From Phoebe Waller-Bridge on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day to Ed Miliband’s Reasons To Be Cheerful and Poetry Unbound, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 15 February 2020 How To Fail With Elizabeth Day For one hour each week, the journalist Elizabeth Day … Read more
From Victoria Beckham on As Me to Americast with Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis and White Wine Question Time, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 22 February 2020 As Me Activist Sinead Burke was the first person with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, to … Read more
Households are using 17 per cent more electricity since Britain went into coronavirus pandemic lockdown, new data suggests. The biggest change in usage is at lunchtime when homes use 27 per cent more energy than usual at 1pm, according to Bulb Energy. The energy supplier analysed how electricity use has changed since lockdown began, using … Read more
Marcus Bank cuts its easy-access rate again as it reveals £17bn of cash has poured in from savers – are we set for best buy rates below 1%? Virgin Money cut its market-leading easy-access deal paying 1.31% last week Marcus has now followed suit which means savings rates could fall further Shawbrook has launched an … Read more
From No Such Thing As A Fish to Marlon And Jake Read Dead People, The Assassination and The Allusionist, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 29 February 2020 No Such Thing As A Fish This blockbuster podcast began as a spin-off to QI. Every … Read more
Q I’m planning a nostalgia trip to Sydney, from where I hope to take a short cruise, in a small ship, to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital, where I used to live. Can you help? Edward Mitchell, Bournemouth. Not easy, I’m afraid. Some cruise liners feature Papua New Guinea, but they are usually long … Read more
Finland has been named the happiest country in the world for the third year in a row by the World Happiness Report – and Afghanistan ranked the bleakest. The annual United Nations World Happiness Report ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be, according to their evaluations of their own … Read more
From Liz Hurley on My Wardrobe Malfunction to the entertaining The Reality Tea, New Scientist Weekly and RHLSTP, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 16:29 BST, 13 March 2020 My Wardrobe Malfunction Every week on this fun new podcast by Susannah Constantine (of Trinny fame), a … Read more
Some of the best interest-free credit card offers around have been cut or removed from sale over the last month, as lenders evaluate their offers amid the economic crisis caused by coronavirus. Barclaycard and Tesco Bank have reduced 0 per cent balance transfer and purchase credit card terms throughout March and early April, while Sainsbury’s … Read more
From Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With… to Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum, Happy Baby and The Shrink Next Door, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 01:27 BST, 15 March 2020 Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With… Comedian Perkins rustles up a celebrity guest and … Read more