NHS staffing shortages: This new NHS contract may force me to quit the job I love
I’m not alone in believing that leaving the NHS – by emigrating or seeking a new career – may be the only option
I’m not alone in believing that leaving the NHS – by emigrating or seeking a new career – may be the only option
Last Sunday, Downton Abbey returned for its sixth and final series. I could watch Downton until the hunting dogs came home, and would love Julian Fellowes to carry on churning out episodes and twisting plots around his pen. Since it started in 2010, I have excused Fellowes for introducing modern phrases into 1910s and 1920s aristocratic England, for his killing off of great characters and for the (occasional) wooden acting, because Downton is a comfort blanket of a programme which lulls you into benign forgiveness. Читать дальше...
I'm fed up with TV's lazy stereotyping of Liverpudlians
This being Yom Kippur, today is the last day on which even as bad a Jew as your columnist would affect any pious disregard towards the primal urge for revenge. Jehovah is a vengeful God, as the Old Testament unceasingly reminds us, hence the need to placate the old boy by fasting in atonement today. And if vengefulness is good enough for the Lord, Creator of Mankind, who would dare disdain the same emotion in arguably lesser Lords than He?
According to another claim in Ashcroft's new book, Cameron never learnt to be a sensible, responsible commander
I think it was the journalist Libby Purves who coined the term “virtue signalling”*, and ever since I came across it I've noticed examples everywhere. She gave a rather brilliant description of the archetypal case: a member of the comfortably rich deciding not to give money to the poor, but to comfort himself further with a Twitter rant calling Michael Gove a “vile, reptilian Tory scumbag”, before popping off for a caramel macchiato with some pals from the BBC.
The pledge for was a way for the coalition to ‘seem’ to be nice while being rather nasty
With Downton Abbey returning to our screens last Sunday, there’s been much discussion around the sixth and final series. To celebrate its release, we chat with one of the show's stars Joanne Froggatt (or best known as Anna) about the decades that empowered women in the film industry.
What do people look for when they sign up to dating websites, and what do they look for in prospective partners?
Celebrate with a sweet, decorative treat to feed a crowd. IndyBest blows out the candles
This project could be the "sprat that catches the mackerel"
Ben Carson's remarks aren't just completely ignorant, but also very dangerous
Every Beethoven performance by Murray Perahia is an event, but as he launched into the Piano Concerto No 4 in G major with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink’s direction he had the misfortune to stumble so badly in his opening flourish that he temporarily lost his poise. But not for long: he soon reasserted dominance by the sheer beauty and authority of his playing, with the orchestra enchasing the piano as though it were a rare jewel.
The piano's voice had a bell-like purity - the closing Rondo went at a furious pace
One can say, with some certainty, that Samuel Foote (1720-77) would have relished the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch where a hopping monoped auditions for the role of Tarzan: “I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is – neither have you”. Indeed, you could argue that this Truro-born actor, playwright, theatre-manager, pioneer of “improv” and dangerous alternative comedy, helped to inspire it. Simon Russell Beale is in his tragi-hilarious element here portraying the now-undersung... Читать дальше...
If we don't start tackling male body dysmorphia - especially in the fitness community - then we risk an epidemic
Former ministers could be shouting about their record in government. Instead,we're back to debating tired issues like electoral reform
Jeremy Corbyn on the other hand has never wielded the levers of power in government, and has never done more than put forward ideas
Penned by Isabel Oakeshott of the Sunday Times alongside Lord Ashcroft, Call Me Dave doesn’t quite live up to the hype. Aside from a few embarrassing allegations about Cameron’s rebellious days as a member of Oxford University’s infamous Bullingdon Club, the extracts released from the book so far fail to deliver the promised massacre of his character.
His book illuminates the uncomfortable reality of how millionaires can use donations to try and persuade politicians to give them power and influence
Men may be able to tell how faithful a woman is based on her appearance alone, new research has suggested.
Congratulations to Jon Davis and my other colleagues at King’s College, London, who this week unveil their joint venture with 10 Downing Street: a video history of Margaret Thatcher.
A new contemporary history venture sheds new light on a prime minister who divided opinion like no other
It would be hard to imagine a more distasteful story about a prime minister and a farmyard animal than the one circulating about David Cameron and a dead pig.
It would be hard to imagine a more distasteful story about a prime minister and a farmyard animal than the one circulating about David Cameron and a dead pig. Thanks, it seems, to the apparent indiscretion of some of his former fellow students and current fellow Tory politicians, we now know more than we might like about alleged initiation ceremonies during his time at Oxford. Even if there is no basis to these rumours, it’s not the sort of thing that makes for a jolly anecdote when entertaining, say, the President of Botswana. Читать дальше...