Jessie Cave was 19 and had just dropped out of university when she signed up to a children's agency to earn a bit of pocket money. The first job she auditioned for – an advert for Nokia – she got. The second – an advert for Veet hair removal cream – she didn't get. And the third, well, the third audition changed her life.
Team Heathrow is understandably delighted with the verdict of the Davies Commission that favours its expansion plan over that of Gatwick, and, for that matter, the so-called Boris Island estuarial airport east of London (long-since discarded by the commission).
Back in 2012, President Barack Obama warned the “unelected” justices of the US Supreme Court against decreeing the Affordable Care Act, his top domestic achievement, unconstitutional and killing it off two years after its passage through Congress. They didn’t, and the White House gave thanks to the bench of nine, unelected or not.
Explore the great outdoors with the little one this summer. We headed out, one-year-old in tow
Is there anything more blissful than having lunch on one’s own? You can choose what you want to eat (in my case, an entire avocado pear). You can select the music. You can read the paper. You can text. You can eat in bed, al fresco, feet up on the table, on the sofa in front of the TV, with fingers, commando style, whatever.
If there was one word to sum up the British psyche what would it be? One suggestion: fudge. We’re brilliant at making the sickly, sweet confection, as any visitor to one of our tourist hotspots can testify. When it comes to fudge, the verb, we also excel, preferring the halfway-house, not making ourselves unpopular, wishing to do right by everybody.
Last night I saw 'Amy', the much-hyped Amy Winehouse documentary. I cannot recommend the film highly enough. It is beautifully crafted, poignant, haunting and, perhaps most importantly, fair. But I must confess to not being able to muster my usual ‘opinionated with a dash of sarcasm’ public persona for the post-film panel discussion. In fact, all I could feel was an overwhelming mixture of sadness and anger.
What I admire about the anti-capitalist left is their ability to present their ideas as somehow "unorthodox" and "anti-mainstream", when they are clearly nothing of the sort. Go to any high street bookstore, and you will find that the politics section consists of little else but the tomes of Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Russell Brand, Owen Jones, Ha-Joon Chang, George Monbiot and the other usual suspects. If that is a "neoliberal hegemony", I dread to think what a left-wing hegemony would look like. Читать дальше...
Across just one week, starting late last month, eight black churches across America became a different shade of black, each of them charred by flames. Their denominations may be different, but perimeters of police tape temporarily unite them. In Georgia a roof makes way for the sky, in North Carolina a piano sits unrecognisable, and in South Carolina a white cross gleams atop a pile of soot. Among all the ruins, the only thing that remain are unanswered questions.
I can’t help but wish the people of Greece well in their desperate and lonely struggle to escape the straitjacket of the IMF/ECB/Juncker prescription of ever-increasing austerity, which threatens to bear out the old medical adage: “The treatment was successful; unfortunately the patient died.”
People spend £250 million a year ringing 'freephone' numbers, according to research
I’ve had a passion for sport all my life - from running, to martial arts, to boxing and playing football. I harnessed my love of sports to build a career in broadcasting, and now, at the age of 32, I’m even taking on my first Ironman in a few weeks time.
1. I haven’t read Howard Davies’s report on airport capacity in the south east of England yet, but it confirms what I already think.
The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden is used to passionate responses from its audiences at curtain calls.
Jamie xx, aka Jamie Smith, wears a lot of musical hats: he is one third of the Mercury Prize-winning group the xx; producer to mega pop stars such as Alicia Keys, Drake and Rihanna; and remixer of artists like Radiohead and Florence + the Machine. He's also a touring DJ and he recently put out his debut solo album, In Colour.