Who’d ever have thought it? The most reliable, and dare I say wooden, member of the younger royals stole the show with a comic turn on the BBC’s fundraiser The Big Night In. Yes, there was Prince William in a Blackadder sketch with Stephen Fry joking he wasn’t wearing any trousers! His Goon-loving dad Charles … Read more
Ben Affleck’s Deep Water co-star turned girlfriend Ana de Armas enjoys a solo walk with her pup in LA sunshine By Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 19:39 BST, 24 April 2020 | Updated: 06:36 BST, 25 April 2020 Ben Affleck is frequently seen on PDA-filled dog walks with his girlfriend Ana de Armas, who he … Read more
While a fine wine gets better with the age, sadly that’s not the case if you’ve already drunk half the bottle. Once you’ve opened your favourite tipple, experts recommending polishing it off within 24 hours to avoid compromising taste. This is because after you’ve consumed half or more, phenols within the wine which affect its flavour … Read more
The people of Nazareth may have forced Jesus out of town because of their intolerance to new ways of thinking and resistance to change, a new book suggests. This was driven by a staunch adherence to Jewish law and is also the reason the city wholly rejected Roman culture and influence. Nazareth is the biblical … Read more
Here We Are Graham Swift Scribner £14.99 Rating: Way back in 1983, Graham Swift wrote the novel – Waterland – that made him famous, or at least almost famous, as he is the Invisible Man of English Letters, rarely signing books at literary festivals or holding forth on Newsnight. Waterland was about the way human … Read more
Boeing’s 787 airliners will soon have to be turned off and on again at least every 51 days to prevent ‘several potentially catastrophic failure scenarios’. A directive from the US government will force the planes to be shut down regularly to avoid glitches in the on-board computer systems. If left for too long without being … Read more
Janet Ellis did what many people dream of doing: while on holiday she stopped to have a ‘what if’ browse in an estate agent’s window and came home having bought a cottage. What she had fallen love with was part-cottage, part-cave, dug into the stone of an Italian cliff. Janet Ellis on Blue Peter in … Read more
MEMOIR LONG WAY HOME by Dan Jarvis (Little Brown £18.99, 320pp) Most politicians with a 24-carat diamond of an anecdote about a former prime minister will treat it as the crowning glory of their autobiography. They’ll spin it till it dazzles. Not Dan Jarvis, Labour MP for Barnsley Central. He chucks in a story about … Read more