[ “How many best friends are in the audience tonight?” Californian superstar Olivia Rodrigo asked a feverish and overwhelmingly young female Glasgow crowd. The response, not for the first time, was deafening screams and hysteria. “Besties in the house!” she smiled in approval. At 21, Rodrigo is the fastest-rising phenomenon of the decade, a Disney … Read more
[ As King Charles returns to public-facing duties following his cancer diagnosis he has also increased his workload by taking on more than 200 new charity patronages. Following a major review of more than 1,000 royal patronages and presidencies of charities, military organisations and professional and public service bodies, it has been announced the King … Read more
[ Percival Everett has written more than 30 books but likes to claim he can’t remember any of them. “I suffer from what we in my house call ‘work amnesia’,” he says. Which makes it ironic that he has spent months talking about a novel he wrote 23 years ago, Erasure, which inspired the recent … Read more
[ On a trip to New York in September 2019 while international trade secretary, Liz Truss posed next to a Mini under the Brooklyn Bridge to promote British car-making. Now, the shortest ever serving prime minister is hawking something different across the pond: her credentials as a leader of the global conservative fightback. While Ms … Read more
[ A weapons armourer who loaded a gun for Alec Baldwin that fired and killed a cinematographer on the set of the movie Rust has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter following the shooting of Halyna Hutchins in October 2021, at a ranch on the outskirts … Read more
[ King Charles and Queen Camilla have said they are “utterly shocked and horrified” by the “senseless attack” in Sydney on Saturday. Six people have died and multiple people, including a nine-month old child were injured after a knifeman went on the rampage in a Westfield shopping centre in Bondi on Saturday. The statement read … Read more
[ China is allegedly flooding Britain with counterfeit Royal Mail stamps, a newspaper investigation has claimed. Sources close to Royal Mail said fakes from China were causing a rise in complaints that stamps bought from legitimate stores were being deemed fraudulent, which can result in a £5 penalty, the Daily Telegraph reported. The newspaper identified … Read more
[ The Nobel Prize-winning physicist behind the concept of the subatomic Higgs boson particle, Professor Peter Higgs, has died aged 94. Professor Higgs predicted the existence of a so-called “god particle”- which helps explain how matter formed after the Big Bang – in 1964. Its reality would not be confirmed for almost half a century, … Read more
[ Israel’s war in Gaza has stoked enormous passions in the UK, with hundreds of thousands of people coming out on the streets to protest and feelings running high on all sides. But despite the intensity of the public’s response to the conflict, it has had relatively little impact in Westminster over the past six … Read more
[ Ultravox bass guitarist Chris Cross, who co-wrote the new wave band’s classic hit Vienna, has died aged 71. The musician, whose real name is Chris Allen, died on 25 March, and the news of his death was announced last night. Midge Ure, Ultravox’s frontman, led tributes to his “instant” friend on Facebook, posting an … Read more
