Kellyanne Conway has announced that she is to leave the White House at the end of this month, a day after her 15-year-old daughter Claudia said she was ‘officially pushing for emancipation’ from her parents in a series of tweets. The 53-year-old counselor to the president said she was leaving for the sake of her family, … Read more
The last surviving tank landing craft used at D-Day which avoided German shelling during the landings only to sink 66 years later in a dock on Merseyside arrived in Southsea today as part of its move to a museum. Landfall, also known as LCT 7074, was restored at the Portsmouth Naval Base in a £4.7million … Read more
The glass that leaves you shaken and slurred: Serving cocktails like martinis in outward-sloping glasses increases the amount people drink by a THIRD, scientists find Cambridge University carried out experiments on students to analyse drinking serving drinks in outward-sloping cocktail glasses increases the amount drunk Drinkers with cocktail glasses downed 30 per cent more in … Read more
Kirsty Wark hits out at cancel culture and warns of ‘dangerous mob mentality’ growing in society Kirsty Wark, 65, says critics should engage with JK Rowling rather than shunning The BBC Newsnight presenter warned of ‘incredibly dangerous mob mentality’ She said people risked being ‘found guilty in the court of public opinion’ By Kumail Jaffer … Read more
I don’t! Wedding guests say enough as cost of attending nuptials hits £460… forcing them to dip into savings or get into debt Wedding guests are forced to dip into savings or get into debt to attend nuptials The average cost per person to attend a wedding is £460, says website Hitched Survey of 2,886 … Read more
‘Poisoned’ Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny is visited by his wife and an aide as bosses at hospital in Germany say he is stable in a coma Alexei Navalny is in a coma but ‘stable’, Charite hospital in Berlin has confirmed The Russian opposition leader is feared to have drunk tea laced with poison The politician … Read more
An aristocrat has lost a battle with his stepmother over plans to build a visitor attraction at the castle linked to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Colin Campbell, the seventh Earl of Cawdor, was enraged after his Czech stepmother, the dowager duchess Lady Angelika Cawdor, applied to build an events, exhibition and banqueting venue in the garden of … Read more
Stop the full stop. Punctuation symbol is ‘intimidating’ to young people who interpret it as a sign of anger, linguists say Language experts are debating the change in use by youngsters of the full stop In the age of instant messaging, some argue the full stop is no longer necessary Some experts say context is … Read more
Nine out a 10 people in England live in areas that have not seen a Covid-19 case in a month and new lockdowns are not needed, an expert has said. Professor John Clancy, from Birmingham University, has warned that fears of another shutdown are based on ‘dodgy data.’ Writing in a blog, he said: ”91 … Read more
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn couldn’t empathise with today’s ‘prosperous’ Jewish community and stopped talking to shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for months, a new book claims. Stunning new details from the party’s largest general election defeat since 1935 have come to light in Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour under Corbyn, written by two … Read more