From No Such Thing As A Fish to The Allusionist: This week’s top podcasts

From No Such Thing As A Fish to Marlon And Jake Read Dead People, The Assassination and The Allusionist, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 29 February 2020 No Such Thing As A Fish  This blockbuster podcast began as a spin-off to QI. Every … Read more

Online deliveries from supermarkets could take up to SIX WEEKS

Online deliveries from supermarkets could take up to SIX WEEKS as more people self-isolate at home for a fortnight amid coronavirus fears The government have told all elderly and vulnerable to self-isolate for 12 weeks  It fanned spike in internet delivery orders which has left retailers snowed-under  Industry leaders said supermarkets would ‘never have enough’ … Read more

Hilary Mantel, Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka: This week’s best new fiction

From Hilary Mantel’s cracking The Mirror & The Light to a funny debut by Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Amber Pearson For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 The Mirror … Read more

London is a ‘few weeks ahead’ in the coronavirus outbreak, Boris Johnson reveals 

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more

Coronavirus infections in China could have been slashed by 95% if measures taken three weeks earlier

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more

Sebastian Barry and Abi Daré: This week’s best new fiction

From Sebastian Barry’s splendidly old-fashioned A Thousand Moons to an ultimately uplifting debut from Abi Daré, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry                … Read more

My firm deducts my pension contribution then sits on it for three weeks

I work for a global company which has a group pension scheme organised via a major pension firm. We are paid at the end of each month. The company contributes to our pension and will match our own contributions from our basic pay up to a level of 8 per cent. The combined pension contribution … Read more

From Liz Hurley on My Wardrobe Malfunction to the The Reality Tea & RHLSTP: This week’s top podcasts

From Liz Hurley on My Wardrobe Malfunction to the entertaining The Reality Tea, New Scientist Weekly and RHLSTP, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 16:29 GMT, 13 March 2020 My Wardrobe Malfunction Every week on this fun new podcast by Susannah Constantine (of Trinny fame), a … Read more

Louise Erdrich, James Scudamore and Louise Hare: This week’s best new fiction 

From Louise Erdrich’s beguiling latest to English Monsters by James Scudamore and Louise Hare’s timely debut, this week’s best new fiction By Jeffrey Burke and Anthony Gardner and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:00 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 14 March 2020 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich          … Read more