DEBORAH ROSS: Even brilliant Billie can’t make me love sordid Suzie

A Suitable Boy Sunday & Monday, BBC1  Rating: I Hate Suzie Thursday, Sky Atlantic  Rating: Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Sunday, BBC2 Rating: This week we finally said goodbye to Andrew Davies’s adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, which limped on for however many weeks it was – it seemed to go on for … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Forget the fishing, this brilliant comedy duo have got me hooked 

Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Rating: National Trust Unlocked Rating: Lime marmalade — that is the correct answer. Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse were having a fervent debate about the world’s best jam, one of them waders-deep in a Scottish salmon river and the other lying on the bank fiddling with his phone. Paul argued … Read more

Elizabeth Day: When a bad haircut is a brilliant life lesson

Hair: Fabio Nogueira. Make-up: Ruby Hammer. Styling: Holly Elgeti. Blouse, lisou. Trousers, Roland Mouret. Jewellery, Alighieri. Like many of us, almost as soon as lockdown restrictions eased, I booked in for a haircut. My hair had grown to such an extent that it was 95 per cent split ends and the remaining five per cent … Read more

Oxford will accept brilliant pupils from struggling schools even if they fail to get expected grades

Oxford University will accept scores of brilliant pupils from struggling schools even if they fail to get expected grades – sparking claims of ‘unfair’ discrimination Students who drop a grade – or even two – below their offer will still be admitted  The chairman of the Campaign for Real Education says it is ‘social engineering’ … Read more

Man, 19, is charged with murder of ‘brilliant’ jazz trumpeter, 53

Man, 19, is charged with murder of ‘brilliant’ jazz trumpeter, 53, whose dismembered body was found in west London house with arms and legs missing Head and torso of William Algar, 53, discovered wrapped up in sheets in January Both his arms and legs were missing when he was discovered in Barnes, London  Police later … Read more

Sailor Brinkley-Cook flaunts her toned figure while posing in a brilliant white bikini

Sailor Brinkley-Cook flaunts her toned figure while posing in a brilliant white bikini during Fourth of July celebrations By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 20:03 BST, 5 July 2020 | Updated: 20:03 BST, 5 July 2020 She celebrated her 22nd birthday days earlier with a boat ride in the Hamptons. Sailor Brinkley-Cook was still in … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The King’s Man is a brilliant combination of epic WWI drama meets action thriller

It turns out that Ralph Fiennes is the original 00 secret agent.  The Oscar-nominated actor stars as Orlando Oxford in Matthew Vaughn’s exhilarating new spy film The King’s Man. Technically, it’s an origin story/prequel to Vaughn’s two successful Kingsman films, which starred Colin Firth and Taron Egerton as members of an elite British intelligence service.  … Read more

Men are more likely to be seen as ‘brilliant’ than women, study finds

Men are more likely to be regarded as ‘brilliant’ than women and it is an ‘innate bias’ that is holding back gender equality around the world, a new study claims.    Researchers say this ‘brilliance’ stereotype could be linked to more men than women working in fields associated with being brilliant such as science and technology.  … Read more

Lizzo unites with Queer Eye’s Fab Five for a brilliant animated lyric video for her track Soulmate

Lizzo unites with Queer Eye’s Fab Five for a brilliant and empowering animated lyric video for her track Soulmate in honor of Pride Month By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 23:37 BST, 26 June 2020 | Updated: 23:37 BST, 26 June 2020 Self care and self love have been absolutely central to the messaging of … Read more

Second victim of Reading attack is ‘brilliant and loving’ American man

The second victim of the Reading terror attack was today named as a ‘brilliant and loving’ 39-year-old American pharmaceutical worker who had been living in Britain for 15 years. Joe Ritchie-Bennett, from Philadelphia in the US, had been working for a Dutch firm in the Berkshire town for about a decade having previously been employed … Read more