The anniversary of Hiroshima comes and goes without mention unless it’s a round figure memorial – this year being the 74th. Nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans with the agreement of the British on August 6 and 9th 1945 which brought an end to war with Japan and to … Read more
The latest Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham Fast and Furious blockbuster is about to hit screens and is expected to rake in record box office for its opening. Initially reviewed as “complete nonsense but disarmingly pleasurable,” when it started 18 years ago, the franchise has gone from strength to strength commercially over nine movies which … Read more
Boos and jeers met Boris Johnson on his Scotland trip as he faced up to an irate, Remainer Nicola Sturgeon pushing for a second independence referendum and Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson who was threatening to withdraw her support altogether at Westminster. He grandstanded – behind a fence – on a nuclear submarine, … Read more
Sharon Tate is destined to be forever lashed to the memory of her murder in 1969 at the hands of Manson cult devotees. She’s become more famous in death than she was in life, her tale endlessly retold in books and movies. The latest is Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, labelled … Read more
‘German industry is in the deepest slump since the global financial crisis and threatens to push Europe’s powerhouse economy into full-blown recession.’ Even allowing for economic journalists’s tendency to catastrophise there do appear to be problems in the wheelhouse. It’s not just the German car industry facing a problem. More than 80pc of Germany’s … Read more
Faye Dunaway has been fired from a one woman stage show in which she played Katherine Hepburn after what is described as an altercation with a crew member and creating a hostile work atmosphere. The play was due to transfer from Boston to Broadway. She’s clearly an acquired or maybe more accurately a specialised … Read more
The death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick fifty years ago in 1969 was yet another dark chapter in the Kennedy family melodrama and an enduring mystery. The story told by Senator Edward Kennedy was that he was driving Mary Jo to the ferry after a party and had run off a bridge … Read more
Rory McIlroy, the golf professional, had the all-time horror start to the British Open in Northern Ireland, his home territory, with an “inexcusable” eight over par. Born 4 May 1989 he had won three majors before the age of 25 and was world number one for 95 weeks; though he was off in 2017 … Read more
That Trump is racist is hardly new news given his track record from way back being sued by the Federal Government for discrimination against persons of colour in rental properties with his father; and more recently his Charlottesville reactions and pandering to white supremacists. The silence from the Republican Party has been deafening and shaming … Read more
Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing will feature on the new design of the Bank of England’s £50 note. He was the technical genius behind Britain’s successful efforts to break German codes in World War II and was a mathematician, logician, computer scientist. His “Computable Numbers,” 1937, is considered one of the outstanding scientific … Read more