BOOK OF THE WEEK WHAT AM I BID? MY LIFE UNDER THE HAMMER by Philip Serrell (Hodder £20, 240 pp) My hope is that Philip Serrell will do for the antiques trade what James Herriot did for cows’ bottoms, as his memoir contains every ingredient for similar popular success. Instead of the Yorkshire Dales, we … Read more
Lockdown, as we all know, has had its stressful and unseemly moments: brawls in the supermarkets, face-offs in the pharmacies. In short, it’s been a dog-eat-dog world out there. And nowhere has that phrase had a sharper resonance than in the market for puppies. As thousands of people have been desperate to get a canine … Read more
He said he had ‘outgrown’ Saturday Night Live and was ready to leave the ‘cutthroat’ show because the cast ‘make fun of him.’ Yet Pete Davidson was once again back this week in two sketches alongside the host, former SNL writer John Mulaney. Pete, 26, left his future with the long-running late night sketch comedy … Read more