Isabel Lucas reacts to friend Pete Evans being banned from Instagram for spreading misinformation

Former Home And Away star Isabel Lucas has voiced her support for anti-vaxxer and COVID denier Pete Evans, after he was booted from Instagram for spreading misinformation. Posting to Instagram on Thursday, the 36-year-old actress penned an impassioned rant about ‘freedom of speech’, comparing reckless conspiracy theorists such as Pete to to lauded icons such … Read more

From Joyce Carol Oates to Barry Schechter, Gemma Reeves and Isabel Ashdown: This week’s fiction 

From Joyce Carol Oates’s quartet of novellas to Useless Miracle by Barry Schechter, a kaleidoscopic debut by Gemma Reeves and Isabel Ashdown’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Madeleine Feeny and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 2 January 2021 Cardiff, By … Read more

ISABEL HARDMAN reveals how the wonders of the wild pulled her back from a mental health crisis

On the day of my breakdown, I was at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, trying to write the political briefing for the Spectator magazine.  I’d done it every day for four years, usually in just 30 minutes, and it was read by everyone from the Prime Minister down. This time, I found myself staring … Read more

Quarantine and chill! James Franco walks home from the grocery store with girlfriend Isabel Pakzad

Quarantine and chill! James Franco walks home from the grocery store with girlfriend Isabel Pakzad as the stars hunker down and isolate By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 05:08 GMT, 23 March 2020 | Updated: 05:08 GMT, 23 March 2020 James Franco and his longtime girlfriend Isabel Pakzad spent their Sunday stocking up on groceries … Read more

Martini and the recipe for an age-gap friendship: Isabel Vincent’s charming tale of platonic love

MEMOIR  Dinner with Edward  by Isabel Vincent (One £12.99, 240pp)  You’ll be familiar with the magic of the ageless friendship if you’ve ever treasured a close attachment to someone 30 or 40 years older or younger. It’s a magic tinged with poignancy, because you both know that the older one will probably die first, leaving … Read more