Like all good Italian men, designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana dote on their mammas, and it showed at their catwalk show in Milan Sunday which starred mums with babies and even pregnant models. First up was Italian actress and model Bianca Balti, resplendent in a pink pregnancy dress, her bump proudly leading the way,…
Month: November 2019
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hariri Resigns After Weeks Of Protests
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks during an address to the nation in Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday. The embattled prime minister said he was presenting his resignation after he hit a “dead end” amid nationwide anti-government protests. Updated at 1:10 p.m. ET Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri is submitting his resignation, after nearly two weeks…
Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn warns shadow cabinet dissenters to fall in line
Jeremy Corbyn has told his fractious shadow cabinet “the debate is over” on Brexit, as he seeks to stamp his authority on the general election campaign and shift the focus to social justice and the climate emergency. Speaking to the Guardian in the south-west London seat of Putney, the Labour leader claimed he had instructed…
Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists
Think of a Viking warrior and you probably imagine a fearsome, muscular, bearded man. Well, think again. Using cutting-edge facial recognition technology, British scientists have brought to life the battle-hardened face of a female fighter who lived more than 1,000 years ago. The life-like reconstruction, which challenges long-held assumptions that Viking warrior heroes such as…
Martin Scorsese: is The Irishman director becoming more radical with age?
The Irishman begins with Robert De Niro’s veteran mafia hitman rambling from a wheelchair in an old people’s home – the last, befuddled survivor of a forgotten era. It would be so easy to view Martin Scorsese in a similar light. First there were his cranky-old-man comments about not considering Marvel movies to be “cinema”….
Former police officer praises ‘Gene’ who returned £250k violin
A man who picked up a £250,000 violin on a train needed to be convinced that he would not be arrested before handing it back to its owner at a late-night car park rendezvous, according to the retired detective who led the negotiation. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Musician Stephen Morris was reunited with the…
Mural superiority: the fight over Germany’s cold war art heritage
Its sweeping multicolour panorama set off against a grey ravine of prefab high-rises in the background and rows of beige Trabants parked in front, Josep Renau’s mural in Moscow Square in Erfurt used to have a mission to turn heads and inspire. Made of 70,000 glass mosaic tiles, the Spanish artist’s work shows two gigantic…
Edwin Frank: ‘The best art is often powerfully irrelevant’
Edwin Frank is a poet and the founder and editorial director of the NYRB Classics series, a publisher of old books and new translations. Among the writers on its eclectic list are Eve Babitz, Colette, JG Farrell, Mavis Gallant, Tove Jansson, Olivia Manning, Janet Malcolm, Alexander Pushkin, Elizabeth Taylor, and Stefan Zweig. NYRB Classics celebrates…
Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness
After her mother’s sudden death, Catherine Kelly felt the call of the sea. She was in her 20s and had been working as a geographer in London away from her native Ireland. She spent a year in Dublin with her family, then accepted an academic position on the west coast, near Westport in County Mayo….
Tory candidate wrote people on Benefits Street should be ‘put down’
A Conservative general election candidate in a key marginal seat wrote on social media that she believed people on the reality TV show Benefits Street needed “putting down”. Francesca O’Brien, who was selected last month to stand in the target constituency of Gower, in south Wales, wrote a series of inflammatory comments about the Channel…