American field biologist and photo journalist Tim Laman’s Orangutan ape pictured climbing into a tree to reach for figs has won the 2016 Wildlife Photographer of the year (WPY) competition. He captured the scene using a remote camera placed in the rainforest canopy of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesian Borneo. His fearless bravery effort…
“Snowden” – Open Road Films is directed by the veritable Oliver Stone known for a string of deeply moving and memorable movies already. He says of the movie – surveillance, cyber warfare and drone warfare are all part of the story and of some of our own stories too. Snowden was given permission to stay…
These peppers in the picture really seem to be trying to tell a story with the green one giving envious looks at the yellow one but that is just co-incidence. This recipe is a fun one if you have children in the house and is easy to make – if you are all adults of…
According to The Sunday Times on 16 October an article announced former London Mayor Boris Johnson – now Conservative Party Foreign Secretary has now decided that Brexit is not something he supports. Watch this space for future news on this issue.
After a parade in Manchester yesterday including performances by The Kaiser Chiefs and other singers, and dancing with a carnival atmosphere, including a distribution of gold hats for the crowds, the medal winners from Rio 2016 Olympics came to London today to assemble in Trafalgar Square and later to go on to Buckingham Palace. Mayor Sadiq Khan…
Celebrities including David and Victoria Beckham, Angelina Jolie Ivanka Trump and Amal Clooney were invited to a viewing function earlier this month to look round restored properties which come with their own artworks including paintings and artworks by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Alexander Calder and Grayson Perry and others shipped from locations all over…
My Death My Decision is a group of campaigners who believe they should have the right to die when their quality of life is “below the level they are able to accept”. These are people who want the right to die in old age not necessarily with the accompaniment of a terminal illness. They want to…
Home Secretary Amber Rudd and her brother Roland who is a PR Tycoon (a leading “remain” campaigner) have disagreed on her plan to force non-British workers to be listed by companies which employ them. Roland has described the plan as “appalling”. It seems Ms Rudd’s big brother is “carefully monitoring” her and picking up on her…
Writers the world over will tell you that writing is what drives them on and Jilly Cooper is no exception. She may have chosen to write bonkbusters rather than serious fiction which changes lives and makes people think intelligently, but, nevertheless, she says, “I only have one more novel in me. I am going to…
Lord Harries former Bishop of Oxford discusses his latest book at Burgh House “The Beauty and The Horror – searching for God in a Suffering World” spawned an interview by Piers Plowright and in deep discussion with an attentive audience Lord Harries noted on the holocaust at Auschwitz, the question was not “where is or…