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When General Sir Mike Jackson had an audience with the Queen, he would ask his staff to request a midday slot. “Because after half an hour or 40 minutes, the Queen would ring a small bell and say, ‘Time for a sherry, I think.’” Just one tiny insight into royal …

There is a once-notable aspect of our culture that has reached a dead end, apparently for reasons of naked cynicism. I refer to the subjects of what are now called by Royal Mail, without humour, our special stamp issues. This absurd programme presents second-rate designs highlighting populist trash in the …

Emma Corrin has described their West End production of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando as a “celebration of queer joy”. The actor, who played Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown, is currently starring as the titular character at the Garrick Theatre, directed by Michael Grandage. Corrin, who identifies as non-binary …

Whatever the other glories of the second Elizabethan age, it included a period in the 1960s and 1970s when British art entered a black hole and stayed there. There were exceptions: Lucian Freud, Henry Moore and David Gentleman, in the visual arts; the odd good feature film, mostly by Lindsay …

It was World Radio Day on Sunday. Not that there was much fanfare. A fleeting mention on Broadcasting House and a documentary, about tiny community radio stations in far flung places, on the World Service. That was about it. This year’s theme was “Radio and Trust”, in recognition of a …

The first ever St Brigid’s Day festival will a see a number of iconic Dublin buildings lit up in beautiful illuminations. The new festival, named after the Celtic goddess, aims to celebrate the achievements of Irish women and will include talks, performances, exhibitions, music and more. Headlining the festival are …

Texts claiming to be from Royal Mail were lighting up my phone screen every other day, asking me to pay an extra fee for a missed delivery. Source link

In amongst all the dark clouds that have gathered over business in the UK … when Covid cases were sky-rocketing, and Royal Mail was in chaos. Source link

And perhaps that is precisely what's behind the latest news from the Royal Mail, the UK's postal service. In one of the biggest changes to its services … Source link

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James has come out of the hat and will be our reading group choice for October. This decades-spanning novel looking into the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 has rapidly become a modern classic. Since its publication in 2014, …