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My day is besieged with infuriating health and safety warnings. If I buy coffee at the station it says on the lid that the ‘Contents May be Hot’. I should jolly well hope so, just as I was rather hoping that the biscuit I have bought ‘may contain nuts’, as its label solemnly informs me. … Read more
This year’s Boat Race is already making waves with the news that singer Ellie Goulding’s husband, Old Etonian art dealer Caspar Jopling (circled in red below), may be rowing as a member of the Oxford crew. Caspar, 28, married Ellie last August. But since then he’s combined studying for an MBA at Oxford University with … Read more
The question is as old as time itself: ‘Has the world gone mad?’ You hear it every other day. The world’s gone mad, some say, when the police investigate someone for doubting whether a man can become a woman. Or vice versa. Others say it’s because we take Twitter seriously. Or because we invite an … Read more
Her words are too heartbreaking to bear. By videolink to a New Zealand court from her Essex home, the mother of murdered backpacker Grace Millane told the psychopath who killed her daughter: ‘You have ripped a hole in my heart.’ Bravely, she went on: ‘The terror and pain she must have experienced at your hands … Read more
Michael Bloomberg shrugged off his ghastly debate performance with his campaign vowing he’s just ‘warming up’ after the former mayor was universally panned for his stage debut. ‘You know you are a winner when you are drawing attacks from all the candidates. Everyone came to destroy Mike tonight. It didn’t happen,’ Bloomberg’s campaign manager Kevin … Read more
WHO’S ON STAGE From the left: Mike Bloomberg Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders Joe Biden Pete Buttigieg Amy Klobuchar The 2020 Democratic hopefuls welcomed Mike Bloomberg to the debate stage Wednesday by pummeling him with punches. It was Elizabeth Warren – and not Bernie Sanders – who landed the opening jab, quoting Trump-ish comments the billionaire … Read more
WHO’S ON STAGE From the left: Mike Bloomberg Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders Joe Biden Pete Buttigieg Amy Klobuchar The 2020 Democratic hopefuls welcomed Mike Bloomberg to the debate stage Wednesday by pummeling him with punches. It was Elizabeth Warren – and not Bernie Sanders – who landed the opening jab, quoting Trump-ish comments the billionaire … Read more