The Pretenders Hate For Sale Out Friday Rating: There’s a puzzle about The Pretenders. Why are they not as big as they used to be? In a lockdown sort-out way, I came across a ticket for their show at Wembley Arena in 1987. If Chrissie Hynde and co get to …...Read More

The Secrets She Keeps Monday & Tuesday, BBC1 Rating: The Kemps: All True Sunday, BBC2 Rating: The Secrets She Keeps is one of those television thrillers that has enough twists to hook you in but will ultimately prove forgettable, like that recent one starring Francesca Annis or that other one …...Read More

BBC iPLAYER, ALL 4 & YOUTUBE I May Destroy You Although not exactly unknown before I May Destroy You – her E4 comedy series Chewing Gum was much admired and she gave the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 2018 – Michaela Coel is now being …...Read More

Fat Cow, Fat Chance Jenni Murray Doubleday £16.99 Rating: When I review a book, I mark interesting pages with Post-its. Almost every page of Jenni Murray’s memoir about her struggle with obesity has its own flag, plus lots of scribbled ‘Yes!’s and ‘Blimey!’s in the margins. Such as when Jenni …...Read More

British Summer Time Begins Ysenda Maxtone Graham Little, Brown £18.99 Rating: For those of us who were born before the arrival of smartphones and video games and all-day telly, this splendid book rings bells galore. Take those interminably long car journeys to holiday destinations before the coming of the motorway, …...Read More

Wednesday, July 1 Captain, now Colonel, Tom Moore phoned me for a chat this afternoon. He still hasn’t left the house since his world turned upside down with his £33 million fundraising walk around his garden, so has no idea how absurdly famous he now is. ‘Be warned,’ I said, …...Read More

Ask Me Anything P. Z. Reizin Sphere £16.99 Our devices are spying on us – but whose side are they on? Daisy’s smart fridge is tired of harvesting marketing data on her toxic food and dating choices. So it recruits a secret squad of rogue appliances ready to risk everything …...Read More

Julie’s Library I could listen to Julie Andrews read the side of a packet of Pringles. In her new podcast, she settles down with her daughter Emma to read their favourite children’s books. In Julie Andrews' new podcast, she settles down with her daughter Emma to read their favourite children’s …...Read More

But after major pushback from educator groups, who felt there was too little attention on the health risks for adults who work in schools, the Academy joined with the two national teachers’ unions on Friday to release a statement saying, “Schools in areas with high levels of Covid-19 community spread …...Read More

Much of that Nation’s history and even its name, bear the imprint of America’s colonial legacy. “Muscogee” is the name of their language and the name of the confederacy of tribes that once sprawled across much of Alabama, Georgia and northern Florida in a system of interlocking tribal towns with …...Read More