Competition watchdog probes scourge of fake reviews amid claims online stores are not tackling them The CMA is more concerned now that online retail has become more important Those who have been criticised previously include Amazon, eBay, TripAdvisor TripAdvisor said ‘no other review platform does more to fight fake reviews’ Here’s how to help people … Read more
Women could be allowed to freeze their eggs for DECADES as government reviews current ten-year limit After 10 years frozen eggs must be used in fertility treatment or destroyed Campaigners say the current practice is arbitrary’ and has no scientific basis Treatment cycles with frozen eggs rose from 410 in 2012 to 1,462 in 2017 By … Read more
The Queen: Inside The Crown (ITV) Rating: What’s The Matter With Tony Slattery? (BBC2) Rating: What were we thinking? On Monday, March 9, the day Italy went into lockdown, the Queen with most of the senior royals and politicians squeezed into Westminster Abbey with 2,000 people to mark Commonwealth Day. Harry and Meghan were there, … Read more
Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience Rating: Isolation Stories Rating: Like the grin on a Cheshire Cat, the British sense of humour is generally the last thing to go. Ask Neil, who has lived with crippling Parkinson’s disease for 17 years. ‘I was hoping to shake it off,’ he jokes. The gags on Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience … Read more
Why 10-year-old Max knocks grown-ups into a cocked hat! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV By Christopher Stevens for Daily Mail Published: 00:07 BST, 6 May 2020 | Updated: 00:43 BST, 6 May 2020 The A Word Rating: Life and Birth Rating: The best actor on the box right now isn’t Sandra Oh in Killing … Read more
Grayson’s Art Club Rating: The Great British Intelligence Test Rating: Three cheers for the irascible Maggi Hambling. While celebrities were falling over themselves to appear on Grayson’s Art Club (C4), the 74-year-old sculptress announced that either she did it her way or everyone else could get stuffed. First of all, she wasn’t doing any of this … Read more
Frankenstein (NT at Home, YouTube) Verdict: There be monsters… Rating: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC iPlayer) Verdict: A dream of a Dream Rating: Duelling has been illegal in Britain for hundreds of years, but that didn’t stop Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller going musket to musket in the National Theatre’s Frankenstein in 2011. Danny … Read more
The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC1) Rating: First Dates Hotel (C4) Rating: You can tell a lot about a celeb from what he packs in his suitcase. Henry ‘Blowers’ Blofeld, cricket commentator and bon viveur, took an armful of colourful shirts and a bottle of champagne to India, on The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC1). Paul ‘Chuckle … Read more
Extraction (Netflix, 15) Verdict: Violent and derivative Rating: Extraction. It seems fitting that a film that sounds like a dental training video should set your teeth on edge. It stars Chris Hemsworth as that staple character of modern action movies, the former ‘special ops’ soldier, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, now working as … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: That frustration was written all over the face of 22-year-old Luke, in the first of the six-part documentary Life And Birth (BBC1).