Ivanka Trump is the US President’s favourite daughter, invited to high level diplomatic and economic meetings, said by him to be the most likely to follow in his political footsteps and would according to him have made a great head of the World Bank. Beyond satire. Born 30 October 1981 to Ivana Trump, wife number … Read more
Naomi Wolf, leader of the third wave of feminism and general controversialist, has stirred up another furore with her latest book about legal treatment of Victorian homosexuals. Her research was contradicted by an academic for assuming ‘death recorded’ after trials was the same as ‘execution’ since some subsequently had their sentences commuted; and also for … Read more
Quentin Tarantino has returned to Pulp Fiction top form according to critics of his latest Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which was premiered at Cannes this week. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw described it as “entirely outrageous, disorientating, irresponsible, and also brilliant”. Leo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt appear to be an inspired pairing as … Read more
Career criminal Kenneth Noyes is to be released from prison soon after serving a twenty year sentence for a road rage killing. His CV is startling, with petty theft as a child, moving onto running a protection racket at school which ended him up in Borstal (juvvie). Thence onto becoming a police informer for … Read more
Gentleman Jack is a new BBC drama series about the extraordinary life of Anne Lister, a businesswoman, who entered politics, climbed mountains, dressed as a man and adored women, falling passionately in love time and again. She wrote a detailed diary in code of her promiscuous and predatory lesbian exploits from childhood onwards. Born 3 … Read more
A corruption scandal involving Heinz-Christian Strache, Vice Chancellor of Austria, has led to a snap election being called for September. He was videoed along with a colleague from his far-right Freedom Party talking to a woman who claimed to be a wealthy Russian national looking to invest in Austria. She offered to buy a … Read more
The Duke of Cambridge has said he felt “pain like no other pain” after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, during a BBC TV documentary about mental health. He said the “British stiff upper lip thing” had its place when times were hard, but people also needed “to be able to talk about … Read more
Lady Gabriella Windsor, the 38 year old daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, is marrying her long time beau financier Tom Kingston today at Windsor with the Queen in attendance. Way down the succession at 53, she’s still in favour, despite her wild child youth. Brainier than most Royals, she has … Read more
Bill de Blasio, the twice elected though not hugely popular Mayor of New York, has become the umpteenth Democrat to put his name forward for the presidential nomination. Born 8 May 1961 7.03 pm New York, he is a Sun Mercury in Taurus; with his Sun in a maverick square to Uranus and … Read more
Another country sinking into a political morass is Australia up for electoral grabs this weekend. The incumbent PM Scott Morrison leads a coalition split by infighting and the opposition, who used to be ahead in the polls, now sliding back to be neck and neck, with the Murdoch press making an ill judged … Read more