Jeopardy stalks Trump from various directions as a new Congress gets under way, with the greatest risk coming from Adam Schiff, newly installed chairman of the House intelligence committee and a former federal prosecutor. He has said he plans to home in on an area the president has tried to fence off: the details … Read more
Mike Pence is the fallback Plan B for the White House if Trump were to fall off his perch for whatever reason, impeachment being the least likely since it would need a two-thirds vote in the Republican controlled senate. Pence does pick up tr Pluto sextile his Jupiter in Scorpio from February 2020 … Read more
Vivien Leigh’s ravishing beauty and her high-profile, power-couple marriage to Laurence Olivier, have tended to obscure her undoubted talent as an actress on screen and stage. She is best known for playing Scarlett O’ Hara in Gone with the Wind and twelve years later Blanche DuBois in Streetcar Named Desire, for both of … Read more
What came to be known as Tecumseh’s Curse laid on US presidents who were elected in years divisible by twenty by an irate Shawnee Native American chief does spookily appear to hold good. Tecsumeh was angered by dirty dealings over native land by William Harrison who became president in 1840 – and died … Read more
Actress Keira Knightley has been letting fly in all directions with some fruity and forthright opinions on the status of women, banning her daughter from watching Cinderella – waken yourself up, don’t wait for a rich guy to come along. She’s been acting since she was six, was a tomboy as a child, … Read more
Nasa’s New Horizons space probe has survived its attempt to carry out a record-breaking exploratory mission four billion miles from Earth. The probe has made contact with Earth to confirm its successful flyby of the icy Ultima Thule space rock, a new record for the furthest object ever explored in the Solar System about … Read more
Scotland is standing on one foot watching the Brexit vote(s) with anxiety. Almost two thirds voted to remain within the EU and a shambolic exit might well tip the balance for a second Independence Referendum. The Act of Union between Scotland and England took effect on 1 May 1707 (JC) and has a … Read more
Nancy Grace Roman, “Mother of Hubble”, has died aged 93. An American astronomer, the first female executive at NASA, she was instrumental in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. Throughout her career, she was an active public speaker and educator, and advocate for women in the sciences. Born 16 May 1925 in Nashville, she … Read more
“A life full of love, affection and laughter, of gigs, gags and a couple of gongs” was how June Whitefield summed up her extraordinarily long and successful career. She has just died aged 93, having reigned for more than six decades as one of Britain’s most popular and busy comedy actresses. Over the … Read more
Explorer and endurance athlete 33 year old Colin O’Brady has become the first man to cross Antarctica on foot unaided, which was deemed impossible. It took 54 days to walk 1500 kilometres dragging a 170-kg (375 lb) sled for 12-13 hours per day mainly uphill over ridged ice. He covered the final 80 … Read more