Exclusive for MoS readers: Discover the Danube with John Simpson

Exclusive for MoS readers: Discover the Danube with John Simpson – see Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest, plus meet the BBC star By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 May 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 May 2019 Sailing along the mighty Danube is one of the world’s great river journeys and on this … Read more

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London albums review: Fantastic music that rewards attention

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London’s first two Chandos issues are fantastic with music that rewards attention and is worth discovering By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:02 GMT, 1 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 1 February 2020 John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London Korngold   Rating: Escales – French Orchestral Works    … Read more

Former speaker John Bercow is alert to pomposity in others but never in himself

Unspeakable John Bercow W&N £20  Rating: The shortest sentence in this autobiography is also the truest. ‘Brevity,’ writes John Bercow, ‘is not my strong suit.’ You can say that again! Unspeakable might have been better titled Unstoppable, as it goes on and on and on, surfing the wave of its own long-windedness. Bercow never uses … Read more

John Lewis putting itself at a further ‘disadvantage’ with lack of retail experience on new board

A lack of retail experience at the top of the newly-emerging board at the John Lewis Partnership risks putting the group at a further ‘disadvantage’ in the cut-throat world world of department stores, a leading retail analyst has claimed.  Speaking to This is Money, Richard Hyman said: ‘If knowledge and experience has any value at … Read more

Struggling education publisher Pearson offloads Penguin stake as boss John Fallon bows out

Struggling education publisher Pearson offloads Penguin stake as boss John Fallon bows out Pearson has struck a £530million deal to sell its stake in Penguin Random House  The deal values book publisher Penguin Random House  at around £2.8billion. John Fallon will step down as boss in 2020 once a successor has been named  By This Is … Read more

ASK TONY: Why does John Lewis keep sending me faulty iPads?

I bought an iPad from John Lewis in September 2017. I started having problems, so they suggested I send it back. Three weeks later, a reconditioned iPad was returned to me. In the past three years, I have had three reconditioned iPads — always with problems. With the latest one, I am having to charge … Read more

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is a massively overlong film where an awful lot of people die

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum                               Cert: 15, 2hrs 10mins Rating: By now, a resourceful teenager – probably living in his parents’ basement in the United States – knows exactly how many people are killed in John Wick: Chapter 3 – … Read more

WHAT BOOK would historian and nature writer John Lewis-Stempel, take to a desert island?

WHAT BOOK would historian and nature writer John Lewis-Stempel, take to a desert island? John Lewis-Stempel revealed that he’s currently reading Le Grand Meaulnes He would take Delphi ’s The Complete Works Of John Clare to a desert island  He says reading BB’s The Little Grey Men sparked his interest in books By Daily Mail Reporter … Read more

Explorer John Sutcliffe celebrates his 70th birthday by trekking from Cornwall to Scotland

An explorer completed an epic 1,250-mile backpacking trek from the tip of Cornwall to the top of Scotland – to celebrate his 70th birthday. John Sutcliffe hiked from Cape Cornwall to Cape Wrath, carrying 18kg of camping equipment and clothing and taking in some of the UK’s most remote and wildest parts.  During his daring … Read more

US senators Jeff Merkley and John Kennedy demand answers from airlines over cameras in TV screens

US senators demand answers from airlines over why cameras have been embedded in some seat-back TV screens Jeff Merkley and John Kennedy have sent a joint letter to eight major US airlines  They want to know whether the cameras could be used to monitor passengers  The pair have put forward a bill to ban the … Read more