When a Sky News reporter asked the prince, who celebrated his 73rd birthday on Sunday, how his mother was and to send on her best wishes after the Queen’s recent ill-health, Charles replied: “She’s all right, thank you very much. …Read the full story
In fact, I remember thinking Jordan’s depiction of women was pretty dismal – he might have packed in far more female characters than Tolkien ever did, but they’re constantly objectified, forever hoisting their bosoms around, adjusting their skirts – even getting spanked as punishment. I wasn’t sure if my memories of Jordan’s heaving bosoms and […]
The 35 works included Rothko’s 8ft tall Number 7, which was sold for $82.5m, the largest single sum of the sale. The couple were renowned for making barbed exchanges at public events, and their marital strife eventually resulted in a divorce. The sale at Sotheby’s in New York on Monday evening was regarded as the […]
“Gird your loins, Miriam … ” We’re off on a three-part campervan adventure around Scotland with TV’s new golden odd couple, Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming. After the end of Cop26, this documentary observes the 108 members of the UK’s first ever citizens assembly on climate change – all regular Britons going about their ordinary […]
It remains a staggeringly brilliant show; an ice-cold snake pit of ever shifting loyalties, flecked with some of the most giddily baroque dialogue we have heard since Deadwood. Because, really, what has happened? The season began with the fallout from Kendall’s unexpected public broadside against his father and, well, notwithstanding the GBI investigation, that is […]
Maybe we’ll have to go through this every generation now – another thing to add to the list, along with sex and drugs, that any cohort coming into its majority thinks it has invented anew. Talking of tiresome, we turn to Channel 4’s 49-minute-long documentary Diana: Queen of Style. Perhaps the makers had – for […]
“So, in Korean traditionally the two syllables they each mean something different and Ji means, like, smart or wise. At only seven years old, Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the children’s TV program, which first aired 52 years ago this month. Ji-Young will formally be introduced in See Us […]
Such a boy seemed destined to become a hunter, but it was on paper that Smith realised his dreams of adventure – and millions shared them through his 49 novels over half a century. In recent years Smith, who has died aged 88, would say proudly: “I don’t write literature, I write stories,” and added […]
In one, dated 22 August 2018, Meghan sent Knauf a draft of the letter she proposed to send to her father. She added: “The catalyst for my doing this is seeing how much pain this is causing H. Even after a week with his dad and endlessly explaining the situation, his family seem to forget […]
It’s clear from the first scene of Yellowjackets, Showtime’s genre-bending survivalist series with a host of second-act 90s stars, that the girls of Wiskayok high school, fierce soccer stars on the field and headstrong teens off it, will go feral. The 10-part series, created by the Narcos alums Bart Nickerson and Ashley Lyle, toggles between […]
Tom Ford 002, which spans 444 pages, includes imagery by photographers such as Mert and Marcus and Inez & Vinoodh and a foreword by Anna Wintour. Texan-born Ford speaks to me from Beverly Hills, where he has lived since decamping from the UK in 2019. As a designer, he remains fiercely loyal to the breed […]
“Maybe people know this and maybe they don’t, but the term Megxit was or is a misogynistic term, and it was created by a troll, amplified by royal correspondents, and it grew and grew and grew into mainstream media. Harry and Meghan, formally known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, moved to California last […]
The Austrian-born monarch who arrived in France aged 14 to marry the future Louis XVI had the diamond bracelets custom made in 1776, two years after she became queen. Marie Antoinette was known to have carefully wrapped her jewels in cotton herself, hoping to keep them outside revolutionary France. …Read the full story
This beats the previous record high set in late October, when bitcoin reached nearly $67,700 before falling back again when investors discovered a new cryptocurrency, shiba inu. Investors are buying it because they are worried about rising inflation – as an alternative to gold, a traditional inflation hedge – and as bond yields are falling. […]
The UK will suffer stuttering growth, rising inflation and widening income inequalities in the coming months, the NIESR economic thinktank has warned. The Fed’s latest financial stability report also warned that risky asset prices remain vulnerable to a tumble if growth falters or the pandemic intensifies. “By the second half of the decade multinational corporations […]
Four gigs scheduled by Morrison, including one at the Europa hotel, were cancelled at the 11th hour as live music was still not permitted under Covid restrictions. In that video, he again criticises the minister and calls him “dangerous”, albeit referring to him incorrectly as “Robert Swann”.Swann has hired the libel lawyer Paul Tweed, who […]
Her press office said their plane crashed between Mendonça’s home town of Goiânia and Caratinga, a small city 220 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. The rising star performed country music, in Brazil called sertanejo. Minas Gerais state’s civil police also confirmed Mendonça’s death, without providing details about the cause of the accident, which occurred […]
Although his star status was rooted in talent and solid achievement, on the musical stage, in revue and in television light entertainment, Lionel Blair, who has died aged 92, was one of the first media celebrities famous for being sort of famous. Blair was a genuine hoofer and a superb choreographer, who performed a scintillating […]
That meant he might turn up as a stage or film actor, choreographer or star performer on a TV show such as Give Us a Clue. If you want proof, you have only to look at a clip of him doing a competitive tap routine with Sammy Davis Jr in a 1961 Royal Variety Show. […]
