Quarantine can’t stop the Governator from getting in his fitness. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was spotted out enjoying a bike ride with two of his children – Patrick, 26, and Christina, 28, – on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, his eldest child, 30-year-old Katherine is set to welcome her first child with husband Chris … Read more
The chair of the government’s Sage board has said it is for the government to decide when to ease lockdown measures, after one professor on the advisory panel claimed there was a risk to changing the rules now. Sir Patrick Vallance, who heads up the advisory board of scientists guiding the government through this pandemic, … Read more
This House (NT at Home, YouTube) Rating: Verdict: Still rocks the house Unprecedented (BBC iPlayer) Rating: Verdict: Unexciting This House is the Westminster political drama that keeps on giving. It’s the third time I’ve seen James Graham’s brilliant play and, if anything, it’s grown in stature thanks to the hung parliament shenanigans of last year. … Read more
The Government’s two most senior science and health advisers tonight insisted they ‘don’t want to get involved’ in the Dominic Cummings lockdown row as Boris Johnson said he intended to ‘draw a line under it’. Durham Police today said Mr Cummings’ 260-mile trip to the city did not break lockdown rules while a 60-mile jaunt to … Read more
As temperatures heated up across Los Angeles, Patrick Schwarzenegger opted to soak up some sunshine with girlfriend Abby Champion. The couple headed out for a walk on Sunday afternoon around his Pacific Palisades neighborhood, as LA remains on lockdown indefinitely amid the coronavirus pandemic. Patrick, 26, and Abby opted not to wear face masks despite … Read more
Frankenstein (NT at Home, YouTube) Verdict: There be monsters… Rating: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC iPlayer) Verdict: A dream of a Dream Rating: Duelling has been illegal in Britain for hundreds of years, but that didn’t stop Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller going musket to musket in the National Theatre’s Frankenstein in 2011. Danny … Read more
Viewers of a solidly unflashy American TV business show might have thought they’d tuned in to the wrong channel last Friday. With a straight face, the anchor reported that bookmakers were offering odds of 100-1 that Meghan Markle would be elected US President in 2024. Perhaps the item was intended as light relief amid the Covid … Read more
Forsooth, gentle reader, is this, or is this not the week of Shakespeare’s birth? According to parish records in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Bard was baptised on April 26, and at the time it was customary for this to happen three days after an infant’s birth. Which would suggest he was born on the 23rd. But soft … Read more
Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK’s chief scientific adviser, said statistics are starting to show the ‘beginning of change’ and that Britain’s coronavirus crisis did not appear to be accelerating The UK’s top scientist today offered the public a glimmer of hope that the strict coronavirus shutdown is having an effect after official statistics revealed the … Read more