New Royal Mail boss Keith Williams in battle to end strike threat after ‘Flying Postman’ Rico Back is abruptly ousted By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 15 May 2020 Royal Mail has parachuted a veteran of industrial disputes into the top job after the … Read more
The Skype dismissal of Rico Back as chief executive of the Royal Mail should not come as a shock. The very notion of the chief executive of one of the nation’s biggest front line employers sitting it out in Switzerland while postal workers have been on the battleground in the Covid-19 epidemic was unacceptable. Royal … Read more
MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 14 May 2020 THE REUNION by Guillaume Musso (W&N £8.99, 320 pp) THE REUNION by Guillaume Musso (W&N £8.99, 320 pp) School reunions can be awkward, haunted by reminders of long-dead friendships and disastrous juvenile love … Read more
PICTURE THIS By Ciara Dossett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 DO YOU READ ME? Edited by Marianne Julia Strauss (Gestalten £35) DO YOU READ ME? Edited by Marianne Julia Strauss (Gestalten £35) When we’re allowed back into the big wide world, supporting independent … Read more
SHORT STORIES By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 SORRY FOR YOUR TROUBLE by Richard Ford (Bloomsbury £16.99, 272 pp) SORRY FOR YOUR TROUBLE by Richard Ford (Bloomsbury £16.99, 272 pp) The moneyed, melancholy, middle-aged men in Richard Ford’s latest collection of … Read more
CRIME By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 LOCKDOWN by Peter May (Riverrun £8.99, 416 pp) LOCKDOWN by Peter May (Riverrun £8.99, 416 pp) Written 15 years ago, but unpublished because it was thought too unrealistic, May’s depiction of a London under … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 DARKE MATTER by Rick Gekoski (Constable £16.99, 336 pp) DARKE MATTER by Rick Gekoski (Constable £16.99, 336 pp) Gekoski’s buoyant new novel revisits James Darke, the cantankerous ex-teacher first seen in 2017’s Darke, where … Read more
DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 14 May 2020 CATHERINE HOUSE by Elisabeth Thomas (Tinder Press £18.99, 320 pp) CATHERINE HOUSE by Elisabeth Thomas (Tinder Press £18.99, 320 pp) To Ines, Catherine House provides a longed-for respite from her traumatic life. The elite, … Read more
The Mail on Sunday today launches a £3million support package to help Britain’s legion of small firms beat the coronavirus crisis. The owner of The MoS, Daily Mail, the i and Metro is giving away £3,000 of free advertising in its newspapers to each of 1,000 small businesses as they prepare to do everything they … Read more
Former Daily Mail photographer Clive Limpkin – best-known for his pictures of The Troubles in Northern Ireland – has died at the age of 82. Mr Limpkin worked at the Mail for 20 years, having previously worked at the Daily Express and the now-defunct Daily Sketch. His photographs from Northern Ireland became some of the … Read more