Magnificent readers help get computers to schoolkids during lockdown

Generous companies yesterday helped lift the Mail’s laptops campaign to an amazing £750,000. Our readers have given a phenomenal £375,000 – in just three days – to help lockdown pupils. And now insurance giant Direct Line has added £125,000 and technology firm Peak Scientific £250,000. Further companies are rushing to offer second-hand laptops – a … Read more

PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Sir David Attenborough’s new series is accompanied by a magnificent book

What a wonderful world! Breathtaking wildlife photos from new book that accompanies Sir David Attenborough’s new series A Perfect Planet By Weekend Magazine Reporter Published: 22:31 GMT, 1 January 2021 | Updated: 22:31 GMT, 1 January 2021 Advertisement Sir David Attenborough’s new series is accompanied by a magnificent book, crammed with stunning pictures and the … Read more

ANDREW PIERCE: Maggie to a T? it’s magnificent Meryl, not Gillian

Producers of The Crown are under pressure to include disclaimers about accuracy, and there is now a backlash over the way Margaret Thatcher is portrayed in the series. Gillian Anderson plays Britain’s first woman PM with an exaggerated stoop, a face etched with fatigue and a tired basso profundo voice. She also looks 20 years … Read more

Olivia Palermo looks magnificent in a leather mulberry coat as she strolls around NYC

She has been the fashion industry’s designated ‘It girl’ since entering the scene in the early 2000s.  And Olivia Palermo proved her longevity as a style icon on Friday afternoon as she strolled solo around New York City. The 34-year-old socialite concealed her enviably slender frame beneath a stunning leather mulberry toned coat. Fashion forward: Olivia … Read more

HENRY DEEDES sees Theresa May on magnificent form in the Commons

She cut a lonely but soignée figure as she entered the chamber yesterday. Immaculately cut red suit.  Perfect hair. She’d even taken the trouble to co-ordinate her face mask with her chic leopard-skin heels. Our former prime minister Theresa May. Has there ever been a leader more perfectly encapsulated by the word ‘enigmatic’? Those hard, … Read more

Truffle hunting in Tuscany is bellissimo… especially in a magnificent 16th-century hotel

The truffle is more historic than we might realise. Perhaps this is the fault of self-styled haute cuisine restaurants draping them all over unrecognisable pizzas and burgers, alongside gold leaf and caviar. Or maybe it’s the sky-high prices, inflated by the internet, TV and film, of up to £2,500 per kilo. But walking in the … Read more

Magnificent animals at famous Twycross Zoo face CULLING

Shufai and Lope are just like any young, boisterous brothers — playing, climbing trees and banging as loudly and annoyingly as possible on a big, blue, plastic barrel. They fight, make up, enjoy the odd sniff at each other’s bottom, scratch their armpits and stay well out of father Oumbi’s way as he enjoys a … Read more

Hope Solo reveals her ‘magnificent’ Doberman Conan is in ‘critical condition’ after being shot

Hope Solo reveals her ‘magnificent’ Doberman Conan is in ‘critical condition’ after being shot … and may need a prosthetic front leg Olympic soccer star Hope Solo revealed on social media that one of her Dobermans was shot on Wednesday night Conan, who she called the ‘best of the bunch’ is in critical condition at … Read more

From Rafe Spall in Trying to new Medici: The Magnificent & The Bill: The best on demand TV this week

SKY/NOW TV, APPLE TV+ AND MORE  Trying The streaming service’s first British series looks like being one of its best shows to date. The series’ pedigree is certainly impressive. Directed by Catastrophe helmer Jim O’Hanlon and written by former Mock The Week scribe Andy Wolton, the cast of Trying includes Rafe Spall, Esther Smith, Phil … Read more

Tom Parker Bowles enjoys a magnificent dinner at Boulevard

Boulevard is a discreet, luvvy-free restaurant in the heart of old Soho. And it even made a theatre-lover of me… ALMOST! By Tom Parker Bowles Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 4 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 4 January 2020 Boulevard 6 Walker’s Court, London Rating: I don’t like the theatre. … Read more