A Covid conspiracy theorist who won a county court judgment against Boris Johnson for ‘defaming her’ is an is ‘an eccentric loner’, her neighbours said today – as Downing Street had the claim struck out. Yvonne Hobbs, 59, lives in the picturesque Leicestershire village of Ashby Parva, on the outskirts of Lutterworth, on a smallholding where … Read more
Departing fund manager James Anderson has called on his successors to ‘become more unreasonable and more distinctive’ as his fund recorded the highest annual shareholder return in its history. Net asset value (NAV) at Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust fund rose 111 per cent in the year to March, surpassing even its performances after the Global … Read more
Madness front-man Suggs commanded attention in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday night at the mini-premiere of the band’s new docuseries. The 60-year-old singer (real name Graham McPherson), who headed up the group as they found fame in the early 1980s, took to the red carpet alongside band-mate Chris Foreman. Suggs rocked an eccentric yellow checked three-piece … Read more
The upcoming Apple TV + series –The Mosquito Coast — takes a different approach to telling the story of inventor Allie Fox than the 1986 film that starred Harrison Ford in the lead role. While the movie had Fox living with his family in Mexico, the upcoming prequel series comes through the lens of the madman … Read more
The creators of Tesla appeared to hit out at Elon Musk in a newly revealed interview, slamming claims he’s the founder of the electronic vehicle giant, when he was actually just an early investor. True founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who set up Tesla in 2003, made the comments in an CNBC interview released … Read more
The creators of Tesla appeared to hit out at Elon Musk in a newly revealed interview, slamming claims he’s the founder of the electronic vehicle giant, when he was actually originally just an early investor. True founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who set up Tesla in 2003, made the comments in an CNBC interview … Read more
Looking to stave off lockdown boredom with a little online shopping? This week sees one of the UK’s most eclectic art collections going on sale in a live virtual auction – and you could pick up a 65-million-year-old dinosaur skull, a floating giraffe named Gerard, or an antler chair that has housed the derriere of Liam … Read more
Looking to stave off lockdown boredom with a little online shopping? This week sees one of the UK’s most eclectic art collections going on sale in a live virtual auction – and you could pick up a 65-million-year-old dinosaur skull, a floating giraffe named Gerard, or an antler chair that has housed the derriere of Liam … Read more
Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, Donald Trump’s former physician who once declared him to be ‘the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency’ only to later claim he was coerced into making the claim, died on Friday, it has been revealed. Bornstein, the Manhattan-based doctor, was 73 years of age at the time of his death, … Read more
Say the word Apple today and we think of Steve Jobs’ multi-billion-dollar technology company that spawned the iPhone and the Mac computer. But a decade before the California-based firm was even founded, Apple Electronics, a subsidiary of the Beatles’ record label Apple, was working on several pioneering inventions – some of which were precursors of … Read more