Book a plum getaway – with The Plum Guide

Book a plum getaway – with The Plum Guide By You Magazine Published: 00:01 GMT, 9 February 2020 | Updated: 11:54 GMT, 10 February 2020 Similar to Airbnb, but each of the homes – and hosts – featured have been vetted to ensure a top-notch stay with seriously affordable options in 12 cities   Peregrine in Milan … Read more

Buying a Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin’s record label Warner Music eyes stock market flotation

Buying a Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin’s record label Warner Music eyes stock market flotation Warner Music recently posted its highest quarterly revenue for sixteen years   Muse, Coldplay and Green Day are among many rock bands signed to Warner  Billionaire owner Len Blavatnik donated £200million to Harvard Medical School By Harry Wise For This Is … Read more

Jenny Offill, Jacqueline Woodson and Emma Jane Unsworth: This week’s best new fiction 

From Jenny Offill’s sublime Weather to a powerful new novel from Jacqueline Woodson and Emma Jane Unsworth’s Adults, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Catherine Taylor and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 8 February 2020 | Updated: 11:24 GMT, 9 February 2020 Weather  Jenny Offill          … Read more

Former speaker John Bercow is alert to pomposity in others but never in himself

Unspeakable John Bercow W&N £20  Rating: The shortest sentence in this autobiography is also the truest. ‘Brevity,’ writes John Bercow, ‘is not my strong suit.’ You can say that again! Unspeakable might have been better titled Unstoppable, as it goes on and on and on, surfing the wave of its own long-windedness. Bercow never uses … Read more

Will there be a Joker in the Oscar pack? Event’s film critic tips tonight’s big winners

Whisper this softly, but we might just be falling out of love with film awards. The television ratings for last weekend’s Bafta awards were the lowest for 12 years, which, given that the coverage was recorded and you could have discovered the winners online some time before they were ‘revealed’ on TV, is perhaps not … Read more

Basil pavlova | Daily Mail Online

Basil pavlova By Aaron Bertelsen Published: 00:59 GMT, 9 February 2020 | Updated: 00:59 GMT, 9 February 2020 SERVES 12 PREP TIME 20 minutes, plus cooling COOK TIME 1 hour This pavlova recipe, from my friend Isabelle Smith, is a wonderful variation on the classic. Basil is a great partner for summer fruit and also … Read more