Revealed: Michael Gove and Matt Hancock are ‘vying’ to become Boris Johnson’s ‘coronavirus chief executive’ Tensions have arisen between Michael Gove MP and Matt Hancock MP as they both be ‘chief executive’ on coronavirus leading the Cabinet’s approach They both take part in the regular emergency Cobra meetings on Covid-19 Last night a source close to Mr … Read more
Married At First Sight’s Mikey Pembroke ‘in hiding’ after bikies threatened to ‘bash’ him in terrifying Instagram messages By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 22:06 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 21 March 2020 Married At First SIght‘s Mikey Pembroke was forced into hiding after he received terrifying threats of violence … Read more
Transformers actress Sophia Myles’ dad Peter dies of coronavirus as she shares heartbreaking last snap of herself at his hospital bedside By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 21:36 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 Sophia Myles’ dad has died of coronavirus. The transformers actress, 40, took to Twitter on Saturday … Read more
Janet Ellis did what many people dream of doing: while on holiday she stopped to have a ‘what if’ browse in an estate agent’s window and came home having bought a cottage. What she had fallen love with was part-cottage, part-cave, dug into the stone of an Italian cliff. Janet Ellis on Blue Peter in … Read more
MUSIC REVIEWS: The performances in Mark Bebbington’s album are first class… it lacks only the final bit of Gallic charm and insouciance that Poulenc brought By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 Mark Bebbington Francis Poulenc: Piano Concerto & Concert Champêtre … Read more
Just when you thought life couldn’t get any worse, along comes the new Ken Loach movie. Sorry We Missed You (15, ★★★) tells of Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a labourer with plans to set up on his own. He begs his care-assistant wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood) to sell her car and uses the cash to buy … Read more
Belgravia Sunday, ITV Rating: The English Game Netflix Rating: This week not one but two new series from Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, and you do wonder if he can be stopped. I’m not prepared to come out of self-isolation to do it, but maybe you have a strong immune system and … Read more
Despite the fact that we’re now confined to the home with our mad toddlers, there is one upside: children these days have plenty of apps and games to keep us all occupied By Rob Waugh Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 Like … Read more
From Maggie O’Farrell’s radiant novel to The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield’s captivating latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Gwendolyn Smith For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell … Read more
A Little History Of Poetry John Carey Yale University £14.99 Rating: Roughly 250 years ago, James Boswell asked Dr Johnson: ‘What is poetry?’ ‘Why sir, it is much easier to say what it is not,’ replied Johnson. ‘We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.’ John Carey … Read more
Hairy Biker Dave Myers is recalling the moment when he saw, through the unfiltered lens of television, that he had got fat. He caught sight of himself on re-runs of The Hairy Bikers’ 2009 Food Tour of Britain. ‘It’s the maddest thing, watching old shows,’ says Myers, ‘like getting your family album out and flicking … Read more
7 Events: From Mel and Sue in Hitmen on Sky One to Casino Royale and Girls & Boys on Audible, Event picks the best things to do at home this week By Keeba Roy for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 The Comedy TV … Read more
It’s Mother’s Day and my motto is: let taste triumph over price tag! Try these options for fun and affordable fizz By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 Mother’s Day is here and what better way to show her you … Read more