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Feline upstaged? Cat gets stuck in curtain behind student as she delivers speech to her class online Cat climbs up curtain as the student delivers her speech to her class on laptop The feline tries to climb onto couch but gets its claw stuck to curtain’s fabric Student’s roommate crawls along the floor and comes … Read more
Prized for warmth and statement style, curtains are making a comeback. Choose the right fabric, get the perfect hang and your windows will be the star of the show. Since the turn of the millennium, we’ve been taking down our curtains in favour of putting up Scandi-style blinds and an array of shutters. But this … Read more
Perhaps it’s because we knew we had one of the very last golden tickets before Covid finally crushes the Christmas spirit. Or maybe it could just be that panto is so silly, sequined and smutty that I can’t help but grin like an idiot — even from behind a mask and sitting next to two … Read more
What A Carve Up! (whatacarveup.com) Verdict: What a mash-up Rating: 15 Heroines (Jermyn Street Theatre) Verdict: Heroine overdose Rating: Emilia (emilialive.com) Verdict: Rambo-esque rad-feminism Rating: You don’t need to be a Maggie-sceptic to relish this brilliantly inventive recreation of Jonathan Coe’s 1994 anti-Thatcher murder mystery novel…but it may help. Coe’s deliciously macabre 1980s satire has … Read more
Eighty years ago in 1940, a dark cloud of suspicion verging on paranoia hung heavily over the British Isles. The country was at war with Nazi Germany and Hitler’s forces were camped just across the English Channel. Invasion seemed inevitable and imminent, and the country went into a form of lockdown, with barbed wire on … Read more
Not much more than a year ago songwriter Herbert Kretzmer was watching television at his home in Kensington, West London. The news was on and the screen was full of the brave citizens of Hong Kong protesting at the threat to their liberties and independence from mainland China. As they marched they sang a song … Read more
Not much more than a year ago songwriter Herbert Kretzmer was watching television at his home in Kensington, West London. The news was on and the screen was full of the brave citizens of Hong Kong protesting at the threat to their liberties and independence from mainland China. As they marched they sang a song … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: As Cineworld temporarily closes its doors, there needs to be recognition that the days of large scale cinema-going may be over As an entertainment group built on debt, Cineworld was always going to be vulnerable in the pandemic An increasing number of households have access to movies at their fingertips By Alex Brummer … Read more
West End superstar Alfie Boe appears to have brought the curtain down on his 16-year marriage by putting the family home up for sale. The singer, dubbed the People’s Tenor, only moved into the glorious Cotswold property two years ago, having previously been based in America. Now, the 300-year-old grade II listed house is available … Read more
Bride asks the internet for help photoshopping a lopsided curtain in the background of her wedding photo – but gets far more than she bargained for A bride has been hilariously trolled after asking for someone to edit her photo Mel Rees asked the internet to edit a lopsided curtain in the back of her … Read more