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…
Egypt has possessed and intrigued the world as one of the most fascinating countries in the universe hosting visitors who want to see the pyramids and the Nile and Cairo and take in a history of the Pharoahs, Tutankhamen and other kings, princes, princesses and queens or just chill out on the wonderful beaches in its attractive…
The idea of the fallen angel, femme fatale and jilted lover interests us all and in a way Emily Blunt playing Rachel in the film version of Paula Hawkins’ Girl on a Train is all three rolled into one. Her “sober” manner, (actually drunk a lot of the time), darkly sinister and obsessed attitude to…
Snapchat to lead mega unicorns for a flotation on the stock market with $25bn IPO. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering. Five-year-old app, Snapchat now used by more than 40% of young Americans, will be the largest social media IPO since Twitter in 2013. Snapchat CE0 Evan Spiegal (26), founder created at…
Marmite back at Tesco Online as Unilever forced to freeze prices. A dip in pound’s value sparked a major dispute with Tesco and money-grabbing food giant Unilever who wanted increase prices by 10 per cent due to Brexit. Tesco’s chief executive Dave Lewis, who has a reputation for standing up to price-war bullies and eventually…
A 29-stone, 7ft, Male Gorilla Kumbuka, the western lowland silverback’s escape from its enclosure at London Zoo, did not endanger the public, but it could have ended very differently according to the Born Free Foundation. The foundation wants to see zoos phased out- has called the Zoo Expert Committee, the government’s advisory body, to…
King Bhumibol Adulyadej (88), of Thailand, died on Thursday 13th October, 2016, at the Siriraj Hospital, where he had been treated for various health problem for most of the past decade. The US born monarch’s reign spanned 70 years, became much more than Thailand’s constitutional head, and used his influence to unify the nation and…
An interview with auteur and film director Bauddhayan Mukherji Bauddhayan ‘Buddy’ Mukherji is first and foremost a Director (independent film) who also has a full time job doing the same thing – but for TV ads – he gets given the script and makes the commercial. He has made more than 350 ads from agencies…