Jeremy Irons has amassed a huge CV with constant work in film and sometimes theatre in his career so far. Renowned for aggressive villains as well as romantic parts, he is known for his calm performance on stage and set. He was raised partly on the Isle of Wight and schooled mainly in Dorset. At…
A new take on Jane Austen’s life categorises her and says a passage about her smile-invoking novels that Jane was “actually a firebrand who was angry about social injustice and critical of the church and aristocracy”. In “Pride and Prejudice” Jane categorises the aristocracy as “Rude and arrogant” claims Helena Kelly, autor of “Jane Austen. The secret Radical”.…
Nine US states have put cannabis on the ballot for November 8 when the country votes to elect a new president. Five will vote on full legalisation in California – the most populous state. Massachusetts, Nevada, Maine and Airzona are also involved. If the five vote “yes”, 25% of Americans would have access to legal…
David Mallinson currently starring in “The Last Dance” (London fringe) has done quite a bit of acting at Sheffield’s famous Crucible theatre where he has starred in amongst other plays – A Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. He stays in digs and sometimes ruminates on the quietness of that lifestyle though in some events,…
The annual value of the EU wipes industry is £27 billion but wet wipes used by so many people for all kinds of cleansing purposes should not be flushed down lavatories as they are causing pollution in the sea, rivers and lakes throughout the world. It will take 500 years for plastic wipes to break…
A powerful earthquake in the Apennines region near Norcia in central Italy, measured 6.6 bigger than last August’s quake injuring 20, and a further nine were pulled alive from rubble according to the Italian media. Tectonic forces in the Earth’s crust have pulled apart 3 mm per year about 10th of the speed at which your nails…
Now in a new film directed by Mira Nair and starring Lupita Nyong’O and David Oyelowo, Queen of Katwe, written by Tom Crothers, covers Phiona, a young girl in one of the poorest parts of Africa, being tutored to excel in the game of Chess, even at first making a chess board by drawing in…
In The Daily Telegraph Lord Livingston wrote UK’s fall from the fifth biggest economy in the world to the sixth place is unacceptable in the long term. UK is now behind US, China, Japan, Germany and France in US Dollar terms. UK annual GDP of about £1.8 trillion is worth few dollars dropping down on…
An American Airlines Boeing 767 bound for Miami caught fire at 14:35 local time (19:35GMT) on the runway of Chicago O’Hare airport while taking off and pilot has to abort the take-off and evacuated everyone on board as emergency chutes were deployed as black smoke billowed from the plane, injuring twenty people. Nine crew members…
‘Nanny Culture’ follows British nanny Julie Mcilvenny, as she travels to the United Arab Emirates to take care of the 6 Al Hammadi family children and meet and mix with their parents and other regular staff including the cook and the cleaner. The story portrays the interesting and sometimes humorous journey of the learning curve Julie and the family undertake, as two very different cultures come together.…