boris Johnson over the Conservatives’ handling of coronavirus Former Top Gear host said he would consider supporting Sir Keir Starmer Slammed Boris Johnson for his ‘not particularly good’ handling of pandemic He also criticised Boris … Read more
Lunch together was my mother’s idea. I was 18 and had returned home briefly between trips to Israel and America on a gap year before university. How lovely, I thought. Perhaps this was a chance for us to get to know one another better, because although she hadn’t been a bad mother, our relationship was … Read more
The year was 1976, figure skater Dorothy Hamill was dominating the Winter Olympics, and in suburban Reading my mother was giving her unwilling daughter an approximation of Hamill’s short pageboy bob. I always wanted long, curly hair, because the little girl who lived next door told me that angels had hair like that. But what … Read more
Pierce Brosnan declares coronavirus a ‘war’ as he reveals two of his lifelong friends have died after battling the disease By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 16:55 BST, 12 June 2020 | Updated: 17:10 BST, 12 June 2020 Pierce Brosnan has revealed two of his lifelong friends have died after battling coronavirus. The former James … Read more
The film star Catherine Deneuve kept up a lifelong affair with the rock singer Johnny Hallyday behind his wives’ backs, it has been claimed in their native France. The pair became lovers when they were teenagers, and their passionate trysts continued right up until the ‘French Elvis’s’ death three years ago, aged 74. Hallyday frequently … Read more
Hardline local authorities with under-performing primary schools are among those refusing to reopen next week, as experts warn it may cause ‘lifelong damage’ to poor pupils 23 local education authorities in England opposed to June 1 school re-openings This includes deprived areas such as Manchester, Hartlepool and Knowsley Lee Elliot Major warned that each week away … Read more
Fifty-one years ago this month, a shy young man in a collar and tie climbed the 87 steps of a spiral staircase to his new tutor’s study. The Prince of Wales faced eight weeks of intensive instruction in Welsh: the language, Wales’s history and, crucially, its nationalism. But if the Prince of Wales was daunted … Read more