We Will Get Past This We all need Sandi Toksvig in our lives right now. Thankfully she has noticed and is churning out a soothing daily podcast from her home’s ‘room of books’. We all need Sandi Toksvig in our lives right now. Thankfully she has noticed and is churning …...Read More

The acrid smell of cannabis wafts across the green as a group of young teenagers brazenly pass around a joint. Nearby, underage drinkers swig from bottles of vodka and inhale balloons full of so-called 'hippy crack' laughing gas. This was the scene at 8pm on Thursday in a London park, …...Read More

It has been a little under ten months since Elliott Usher died, aged just 30 – a victim of the incurable genetic disease cystic fibrosis. Like so many others, he was taken far too young, another statistic in a grim toll that rises, week by week. But he was, of …...Read More

The lockdown has given Britain something it did not need – an even more sedentary lifestyle. But it’s not just the closure of gyms and swimming pools that has harmed the nation’s well-being over the past three months. Millions have also missed out on the incidental exercise that keeps our …...Read More

Last week we had to stay two metres apart. Now it’s one metre. Are they making it up as they go along? The two-metre distancing rule was always an educated guess, given that the virus is new so the data available was limited. The UK was relatively strict in its …...Read More

Campaigners have urged Ministers to send pupils back to school a fortnight early in the autumn to reduce the damage to their education. The idea is part of a five-point plan proposed by the influential education policy group, Parents and Teachers for Excellence (PTE), to get children back into the …...Read More

One or two readers have been less than enthusiastic about this big, fat Washington memoir. ‘Bolton’s book, which is getting terrible reviews, is a compilation of lies and made-up stories, all intended to make me look bad,’ wrote one early reviewer, Donald J. Trump. ‘Many of the ridiculous statements he …...Read More

The Luminaries Sunday & Monday, BBC1 Rating: Talking Heads Tuesday & Thursday, BBC1 Rating: The Luminaries is an adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker prize-winning novel, set in New Zealand during the gold rush, and told here with so many time jumps, so frequently, that all your focus was on …...Read More

Boris Johnson today pledges to spend tens of billions of pounds to save the British economy from disaster in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic. In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, the Prime Minister promises a building blitz of hospitals, schools, housing developments and 'shovel-ready' road and …...Read More

SKY/NOW TV & DISNEY+ Frozen II Just when children – and, let’s face it, many adults – finally got the catchy tune Let It Go out of their heads, along came this sequel. Set three years after the original, Frozen II sees Elsa lured to the Enchanted Forest, where she …...Read More