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We don’t know how this will end, but we have a good idea of how it started. The coronavirus sweeping the world can be traced back to a food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the new strain first transferred from wildlife to humans. The idea of cross-species infection scares us because it … Read more
‘It was a choice between dread or self-pity’: Nigella Lawson reveals why she banned cake, presents and singing on her 50th birthday By Jessamy Tredinnick For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:54 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 15:13 GMT, 7 March 2020 Nigella Lawson banned presents, singing and cake at her 50th birthday. The British celebrity … Read more
Return of the Domestic Goddess! Nigella Lawson announces her first cookbook in three years – featuring a vegan feast and a chapter on how not to hate your dinner guests Nigella Lawson, 60, has announced her first cook book in three years COOK EAT REPEAT features vegan food and advice for a dinner party She … Read more
So that’s clear: it is absolutely unacceptable for anyone with eugenicist views to have a position of the slightest influence within British politics. Last week, a 27-year-old Downing Street adviser, Andrew Sabisky, was forced out when it emerged that six years earlier he had advocated, among other disturbing proposals, various forms of genetic selection based … Read more
MEMOIR THE MOVES THAT MATTER by Jonathan Rowson (Bloomsbury £20, 352pp) Grandmaster chess is associated in the public’s mind with disproportionate levels of eccentricity, or even insanity. This is a statistically invalid cliché created by journalists who don’t have a passion for the game themselves and therefore can’t understand why others would devote their lives … Read more