Advertisement Rebekah Vardy has revealed her 'extreme anguish' about being exposed 'to public ridicule and contempt' by Coleen Rooney in the so-called Wagatha Christie case. The wife of Leicester City and England footballer Jamie Vardy told in a bombshell legal document how she had been left suicidal by the accusation …...Read More

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he was cancelling the Jacksonville, Florida portion of the Republican National Convention due to the state becoming a COVID-19 hotspot. 'So I told my team it's time to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida component of the GOP convention,' Trump said at the top of his Thursday …...Read More

Advertisement Kate Middleton has revealed she is 'in awe' of frontline staff as she and Prince William launch a £1.8 million fund to support emergency workers and the nation's mental health amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, 38, who have spent lockdown at their Norfolk home …...Read More

On the evening of Sunday, January 24, 1965, the BBC made a last-minute change to its schedules. Following Winston Churchill’s death, Prime Minister Harold Wilson had asked to address the nation. Wilson’s opening words set the tone. ‘Tonight,’ he said simply, ‘our nation pays its tribute to the greatest man …...Read More

Pulling back my narrow shoulders, I clung to the handlebars of my little red bike as I watched the other children being hugged and kissed by their mothers. I felt a ­familiar hollowness in my chest. It was my first day at school, and while every other child in my …...Read More

BOOK OF THE WEEK THE SPARTANS by Andrew J Bayliss (OUP £10.99, 184 pp) The 2006 big box-office hit 300 memorably portrays the Spartans as muscular beardies in short red cloaks and skimpy black Speedos, with Gerard Butler kicking foreign ambassadors down a well while shouting: ‘This is Sparta!’ Now …...Read More

NATURE PLANTING FOR BUTTERFLIES by Jane Moore (Hardie Grant £12, 144 pp) Butterflies have poor eyesight, they can taste only with their feet and they have a lifespan of just a few weeks. Yet, during their brief existence, they provide one of the most joyful sights of summer as they …...Read More

BIOGRAPHY JAMES AND NORA by Edna O’Brien (Weidenfeld £6.99, 80 pp) This delectable miniature, elegantly reissued, is a perfect match of author and subject. It’s one lushly literary Irish writer on another, and the result is an enthralling sort of prose poem about lust, jealousy, obsession and exile. Edna O’Brien …...Read More

MEMOIR I AM AN ISLAND by Tamsin Calidas (Doubleday £16.99, 304 pp) In lockdown, it seems our most difficult feelings have been given space to sink deeper than ever before. But we’ve also learned to cherish the small and simple things we once took for granted: the morning’s birdsong and …...Read More

. . . are you reading now? I have just finished Lord (Michael) Ashcroft’s astonishing expose of South Africa’s canned hunting industry, Unfair Game. After reading of the systematic abuse inflicted on the lion, one of nature’s wonders and the staple of the hunting industry, I felt sick and disgusted. …...Read More