The magic numbers to end cold call hell: Free call-blocking codes

Nuisance calls come in all manner of guises.  There are unscrupulous salesmen, automated voices claiming you are owed compensation and plausible fraudsters hoping to con you out of your savings. According to the latest figures from the Information Commissioner’s Office, there was a 20 per cent increase in complaints about nuisance calls last year. Phone … Read more

SPECIAL REPORT: Forget Donald Trump’s foolish tweets – malaria pills aren’t the magic bullet

Desperate Britons are putting their lives at risk by taking anti-malaria tablets in a ‘misguided’ attempt to fight Covid-19, experts warned last night. They dismissed claims by French researchers that the decades-old drugs could ‘cure’ patients and called a controversial study published last month that appeared to show benefits ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘dangerous’. The pills, chloroquine … Read more

Channing Tatum and Jessie J off AGAIN after January reunion …and Magic Mike hunk ‘joins Raya’

Channing Tatum and Jessie J are off AGAIN after January reunion… as Magic Mike hunk ‘joins celebrity dating app Raya with joke about stripper past’ By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 04:40 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 05:12 BST, 4 April 2020 Channing Tatum and Jessie J are off again after rekindling their romance … Read more

Pandemic could be magic for Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury

Coronavirus pandemic could be magic for Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 22:14 GMT, 19 March 2020 Reading and listening to audio­books at home during the coronavirus pandemic could boost sales at Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury.  The group believes books – both … Read more

Beauty Knowhow: The mushroom is having a moment – it really is a magic ingredient

Beauty Knowhow: The mushroom is having a moment – it really is a magic ingredient By Edwina Ings-chambers For You Magazine Published: 00:02 GMT, 16 February 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 16 February 2020 In terms of beauty ingredients, right now ‘It’s all about the mushroom. It’s known to aid concentration and boost energy but … Read more

A tale of a wartime evacuee turned conjuror. A wizard twist at the end. But where’s the magic?

Here We Are Graham Swift Scribner £14.99 Rating: Way back in 1983, Graham Swift wrote the novel – Waterland – that made him famous, or at least almost famous, as he is the Invisible Man of English Letters, rarely signing books at literary festivals or holding forth on Newsnight. Waterland was about the way human … Read more