Former President Barack Obama’s half-brother Malik Obama is again lobbing insults at his sibling, calling him ‘cold and ruthless’ in a recent interview. Malik, 62, spoke to the New York Post via Skype from his home in the Kenyan village of Nyang’oma Kogelo for an interview published on Saturday to promote his new book, Big … Read more
Looking back, not for a moment did it occur to me that my friend Liu from the Chinese Embassy was an agent of any description, let alone a spymaster. For one thing he seemed, well, too genial. And sometimes almost childlike. Whenever he took a sip of his drink, beer usually, he would shoot me … Read more
Looking back, not for a moment did it occur to me that my friend Liu from the Chinese Embassy was an agent of any description, let alone a spymaster. For one thing he seemed, well, too genial. And sometimes almost childlike. Whenever he took a sip of his drink, beer usually, he would shoot me … Read more
Former President Barack Obama’s half-brother Malik Obama is again lobbing insults at his sibling, calling him ‘cold and ruthless’ in a recent interview. Malik, 62, spoke to the New York Post via Skype from his home in the Kenyan village of Nyang’oma Kogelo for an interview published on Saturday to promote his new book, Big … Read more
The return of the Puritan wedding: Couples can get hitched again in churches but with no more than 30 people, no singing and no reception PM said congregations in religious venues will be limited to just 30 people Wedding receptions will separately be subject to household gathering rules Means couples will have to be ruthless with … Read more
Ruthless Romanian people smuggler is jailed for more than three years after dousing his human cargo in bleach so they would avoid detection while they hid in the roof of his trailer Costel Nicuta, 42, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison Smuggler doused his human cargo in bleach so that they … Read more
The disparity remains astonishing. Here are two nations of comparable size. Both have a long and proud history of medical excellence, both are home to international pharmaceutical giants and both are facing an identical biological threat. Yet their situations are so very different. And if there is one aspect of the coronavirus crisis that sets … Read more
MEMOIR RESCUING MY FATHER by Susanna Johnston (Zuleika £10, 128pp) Doting elder sister of the late Spectator editor Alexander Chancellor, slightly less adoring daughter of the late-lamented (and late-demented, poor man) former Reuters chairman Sir Christopher Chancellor, the writer Susanna Johnston has collated this charming, witty selection of vignettes and diaries from her well-connected life. … Read more