The dutiful, health-conscious Virgo Sun around for the first three weeks will get a helping hand from innovative Uranus, lucky, upbeat Jupiter, get-it-together Pluto and stable Saturn with only a minor dip from a lacklustre Neptune along the way. Progress won’t be seamless but will be more free-flowing than last month’s jolting and jangling. Mercury … Read more
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, once Melania Trump’s senior adviser and best buddy until she was summarily fired, gets payback in her book ‘Melania and Me’, described by one reviewer as ‘a spectacular exercise in icy revenge.’ Wolkoff was a fashion and entertainment executive prior to the White House job, producing the Met Gala and being founding … Read more
Japan is facing the upheaval of a new prime minister in the midst of the pandemic crisis with the resignation for health reasons of Shinzo Abe, the country’s longest serving PM. His replacement will be voted in by mid September. The powerful chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga is the frontrunner. Shinzo Abe, 21 September … Read more
Tim Davie, the new broom Director General at the BBC, is picking up the reins this Tuesday with a rolling series of crises to handle – rows over funding, journalistic bias, audience loss to streaming giants. He evidently has bold plans to scythe through the corporation’s over weighty and expensive management, which has been a … Read more
The death sentence has been overturned in the case of Scott Peterson found guilty of murdering his wife who was eight and a half months pregnant, in 2002. His conviction has been upheld. Laci Peterson, 4 May 1975 4.44am Modesto, California, disappeared on Christmas Eve and her decomposed body and that of her unborn … Read more
Another milestone has been passed in the decline of the oil and gas industry with Exxon Mobil now removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Historically the Dow consisted of heavy industries, manufacturing, and transportation, then oil and gas rose up, but they’ve now been replaced by global technology firms. Energy fossil fuel stocks have … Read more
The Trump tribe were out in force for the Republican Party convention with Don Trump Jnr in the lead issuing a firebrand speech in support of his father and a denunciation of Joe Biden. Don Jnr: Born 31 December 1977 (no time) he’s an ambitious Sun Venus in Capricorn in a controlled/controlling square to Pluto, … Read more
Kellyanne Conway has resigned from the White House to spend more time with her teenage family. Her husband George has also withdrawn from his anti-Trump lobbying. It was always an extremely odd set up with his regular, pungent attacks on her boss. She was never that easy a fit with Trump since her Saturn in … Read more
Normal People was a highly lauded coming-of-age romance TV drama series based on a book by Irish author Sally Rooney. The two lead actors Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Mescal were singled out as having remarkable chemistry. He was born 2 February 1996 and she 24 May 1998. Both are fairly intense personalities. She … Read more
Director Christopher Nolan’s latest extravaganza blockbuster, Tenet, a sci-fi spy epic, on a mission to save cinemas from extinction by virus or streaming competition has had wildly polarised reviews. A love it or hate it movie. Five stars in odd places and two stars in others. ‘A dud – a humourless disappointment – easy to … Read more