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Barking mad! Owners share snaps of their VERY silly dogs – including a Labrador biting its own reflection and a bulldog stuck behind the toilet Taking to Twitter, @edsbs, from US, asked people to share their dumbest dogs In one amusing snap, a hound found himself stuck between toilet and the wall Another photo showed … Read more
Tears For Fears star Curt Smith, 58, is joined by talented daughter Diva as they perform the band’s timely classic Mad World from self-quarantine in LA Written by Tears For Fears co-founder Roland Orzabel, the mournful track was inspired by the theories of celebrated psychoanalyst Arthur Janov With lyrical references to solitude and isolation it … Read more
For centuries, the United Kingdom was the leader of the world in the freedom of its citizens. We were permitted to do what we wanted to, unless the law explicitly prohibited it. Unless the sign said ‘Do not walk on the grass’, we could stroll across the lawn. Not for us some irksome, officious policemen … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE RULES OF CONTAGION By Adam Kucharski (Wellcome Collection £16.99, 352 pp) Were there a Booker Prize for timeliness, this nuggety gem of a book would be a shoo-in. But don’t think this is an opportunistic (or a simply lucky) attempt to ride on the back of the coronavirus pandemic. The … Read more
Jo Whiley reveals vile abuse from trolls when she was hosting her BBC Radio 2 Drivetime show made her feel like she was ‘going slightly mad’ The DJ, 54, became the first woman to present a daytime show on Radio 2 in 20 years when she joined Simon Mayo, 61, on drivetime in 2018 Jo’s … Read more
Arriving at a lunch last week, my host introduced me to the other guests as ‘a coronavirus denier’. This was because I had been to a party a few nights before along with several people who had recently spent time in Milan – an activity he regarded as being on a par with visiting a … Read more
Ozzy Osbourne was concerned he’d ‘drive his family f***ing mad’ when he took time off to recover from spinal surgery but gushes that it’s made him ‘get closer’ with wife Sharon By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 18:21 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 18:22 GMT, 29 February 2020 Their relationship has gone from strength … Read more
‘I just remember I was in a taxi, with a fishing rod and some chicken’: Paul Gascoigne breaks his silence on his ‘mad’ plan to befriend Raoul Moat at the height of the killer’s stand-off with police Paul Gascoigne made a taxi driver take him to Rothbury where Moat was Didn’t know Moat but thought … Read more
Daredevil ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes has died after launching himself into the air on a homemade rocket that later crash landed. Footage of the incident shows Hughes, 64, propelling himself into the air on the steam-powered rocket on Saturday, near Barstow, California, before it crashed. The incident may have been filmed for a new TV show, … Read more
It was the move which stunned the City and left commentators speechless last year. How could Kevin Loosemore take a second major job while running FTSE 100 software company Micro Focus, which was itself in desperate need of repair? And not just any job. The job of rescuing the historic company that prints Britain’s bank-notes, … Read more