Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop appears to have gurgled in a southerly direction with the winds of change blowing. A Pluto in Capricorn creature it started with a newsletter in 2008, was incorporated in the UK in 2011 and went stratospheric. As well as promoting bizarre oddities like vagina eggs, coffee enemas and $15,000 sex toys, it … Read more

In the unending horror of Gaza, there are two significant developments. One is Arab countries – Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – calling for Hamas to disband and play no further part in the governing of Palestine, the first time they have done so.  The other, inside Israel is the rising number of serving and … Read more

Out of the bin into a resurrected-possible, leftwing Jeremy Corbyn has attracted half a million signatories for his new, as yet, unnamed party.  His partner in the venture Zarah Sultana says their policies will include “democratic public ownership of key industries, universal free childcare, rent controls, free public transport and much more”. Corbyn, added there … Read more

A maths prodigy with a satirical sense of humour, ‘who revelled in writing tongue-twisting songs of discerning bad taste’, Tom Lehrer has died aged 97.   An acclaimed musical satirist of the cold war era he became one of America’s favorite prophets of doom building up a cult following before retreating to academia. His dazzling … Read more

Rapture greeted the England Women’s Football team – the Lionesses – win over Spain in the Euro 25. A nail-biting finish saw them seize the trophy. For Sarina Wiegman, the Dutch manager of the England women’s national team since 2021 it is another triumph. She is the first-ever men’s or women’s manager to reach five … Read more

  Stories of Royal illegitimate children can usually be discounted as a fantasist or opportunist claims for fame. But the recurring rumours of Queen Victoria’s romantic relationship with servant John Brown after Prince Albert died persist. With a further twist as suggestions are being made that there was a child, spirited away to New Zealand … Read more

A fleeting astrological titbit, based on marginally dubious birth times but with intriguing coincidences – comes from two UK celebrities, who rose from poor beginnings to success and money and have gone bankrupt twice.  Martine McCutcheon, 14 May 1976 7.40am London, had a tough childhood with little money and a violent, abusive father, became a … Read more

Cleo Laine, Britain’s most successful jazz singer, who straddled jazz, classical, pop and musical theatre with a four-octave range, performed with the greats like Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra and collaborated for decades with husband, jazz musician John Dankworth has died aged 97. The Sunday Times once described her as “quite simply the best singer … Read more

Ukraine has seen the first public demonstrations against President Zelensky since the Russian invasion as he attempted to remove the independence of anti-corruption agencies, bringing them under the control of the prosecutor general, who is appointed by the president. It would have given him the de facto power to halt corruption investigations that target senior … Read more