From crippling businesses to sending us stir-crazy, lockdowns already have a lot to answer for. But there’s another charge to lay at their door: they could be making us worse investors. The best investment decisions are made when we’re cool and collected and able to follow a strategy. Yet the pandemic and lockdowns are sending … Read more
She started the week in hysterics after taking part in very own ‘Bushtucker Trial’ in honour of I’m A Celebrity’s impending return. Yet Amanda Holden was back to her typical poised and glamorous self as she was pictured leaving the Global Radio studios in London on Friday. The radio host, 49, looked effortlessly stylish in … Read more
Donald Trump’s calm 10-minute public outing on Veterans Day belied a White House in tumult, as some of his aides say they are certain legal challenges won’t change the election result and they reveal he hasn’t attended an intelligence meeting in weeks. Trump was seen for the first time in public in days Wednesday when he … Read more
Calling all savers: step away from your investment accounts. I repeat: put down your tablet or smartphone and back away slowly with your hands in the air. What a week! After months of doom and gloom, there is light at the end of the tunnel at last. With markets already riding high after Joe Biden’s … Read more
Having attended the annual commemorations at the Cenotaph more times than anyone else in history, it was unsurprising that the Queen was curious about yesterday’s threadbare affair. It was a century ago this week that her grandfather, King George V, unveiled Britain’s memorial to the ‘Glorious Dead’. For seventy of those intervening years she has … Read more
Donald Trump’s presidency is slipping away. Slowly but surely, the Electoral College needle is moving inexorably in his Democrat rival Joe Biden’s favour. Of course, it’s still technically possible that Trump could pull off another miracle like he did in 2016. (If there’s one thing everyone surely can agree about him, it’s that nothing about … Read more
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have urged the public to shop normally during the second national lockdown. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, asked for ‘calm, courage and compassion’ as England was plunged into a second national lockdown today, reported the Telegraph. The message comes after photographs … Read more
An orchestra started playing in an opera house in Vienna to keep an audience calm after they had been told to stay inside while a terror rampage unfolded in the streets. The Austrian capital witnessed a ‘repulsive’ shooting attack in six locations on Monday, including near a synagogue and the world famous Wiener Staatsoper opera … Read more
An owner has revealed how to create a DIY ear muff out of a single sock to help keep dogs calm on bonfire night. Caitlin Miller, 17, from South Shields, Tyne and Wear, had been looking for a more cost-effective way to calm her pets when fireworks were let off. Instead of purchasing stress bands … Read more
Denise Welch was told to ‘calm down’ by Eamonn Holmes during a very heated on Friday’s This Morning. The Loose Women panelist, 62, appeared on the show to discuss coronavirius ‘scaremongering’ as she argued that the government was scaring people with their overreaction to Covid-19 numbers. And things got very intense as host Eamonn, 60, … Read more