Rows of burnt-out police cars, their sides scrawled with obscene graffiti, grimly illustrate the ferocity of the anger. Entire neighbourhoods of looted shops and businesses tell another story – of the extent to which law and order has broken down. A British tourist returning yesterday to SoHo, Manhattan’s trendiest shopping district, would not have recognised … Read more
His son is 5,400 miles away with a new family and new life. But if anything might have sharpened the pang of separation for Prince Charles still further, it would be hearing that Harry has a new father figure. So claims the singer and actress Katharine McPhee, 36, an old acquaintance of the Duchess of … Read more
To those in Britain and across the world who hope and pray that their political leaders are up to the challenges posed by coronavirus, well, just be thankful you don’t live in the US. Yesterday, Donald Trump compared the governors of states who might seek to defy him over his desire to end the lockdown … Read more
The detective Len ‘Nipper’ Read who put the infamous Kray twins away has died of coronavirus at the age of 95, his family say. The Met legend died yesterday, ten days after catching the virus while he was in hospital with a foot infection, according to a family member. Read, who left school at the … Read more
Scotland Yard detective Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read who famously put the notorious Kray twins behind bars dies aged 95 Read who was a Detective Superintendent in the Met Police died this morning A statement by the Met police released after Read’s death called him a legend East end mobsters the Krays were arrested in May 1968 … Read more
Back in May 2016, Meghan Markle was yet to meet her prince when – as a star of the TV drama Suits – she appeared on an obscure late-night US chat show. The women’s rights firebrand held forth on the awfulness of Donald Trump, then the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for the presidency. Not only … Read more
The streets are so dead now you can hear the ambulance sirens from a long way off. And you hear them more and more. Yesterday, one came for an old lady at the end of my block, a squad of masked medics milling around the stretcher as she was wheeled into an ambulance and away … Read more
Peek into Leonard Cohen’s Greek island retreat on a trip to charming Hydra, where the only mode of transport is DONKEY Leonard Cohen spent six years on Hydra – one of the lesser known Greek islands It is a two-hour ferry ride from Athens and has a population of just 3,500 people Over the years many … Read more