Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first royal poem is a moving elegy to Prince Philip

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first royal poem is a moving elegy to Prince Philip as an emblem of the wartime generation whose survival was the ‘stuff of minor miracle’ Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written elegy to Duke of Edinburgh as emblem of the wartime generation The poem, entitled The Patriarchs, also refers to the … Read more

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first royal poem is a moving elegy to Prince Philip

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first royal poem is a moving elegy to Prince Philip as an emblem of the wartime generation whose survival was the ‘stuff of minor miracle’ Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written elegy to Duke of Edinburgh as emblem of the wartime generation The poem, entitled The Patriarchs, also refers to the … Read more

Bridget Malcolm stuns as she attends the 2020 Australian Fashion Laureate Awards 

Model Bridget Malcolm stuns in two elegant see-through outfits as she attends the 2020 Australian Fashion Laureate Awards By Zoe Burrell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:00 GMT, 1 December 2020 | Updated: 05:00 GMT, 1 December 2020 Former Victoria’s Secret model Bridget Malcolm oozed glamour at the 2020 Australian Fashion Laureate Awards on Tuesday.  The … Read more

British Library adds Poet Laureate Ted Hughes to a dossier linking him to slavery and colonialism 

The celebrated poet Ted Hughes has been added to a dossier linking him to slavery and colonialism by the British Library. The former Poet Laureate, who came from humble origins in Yorkshire, was found to be a descendant of Nicholas Ferrar who was involved in the slave trade some 300 years before Hughes was born. … Read more

British Library adds Poet Laureate Ted Hughes to a dossier linking him to slavery and colonialism 

The celebrated poet Ted Hughes has been added to a dossier linking him to slavery and colonialism by the British Library. The former Poet Laureate, who came from humble origins in Yorkshire, was found to be a descendant of Nicholas Ferrar who was involved in the slave trade some 300 years before Hughes was born. … Read more

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s new work about coronavirus is released to mark National Poetry Day

It could be verse! Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s uplifting new work about how coronavirus pandemic has changed lives is released to mark National Poetry Day today Poet Laureate Simon Armitage said lockdown sometimes left him lost for words His new work is about how pandemic changed lives and is released today It’s a commission for … Read more

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s new work about coronavirus is released to mark National Poetry Day

It could be verse! Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s uplifting new work about how coronavirus pandemic has changed lives is released to mark National Poetry Day today Poet Laureate Simon Armitage said lockdown sometimes left him lost for words His new work is about how pandemic changed lives and is released today It’s a commission for … Read more

Belarus arrests opposition figures, calls in Nobel laureate after mass protests

The authorities in Belarus arrested two leading opposition figures on Monday and called a Nobel laureate in for questioning, a day after thousands of people defied the army to march demanding the downfall of president Alexander Lukashenko. Two weeks after an election which his opponents say he rigged, Lukashenko has shown little sign of bringing … Read more

Lockdown was a waste of time and could kill more than it saved, claims Nobel laureate

The human cost of lockdown was overestimated meaning there could be more deaths than lives saved, a Nobel laureate scientist claimed yesterday.   Michael Levitt, a Stanford University professor who correctly predicted the scale of the pandemic, says the UK will emerge from Covid-19 within weeks. He also told Prof Neil Ferguson in March he had … Read more

Lockdown was a waste of time and could kill more than it saved, claims Nobel laureate

Lockdown was a waste of time and could kill more than it saved, claims Nobel laureate scientist as he says Neil Ferguson overestimated coronavirus death toll ‘by 10 or 12 times’  Michael Levitt won the shared Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013 for the ‘development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems’ Prof Levitt, of … Read more