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Henpocalypse! review – BBC Two comedy
Be warned, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph: the opening of “Henpocalypse!” (BBC Two) may put you off. “Imagine being trapped on a stranger’s hen do, complete with screeching women, straws in the shape of penises, and a sozzled bride-to-be enthusiastically dry-humping a male stripper”, all set to theContinue Reading
Best theatre shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023
This comic tour de force is a “bizarro faux-circus act gone wrong”, said Brian Logan in The Guardian, in which the US performer Bill O’Neill plays both parts of a clowning double act: Kevin Calamity, who promises to slip on 1,000 banana peels, or your money back, and his brother-cumgopher,Continue Reading
Sunak inadvertently breached MPs’ code of conduct, standards commissioner finds
R ishi Sunak broke the MPs’ code of conduct by failing to correctly declare his wife’s financial interest in a childminding company which was set to benefit from Government policy, the Commons’ standards commissioner has said. Daniel Greenberg concluded the breach arose out of the Prime Minister’s “confusion” around theContinue Reading
Common heart medication less effective in south Asian people – new research
Clopidogrel is prescribed to prevent subsequent heart attacks. Towfiqu ahamed barbhuiya/ Shutterstock People who have recently had a heart attack are often prescribed clopidogrel, a medication that decreases the risk of having another heart attack. While the drug is very effective at preventing subsequent heart attacks, it can only workContinue Reading
How to be a good listener – and how to know when you’re doing it right
pio3/Shutterstock Being a good listener means having empathy. But empathy is one of the most misunderstood listening skills. Empathy is what we feel when we are trying to understand the world from the perspective of another person. One of the common misconceptions about empathy is that you need to haveContinue Reading
Festival boss steps up legal action over drug testing with call to legalise ‘pop up labs’
A festival boss has stepped up his legal threat against the Government over its ban of on-site drug testing at festivals in portacabins. Parklife co-founder Sacha Lord has written to the Home Office on Wednesday urging it legalise pop-up drug testing at festivals without the need for a permanent building.Continue Reading
Briton died from head and chest injuries fighting in Ukraine, inquest hears
A British father died from head and chest injuries while fighting with the Ukrainian army, an inquest has heard. Simon Lingard, 38, died at about noon on November 7 2022 in Bakhmut in the Donetsk region in east Ukraine. The former paratrooper, from Preston, died after being struck by fragmentsContinue Reading
Shapps visits Kyiv as UK announces support for Ukraine’s nuclear energy supply
U K Government support for Ukraine’s nuclear fuel supply will help end the country’s reliance on Russian supplies, Grant Shapps said after a trip to a Ukrainian power station. The Government has announced its intention to provide a £192 million loan guarantee through UK Export Finance (UKEF) – the UK’s export creditContinue Reading
Government accused of post-Brexit checks ‘chaos’ after report of new delay
L abour has accused the Government of creating “huge uncertainty” for businesses with “absolutely shambolic” post-Brexit border trade plans. The party has demanded clarity after it was reported that ministers will once again delay the introduction of border checks on animal and plant products coming from the European Union. TheContinue Reading
Bradley Cooper, Leonard Bernstein and performing in ‘Jewface’
The nose of Leonard Bernstein, the legendary American conductor played by Bradley Cooper in an upcoming Netflix biopic, has become the focus of a furore over the issue of representation in Hollywood. “Arguably the least interesting thing” about Bernstein was his nose, wrote historian David M. Perry for CNN. But the “bigContinue Reading