Rosie Millard
The Independent
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Leonardo da Vinci made art for the world. Sadly, the art snobs of Paris don't see it that way
This autumn, Paris has become “Leonardo Central”; the French capital assuming pole position to mark celebrations for the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci. → Read More
How did an isolated, left-wing city in the northeast become a global high-tech pioneer?
Sneering southerners (and the occasional person from West Yorkshire) used to have a deeply irritating way of categorising Hull as “the place that time forgot.” Stepping out of Hull’s main (and only) station into the blistering East Riding wind, they would clock newspaper sellers hawking the local paper, doughty cafes selling buns, and bargain clothes stores alongside the lack → Read More
Believe it or not, Idris Elba, you can have new experiences well beyond your 50s
Millennials, or anyone over the age of 45, do not listen to this counsel of despair. Otherwise you might well be saying mournfully ‘Able was I before I saw Elba’ → Read More
What does it take to be a successful woman in leadership? Seeing other women make it before you
Slow handclaps all round. Having been “ordered” by the government two years ago to appoint women in at least a third of their boardroom positions, a recent review of the UK’s 350 biggest firms by Hampton-Alexander found that five of them had failed to appoint a single woman. → Read More
Prince Andrew's thoughts on Brexit are the musings of a tired, middle-aged man – and the more compelling for that
I admit to having something of a soft spot for Prince Andrew. Neither as unpredictable as his older brother, nor as predictably beige as his younger, by all accounts he seems to have dealt with divorce, parenting and living in the Royal bubble as best as can be managed. → Read More
Prince Andrew's thoughts on Brexit are the musings of a tired, middle-aged man – and the more compelling for that
I admit to having something of a soft spot for Prince Andrew. Neither as unpredictable as his older brother, nor as predictably beige as his younger, by all accounts he seems to have dealt with divorce, parenting and living in the Royal bubble as best as can be managed. → Read More
For the Grease generation, Olivia Newton-John's illness is hard to accept
I know it so well. Every frame of it. Even now, if I chance upon a screening of it on TV, or call up key moments on YouTube, the magic still remains. → Read More
I’m adopting the James Dyson way of life by only sending six emails a day
I have been thinking about the inventor Sir James Dyson ever since the revelation that he only gets, and sends, six emails a day. Six! How on earth does he do it? Well, apparently Sir James (current worth around £8bn) bans staff from emailing internal memos and gives new recruits notebooks and pencils for meetings. He also encourages talking in the office. Yes, chat. “We’re creating things,… → Read More
Award ceremonies would be boring without the token political speech – the Bafta TV Awards are no exception
Doesn’t Bafta know that British actors don’t do obedience? Did none of their execs see Benedict Cumberbatch’s magnificent rant about the shame of the refugee crisis at the end of his globally streamed performance as Hamlet? Or know that when a British director is told to be quiet, he or she will very likely do precisely the opposite? It’s what makes our television and film industry so… → Read More
The custody case of DaddyOFive reveals the dark side of YouTube fame
It’s difficult to know how to approach the cautionary tale of Mike Martin, also known as DaddyOFive, a character from Maryland who posts “wildly popular” videos of his parenting “pranks” with his quintet of kids on YouTube. → Read More
Rude guests, broken wi-fi and a lot of floor scrubbing – this is what it's really like to be an Airbnb host
The secretary general of the UN World Tourism Organisation (I know, me neither) has news for hotels. Shut up about Airbnb: the sharing economy is here to stay. The hotel industry “should realise that it is not going to go away,” → Read More
The solitude of marathon running provides the perfect antidote to the modern world
I’m sitting in Parliament Square amid a crowd of thousands as the elite and wheelchair factions of the London Marathon 2017 flash past. Everyone is cheering; I’m beside a lady from Cats Protection who has handed out foam paws to my children to wave. A mass choir of volunteers is singing gospel, wonderfully slow. It is sunny. Somewhere, a band is playing the theme from Chariots of Fire. → Read More
The discovery of 'life' on Saturn just proves how alone we are in this vast universe
The good news is that life probably exists on another mass in the solar system. The bad news? It’s a God-awful small affair, as someone once said. → Read More
There's one good thing about Brexit that has been overlooked – the end of the dreaded foreign exchange trip
One good thing about Brexit is that it might mean the end of the dreaded French Exchange week, which is without question the most torturous moment of a teenager’s life. My own long week consisted chiefly of hiding from a bickering family in a bedroom in Vanves (an utterly unremarkable Parisian suburb), watching the town clock strike the quarter hour, and crying. → Read More
The Wetherspoon’s Order and Pay app is the saviour of the British pub
My children had a favourite bedtime story called Lazy Tok. The tale features the titular heroine, who is fantastically greedy as well as idle. She sits beside a tree and orders a magical walking basket to deliver food to her, because she is far too lazy to get it for herself. The basket complies by regularly stealing food from shoppers at the local market. This system works for a while but then… → Read More
Celebrities, I beg you: don't turn the Oscars into an elite political circus
Let’s pray it’s just about the frocks. Because we love the Oscars for the frocks, don’t we? From Gwyneth’s diaphanous t-shirt to Bjork’s swan via Cher’s spider web. And that’s just a sample of past triumphs. → Read More
Oxbridge still has a problem with elitism – as the student trying to burn money in front of a homeless man shows
They just never learn, do they? Initiates at the Bullingdon Club in Oxford apparently hilariously burned £50 notes in front of homeless people in order to get into the society and now one Ronald Coyne has followed suit in Cambridge, setting fire to a £20 note in front of unemployed crane worker Ryan Davies, who was sleeping rough and had asked Coyne, dressed in white tie and tails, for some… → Read More
Hey Beyonce, as a mum of four let me tell you this isn't what pregnancy looks like
Hey, pregnant ladies out there! Stop reading What to Expect When You are Expecting, and looking at that gestation chart for the thousandth time this week. What you want to be looking at is Beyonce’s Instagram feed. → Read More
Desperate Southern rail commuters stuck on freezing stations have saved WHSmith
It’s an ill wind which blows nobody any good... Hence it is rather cheering that tube strikes and the current horror that is Southern rail have accounted, in part, to the success of our old friend the newsagent and bookseller → Read More
Carrie Fisher could have been defined by her Hollywood background. Instead, she was defined only by herself
I watched Star Wars again last night. The original, 1977 one. At the end, Carrie Fisher gets equal billing with her co-stars, and in an action sci-fi movie. That didn’t happen much to women on screen at that time. It still doesn’t. Nobody knew how big Star Wars was going to be; Fisher herself referred to working on George Lucas’s franchise debut as a “goofy little three-month hangout with… → Read More