His aim with this magical little book is quite clear: to cheer us up and calm The Cabinet Of Calm by Paul Anthony Jones (Elliott & Thompson £12.99, 224pp) How's your mental health today? Mine's a little like my hair: wildly out of control and badly in need of professional …...Read More
The Cabinet of Calm: Paul Anthony Jones's 'linguistic remedies'
Heavens above! Vicar with vertigo climbs his church spire to raise repair money
Even after becoming a man of the cloth, this vicar with vertigo found a higher calling. Reverend Sam Leach conquered his fears to climb his church's 165ft spire in a fundraising feat to pay for repairs. The 44-year-old is normally so afraid of heights that 'going up an escalator, I …...Read More
Want to live longer? Get a dog. Just don't walk it to the cake shop, says 84-year-old Norman Lazarus
HEALTH The Lazarus Strategy : How To Age Well And Wisely by Norman Lazarus (Yellow Kite £14.99, 192 pp) The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, as W. C. Fields observed, 'a man is lucky to get out of it alive'. When the coronavirus arrived, for example, …...Read More
MARK ALMOND on the 'poisioning' of Putin critic Alexei Navalny
The nondescript cafe is where Alexei Navalny, the main opposition leader and Putin’s most vociferous critic, sipped a cup of tea before boarding a flight back to Moscow yesterday Tomsk, one of the oldest cities in remote Siberia, rarely makes headlines in Russia – let alone around the world. Not …...Read More
Pictured: Cheriegate conman Peter Foster's new shame over alleged million-pound scam
Serial conman Peter Foster – a central figure in the notorious Cheriegate affair – was arrested yesterday over an alleged million-pound scam. Undercover police officers posing as joggers tackled the 57-year-old to the ground and handcuffed him as he walked his dogs on a beach in Queensland, Australia. The convicted …...Read More
Charity hits out in anger at flogging of British ex-public schoolboy in Singapore
The brutal flogging of a former British public schoolboy was last night condemned as ‘inhuman’ by campaigners. London-born Ye Ming Yuen, 31, was strapped naked to a wooden frame and caned 24 times after a last-ditch appeal against the brutal punishment failed. Astonishingly, the judgment in that appeal was delivered …...Read More
My love for a dirty old man! Serge Gainsbourg was 18 years older than Jane Birkin
BOOK OF THE WEEK Munkey Diaries by Jane Birkin (W&N £20, 320 pp) For those of a certain age, Jane Birkin will forever be associated with Je T'Aime . . . Moi Non Plus, the heavy-breathing song dubbed 'the pop equivalent of an Emmanuelle movie'. If you're too young to …...Read More
Coronavirus: Pfizer's second vaccine has fewer side effects
The experimental coronavirus vaccine currently being tested by Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech is more promising than the one on which results were presented last month. The two companies say this is because their second immunization also induced immune responses in volunteers, but came with far fewer side …...Read More
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Caps a Week of Starring Roles for 4 Actresses
Olivia Pope and Selina Meyer are used to finding themselves on the political stage. Gaby Solis and Rainbow Johnson not so much. Yet this week, all four — or at least, the actresses who have played them — presided over the Democratic Party’s biggest political event of the year. Celebrities …...Read More
Coronavirus Scotland: Technician swears during live update
Radio listeners who tuned in for Nicola Sturgeon's coronavirus update were shocked to hear a blundering technician turning the air blue instead. The frustrated Tay FM staff member let rip during the First Minister's coronavirus update earlier today as he tried to transmit the broadcast from Holyrood, Scotland. He was …...Read More
