- The Telegraph
It will be fun watching Labour getting crushed for a change
The big beasts have gone. The only member of the Cabinet who enjoys a tussle on the BBC’s Today programme and escapes with just flesh wounds and a spring in his step is Michael Gove. The rest have gone or are going and that makes it tough for those of us on the touchline. We are like the parents of pupils at a little school that managed to raise a rugby team and are watching the poor sods being thrashed left, right and centre. We wince as some big brute, who looks far too tall for his age, cuts
- The Telegraph
Sacred Mysteries: For sale: a papyrus once in Ampleforth’s library
An ancient Egyptian papyrus that used to be in the library at Ampleforth Abbey in Yorkshire is up for sale at Forum Auctions in London on May 30 and is expected to fetch perhaps £8,000.
- The Telegraph
Jo Wood interview: The Rolling Stones won’t happen again – It’s not wild enough now
Jo Wood has a sign hanging up in the kitchen: “Glam-ma,” it says. “A glamorous woman with grandchildren who is too young and fabulous to be called Grandma.” It feels appropriate. At 69, the model, entrepreneur and former Mrs Ronnie Wood has 10 grandchildren, to whom she seems devoted – when we speak, a gaggle of grandsons is about to arrive for the weekend – but she also remains much the quintessential rock’n’roll WAG: charming, entertaining and occasionally eccentric company, with long blonde h
