The Glastonbury Experience BBC iPlayer, available now Rating: This weekend, the world’s greatest festival should have turned into a giant 50th birthday party, with Paul McCartney and Diana Ross as guests of honour. It wasn’t to be, but then the 50th always was a bit of a fudge. Glastonbury missed …...Read More
The Glastonbury Experience review: The BBC has gone retro-Glasto to celebrate 50 years
Getting holidays back on track: How trains can beat planes if you're heading to Europe this summer
Every week our Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you don’t have to. This week: How trains can beat planes if you’re heading to Europe this summer. Among holidaymakers with concerns about catching Covid-19, trains are a slower …...Read More
Labour's Lloyd Russell-Moyle says sorry for accusing JK Rowling of exploiting sexual assault ordeal
Lloyd Russell-Moyle (pictured), a Shadow Environment Minister, claimed JK Rowling was 'using her own sexual assault' to justify her views on transgender issues A senior Labour frontbencher was forced to make a grovelling apology today after accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling of exploiting her sex attack ordeal amid a …...Read More
DOUGLAS MURRAY: It feels like Britain is suffering a mental breakdown
Riot police chased out of Brixton by teenage thugs. More than 20 officers injured, with two treated in hospital. The Home Secretary describing the criminal mayhem as ‘utterly vile’. Meanwhile, lockdown parties and illegal raves erupt into violence elsewhere across the country. No wonder former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Blair …...Read More
Kate Middleton gets her hands dirty in visit to children's hospice garden
Advertisement Plunging her bare hands into bags full of compost, submerging her sparkling sapphire and diamond engagement ring, the Duchess of Cambridge shows that she’s not afraid of a bit of dirt in these remarkably candid photographs, taken as she helped create a new garden for a children’s hospice. Kneeling …...Read More
From Sandi Toksvig's We Will Get Past This to 1619 and How To Survive: This week's top podcasts
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
Charities fear children will be recruited into 'county lines' drugs gangs as schools stay shut
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
NHS to seal the deal on miracle cystic fibrosis medicine
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
Desperate to hit the gym when they reopen? Do these five exercises first, writes MARIAM AL-ROUBI
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
Safety on the beach and why gyms can't reopen: DR ELLIE CANNON answers your questions on coronavirus
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
