The one lesson I’ve learned from life: Suggs from Madness says music helps you through bad times Graham McPherson, 59, who lives in North London, is better known as Suggs Madness frontman explained music is an emotional tool that has helped him He listened to an old CD recorded by his mother, Edwina, when she died … Read more
If you spend a lot of time on Twitter (and I do at the moment), you can end up reading some very odd claims. Apparently smoking protects against Covid-19, the virus is using the 5G mobile-phone network to spread, and eating raw garlic will keep corona at bay. Needless to say, many of the claims … Read more
It’s Tuesday evening. I’m wearing a uniform of green T-shirt and black trousers and find myself engaged in a delicate negotiation over a bottle of pinot grigiot. I’m quite familiar with the stuff. In normal times I’m a celebrity agent to a number of high-profile clients, among them Martina Navratilova and Andrew Marr, and it’s … Read more
Elizabeth Day: I think I’ve finally lost the plot By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:02 BST, 19 April 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 19 April 2020 Hair: Fabio Nogueira. Make-up: Ruby Hammer. Styling: Holly Elgeti. Dress, Stine Goya, fenwick.co.uk. Jewellery, Alighieri. There are times in your life when you feel radically misaligned with … Read more
Kelly Clarkson is taking on the world with her new song. The original American Idol champ and Grammy winner, 37, dropped her new song I Dare You on Thursday, and with it revealed five alternative duets with multinational singers which produced versions of the song in French, Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew and German. Clarkson, who is also … Read more
The one lesson I’ve learned from life: Edwina Currie says being in nature gives me faith Edwina Currie, 73, who lives in the Peak District, was an MP from 1983 to 1997 Being in nature makes her feel in tune with something beyond humanity Former junior health minister walks as much as possible with her … Read more
Until a fortnight ago, it’s unlikely many British workers had ever encountered the term ‘furloughed’, but now it is a concept that has been thrust into the spotlight by the coronavirus crisis. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a series of measures to cover the wages of millions of people suddenly left without work and prevent … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a series of measures to cover the wages of millions of people suddenly left without work and prevent businesses going bankrupt due to the coronavirus crisis. The so-called coronavirus job retention scheme enables businesses to continue paying part of their employees’ salary who would otherwise have been laid off because … Read more
Prior to this wretched virus lockdown, in the hazy past of just two weeks ago, lots of people complained about suffering from FOMO —the intense envy of other people’s glittering social lives, aka the Fear Of Missing Out. Not me though. Sure, I might come across as an extrovert on television, but I am not … Read more
I’ve come into some money and would like to pay down my mortgage but my lender has an overpayment limit – is there any way around this? By This Is Money Reporter Published: 07:46 BST, 16 April 2019 | Updated: 15:40 BST, 16 April 2019 I’ve recently received a generous lump sum of cash and … Read more