Stephen King has apologized for making people feel like they’re living in one of his novels amid the coronavirus pandemic. The novelist said the COVID-19 outbreak is regularly compared to a virus he created for his 1978 book The Stand due to several similarities including the president claiming there will be a vaccine available soon. … Read more
Having observed Boris Johnson as a journalistic colleague over more than 30 years, I cannot think of anyone less temperamentally suited to the strictures and isolation of life in this lockdown. It goes without saying that his period of quarantine before being forced into hospital on Sunday evening, was an extreme and unusual punishment for … Read more
Lady Gaga curating all-star TV fundraiser with hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert in fight against COVID-19 By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 17:22 BST, 6 April 2020 | Updated: 17:38 BST, 6 April 2020 NBC, ABC and CBS are teaming up to broadcast a historic fundraiser in the fight against COVID-19. Late night talk … Read more
The Nest Sunday, BBC1 Rating: London Kills Monday-Friday, BBC1 Rating: Friday Night Dinner Friday, Channel 4 Rating: Location, location, location. It’s as important to any TV drama now as characters and plot. Greenery, a cliff (if you’re lucky and need characters to get pushed off/contemplate jumping) but, most importantly, water. Yes, there must be water. … Read more
Stephen Mulhern stocks up on supplies at Poundland during UK COVID-19 lockdown… after being hilariously pranked by Ant and Dec By Olivia Wheeler For Mailonline Published: 15:51 BST, 2 April 2020 | Updated: 15:52 BST, 2 April 2020 He was hilariously pranked by Ant and Dec on April Fool’s Day. And Stephen Mulhern appeared to have got over … Read more
‘This was NOT essential travel’: Police blast MP Stephen Kinnock for going to his father Neil’s house to celebrate the ex-Labour leader’s 78th birthday Labour MP Stephen Kinnock disciplined by South Wales police on Twitter MP for Aberavon unwittingly revealed he had flouted lockdown guidelines He had travelled to visit his father Neil Kinnock at … Read more
Both Boris Johnson and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak have said they will spend ‘whatever it takes’ to beat coronavirus. Neither of them has the faintest idea what the final cost will be. By offering vast loans of hundreds of billions of pounds to companies (some of which may never be paid back), and by paying … Read more
This January, I started treatment for cancer. I’m lucky; I have a very standard form of leukaemia into which there’s been lots of research. Crucially, I was diagnosed early, thanks to a brilliant GP spotting something was amiss with an unrelated blood test. That means my prognosis is good. Except . . . I now … Read more