Новости за 12.07.2015

In 1960, American novelist Harper Lee wrote her masterpiece, To Kill a Mocking Bird.

If there is one issue on which those right across the political spectrum may agree, it is the need to reward hard-working families. Some might point out that George Osborne has penalised millions of hard-working families by cutting tax credits, although since those are poor families the objection is too pedantic to concern us.

Five months ago, the House of Commons Culture Committee issued an important report into the future of the BBC, seen as the opening salvo in the fight over next year’s charter renewal.

The article “NHS should not pay for religious care, say critics” (5 July) is a rehash of a six-year-old campaign by the National Secular Society.

In 1991, Greta Lee lost her nine-year-old granddaughter to leukaemia. Lee had always been active in raising money for charity, but suddenly she was a grandma on a mission. So when a children’s hospice called Hope House opened a sister home for “life-limited children” in Wales, Lee staged a fundraising gala in her village hall. With the help of her London-based daughter Maggie Paterson – the principal and founder of Pineapple Performing Arts School – Lee’s first show drew a host of stars from stage... Читать дальше...

Television reporters stand in front of the shut doors of banks in Athens and speak as if a few days more of bank closure brings the Greeks that much closer to catastrophe. Media coverage dwells obsessively on the theme that for Greece it is five minutes to midnight, but somehow midnight never comes. Shuttered banks are a striking physical symbol of economic disaster, but even they are not proof that the final dénouement is at hand.

Serve. Ha-hunh. Forehand. Hunh. Backhand. More of a slice that, so no need for the overt exhalation. Overhead smash. Hunh. Played him beautifully round the court, so now just a passing forehand down the line. Aaaand… point. Nice.

In her mid-twenties, petite, raven-haired, unflustered, always dressed in clothes of unimaginable sophistication, Millie can be found five nights a week between the hours of 7pm and midnight behind the reception desk of the Grimaldi Club, recently named "Soho's most fashionable media watering-hole".