John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London’s first two Chandos issues are fantastic with music that rewards attention and is worth discovering By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:02 GMT, 1 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 1 February 2020 John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London Korngold Rating: Escales – French Orchestral Works … Read more
Exclusive for MoS readers: Discover the Danube with John Simpson – see Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest, plus meet the BBC star By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 May 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 May 2019 Sailing along the mighty Danube is one of the world’s great river journeys and on this … Read more
Unspeakable John Bercow W&N £20 Rating: The shortest sentence in this autobiography is also the truest. ‘Brevity,’ writes John Bercow, ‘is not my strong suit.’ You can say that again! Unspeakable might have been better titled Unstoppable, as it goes on and on and on, surfing the wave of its own long-windedness. Bercow never uses … Read more
John Lewis joins the instagram generation with a personalised fashion-advice service By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2020 | Updated: 09:36 GMT, 14 March 2020 John Lewis is trialling a personalised fashion advice service on Instagram to try and bring shoppers back to its department stores. Shoppers will be … Read more
The Who made their US television debut in September 1967 on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a prime-time variety show. Co-host Tommy Smothers had recently compered the Monterey Pop Festival, where the band had violently smashed their equipment to pieces, and he had invited them to repeat the sturm und drang of their Monterey set. … Read more
Music superstars Chris Martin and Keith Urban performed free live-streamed concerts for their fans from their homes on Monday, which lead more stars to follow suit.
We are good in this country at holding our nerve and steadying one another. But a pandemic is something else; you can’t touch the virus, see it or even know where it is. It may be spread by those who don’t even know they are infected. It is very serious for some, very mild for many. … Read more