Nigel Farage is seeking to relaunch his political career by rebranding the Brexit Party as an anti-lockdown party. The party has formally applied to the Electoral Commission to change its name to Reform UK and will campaign against coronavirus measures. Announcing the party’s new aims, Mr Farage – who has led UKIP several times – and … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: Harry Potter and the curse of the woke fan By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 00:22 GMT, 2 November 2020 | Updated: 00:22 GMT, 2 November 2020 The BBC has invited a fan of author J.K. Rowling to present a 30-minute Radio 4 documentary called: ‘Can I still read Harry Potter?’ … Read more
BBC ‘refused Downing Street’s plea to push back the start time of Strictly Come Dancing for Boris Johnson’s very delayed national lockdown broadcast’ By Amelia Wynne For Mailonline Published: 22:54 GMT, 1 November 2020 | Updated: 22:59 GMT, 1 November 2020 The BBC reportedly refused to delay Strictly Come Dancing for Boris Johnson‘s national lockdown broadcast on … Read more
The mother of Reeva Steenkamp revealed how ‘she shook with anger’ at news of BBC’s Oscar Pistorius documentary after Paralympian shot her daughter dead in cold blood. June Steenkamp said the documentary trailer didn’t mention Reeva’s name which compounds the grief of the Pistorius killing her daughter, making her an ‘anonymous victim’. Critics berated the BBC for failing to … Read more
The mother of Reeva Steenkamp revealed how ‘she shook with anger’ at news of BBC’s Oscar Pistorius documentary after Paralympian shot her daughter dead in cold blood. June Steenkamp said the documentary trailer didn’t mention Reeva’s name which compounds the grief of the Pistorius killing her daughter, making her an ‘anonymous victim’. Critics berated the BBC for failing to … Read more
‘They’re out to pasture’: Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood makes thinly-veiled dig at pros as he claims the show ‘is NOT a real dance competition’ By Rianne Addo For Mailonline Published: 08:53 GMT, 1 November 2020 | Updated: 09:22 GMT, 1 November 2020 Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has made a thinly-veiled dig … Read more
A staycation location to get your teeth into: Exploring Whitby, the spooky town that inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula A holiday to Whitby in 1890 inspired Bram Stoker to bring his supernatural vampire tale to life He was captivated by the ruins of the clifftop Abbey, stories of mysterious shipwrecks and spooky local tales … Read more
Gary Lineker has insisted the BBC‘s director-general Tim Davie is ‘perfectly happy’ with his conduct on Twitter after he issued new ‘impartiality’ guidelines in a bid to crack down on outspoken stars. The director-general set out new guidelines on Thursday aiming to ‘ensure the highest possible standards of impartiality’ among staff in the wake of the damning criticisms … Read more
Shuffling around the exercise compound in a grim penitentiary, a bearded young man, humiliatingly clad in baggy orange overalls stamped with the word ‘CORRECTIONAL’, draws on a cigarette. Virtually the only white prisoner among hundreds of black inmates serving time for every imaginable crime, Oscar Pistorius has become a tormented, self-pitying figure. A born-again Christian, … Read more
Ross Kemp has admitted he’s up for returning to EastEnders if the BBC want him to. The actor, 56, played Grant Mitchell on the soap from 1990–1999, returning for a further stint between 2005–2006, and then making his most recent appearance in 2016 when on-screen mother Barbara Windsor’s Peggy Mitchell died. When asked about going back … Read more