PATRICK MARMION reviews What’s New Pussycat?: Tom Jones’s lusty tale of woah (woah, woah)
What’s New with Pussycats? (Birmingham Rep.) Verdict: A knicker-tosser glory! Rating: As tempting as it was to bring along a pair knickers, the real Tom Jones is not part of…
ADRIAN THRILLS: How a meeting with a neighbour sparked Elton John’s first album for five years
Elton John: The Lockdown Sessions (EMI Universal). Rating: Verdict: Rocketman is headed for the stars Lana Del Rey: Blue Banisters (Polydor) Rating: Verdict: Bold step forward For Elton John, the…
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Rebecca Hall gives her all directing drama that’s close to home
Rebecca Hall’s emotions are close to the surface as she recalls how her mother, the renowned opera singer Maria Ewing, insisted she receive an internet link so she could watch…
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Who let double entendre fan Mel loose with power tools?
Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker Rating: All Creatures Great And Small Rating: The trouble with taking the moral high ground is the long climb back down. When Bake Off defected to…
ALEX BRUMMER: Rishi’s budget plan will make Britain less competitive
The foolishness of raising taxes: Britain’s budget plans are likely to make Britain less competitive, says ALEX BRUMMER Alex Brummer, Daily Mail Published: 16:55 EDT 21 October 2021 | Last…
After WWI , some of our greatest female artists rejected stifling domesticity
BIOGRAPHY THIS DARK COUNTRY by Rebecca Birrell (Bloomsbury £25, 384 pp) Gluck (no prefix).’ That was how the artist known as Gluck (born Hannah Gluckstein) signed her business letters. I…
How ‘Allo ‘Allo outlasted the Nazi occupation
Author shares random facts in a new trivia tome – from how ’Allo ’Allo outlasted the Nazi occupation to Genghis Khan’s killing of an estimated 11 per cent of the…
WHAT BOOK would author Christy Lefteri take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would Christy Lefteri take on a desert island? Christy Lefteri has just finished reading The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah Author would take Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf…
It’s NOT business as usual, says Unilever boss Alan Jope
Unilever boss warns of inflation, supply woes as well as the threat to more lockdowns. By Tom Witherow for The Daily Mail Published: 16:50 EDT 21 October 2021 | Last…
Barclays bankers set for bonus bonanza as dealmaking boosts profits
Barclays bankers get a bonus bonanza when City dealmaking pushes profits to record heights Mark Shapland for The Daily Mail Published: 16:50 EDT, 21 Oct 2021 | Last Updated: 17:27…