I yearned to be a mother. Why did I feel nothing when my daughter was finally born? I had presumed I would love her instantly – but a traumatic birth led to devastating numbness The Guardian - UK · Apr 26
The week in classical: Il Trovatore; Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics; Mad Song; Jerusalem Quartet – review A fearless Agnieszka Rehlis leads a Verdi revival that will leave you rattled, while an electroacoustic extravaganza dives into tech and a viola steals the show in a Shostakovich celebration The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2025
The new game from the Blasphemous devs is like if Commandos was a metroidvania set in a Spanish monastery, and also the Green Beret kept losing his mind You know, videogames. PC Gamer · Jan 31, 2025
La Scala's gala premiere is a Verdi opera with a reputation for bringing bad luck Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala presents Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” for its gala season premiere Saturday for the first time in 59 years, seeking to shake the opera's reputation for bringing bad luck The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2024
Alicia Keys, Elton John … and Joe from the Guardian: why they’ve all played the St Pancras piano Who doesn’t love a station piano? They spread joy to the people – especially when a music megastar drops by to boost their social media The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2023
The week in classical: La forza del destino; Bayerisches Staatsorchester/ Jurowksi; Chouchane Siranossian – review Ignore the fanciful plot and submit to the musical glories of the Royal Opera’s bravura revival of unwieldy Verdi. And to the top of the mountain with Vladimir Jurowski and co The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2023
Drink and drug-driver who killed woman and dogs in Chelsea jailed Laszlo Dancs was doing three times the speed limit when he hit Olivia Riley on the embankment in London The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2023
Drunk driver who killed woman and her three dogs while high on drugs jailed Olivia Riley was described as a ‘beautiful, fun-loving’ woman who had worked as a literary assistant The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023
Drug-driver who killed woman and her dogs in crash jailed for six years Olivia Riley, 41, was walking her pets on the Chelsea embankment in May last year when she was mowed down by an Audi TT driven by Laszlo Dancs. The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023
Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House review: leaves its singers stranded Adele Thomas’s new production tries hard not to be decorous, but doesn’t hang together Evening Standard · Jun 6, 2023
Il trovatore review – cruelty played out with anarchic imagination Adele Thomas’s visually arresting production mixes levity with tragedy, as fervent orchestral play is matched by expressive singing from a fine cast The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2023
The Crown season 5: fact or fiction? What’s real and what’s invented in the new series of the Netflix hit? What Peter Morgan got right, what he might have taken some dramatic licence with... SPOILERS AHEAD Evening Standard · Nov 11, 2022
Did Prince Philip have an affair? The Crown's Penny Knatchbull storyline explained The new season of The Crown, which has just dropped on Netflix, examines the close bond between the late Queen's husband Prince Philip and Penny Knatchbull, the Countess Mountbatten of Burma Daily Mirror · Nov 9, 2022
‘Only Murders in the Building’ review Season 2: Manhattan’s least likely crime-busting trio returns in style Back for a second season — and a second crime to solve — the success of Hulu’s cozy-funny-mournful whodunit “Only Murders in the Building” rests primarily on the shoulders of its three leads, and their blend of ruminative youth (Selena Gomez) and questionable life experience (Martin Short and Steve Martin)… Chicago Tribune · Jun 30, 2022