Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah’s trainer Alberto Salazar, has been banned for four years for “orchestrating and facilitating prohibited doping conduct”. Farah is the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history, with gold medals for both 5000 m and 10,000 m. He trained with Salazar for nearly seven years during which time he … Read more
Multiple allegations and firm denials are flying around over Boris Johnson’s association with American entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri during his time as London Mayor. The Sunday Times reported that Ms Arcuri was given £126,000 in public money and privileged access to three foreign trade missions led by him during this time. And friends are quoted as … Read more
Lenny Henry, the Brit comedian and Shakespearean actor, has brought out a memoir covering his childhood and early career after he won New Faces, but stops before his marriage to Dawn French. He was born 29 August 1958 at 3 am (from memory) in Sedgley, England to Jamaican immigrant parents, though he only discovered … Read more
“I haven’t been happy one minute of my entire fucking life,” says Arthur in Todd Phillips’ movie ‘Joker’. He’s a mentally ill, impoverished, failed stand-up comedian who suffers from pathological laughter and turns to crime in despair. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and critics rave about Joaquin Phoenix’s performance … Read more
Dina Asher Smith, the young British runner, has been called one of the most exciting athletes in the world and she’s aiming for a hat trick of three at the Doha Championships on now till October 6th. Not only is she gutsy and dedicated to her training, she’s also got a sideline in modelling and … Read more
The House of Commons descended into screeching and unappealing rage yesterday with the warm up being provided by Geoffrey Cox, the Attorney General, whose legal advice on prorogation had been so firmly squashed by 11 Supreme Court judges. Blithely ignoring their ruling he declared with a full Shakespearean flourish: “This Parliament is a dead Parliament!” … Read more
Born with a silver spoon she definitely wasn’t. The story from former Hollywood megastar Demi Moore – Ghost, A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal- in her memoir Inside Out is of a tormented childhood. She and her brother survived her parents’ chaotic and destructive lifestyle of drugs, alcohol and mental illness. From age 12 she … Read more
What’s to say that hasn’t been said before? The Boris Government chart is riven with argument – picking up September 22nd till late October with tr Uranus square the heated Mercury/Mars midpoint; and is having a minor nervous breakdown with tr Neptune square the Mercury/Uranus midpoint now till mid November when it gets a great … Read more
Another day, another egregious Trump transgression to which he responds in typical style by muddying the waters and hurling the same accusation back. On his scenario he’s not corrupt for using US Foreign policy for personal political ends to attack and undermine his leading opponent Joe Biden. Instead Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, is guilty … Read more
None of the leading Democratic candidates look exactly on sparkling form astrologically speaking for the 2020 election Below is a pull together of previous posts. Stacey Abrams, former Congresswoman in Georgia and first African-American to deliver a response to the State of the Union address earlier this year is being talked of as a possible … Read more