EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Alan Cumming says we're living in the era of 'rampant lioness'

Andrew O'Hagan, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, says of assembly its patron: 'I don't assume the Queen favored me, the snooping anti-monarchist with the brand new tie, so she merely handed me to her husband, who requested if a novelist wrote books.' 

Reviewing Netflix's royal collection The Crown, for London Overview of Books, Scots novelist O'Hagan, 48, remarks peevishly in regards to the 95-year-old Duke of Edinburgh: 'It's his tragedy, and our comedy, or the reverse, that he received to dwell out his inferiority advanced on the world's stage.' Absolutely it is a trifle harsh from an FRSL?

Alan Cumming joins with Scotland's Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to marketing campaign for the Sure vote in Scotland

Flamboyant Scottish actor Alan Cumming, 51, interviews First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, 46, each pictured, within the homeless people's journal, the Huge Concern, gushing: 'We live within the Nicola Sturgeon period. 

'For me, she is probably the most revered politician in Britain … She is the well-mannered but rampant lioness and we're her fortunate cubs!' 

Cross the bagpipes-sized sick bag.

Do you may have good handwriting and might write about 700 names and titles a day 'with 100 per cent accuracy … in persistently distinctive and delightful handwriting'? If that's the case, Royal Ascot officers may make use of you from the tip of January till mid-June to inscribe 2017 Royal Enclosure badges. Wage: £14,500.

Mariella Frostrup, 54, confounds Dr Johnson's statement that when one is bored with London one is bored with life by moaning in Waitrose Weekend about overcrowded Tube trains and ubiquitous roadworks. She says: 'My favorite pastime is making an attempt to identify a workman at roadworks.' Maybe an replace of Johnson's adage may advise that when a former girlfriend of George Clooney spends her time counting development staff she has little else to do.

Theresa Might shouldn't be an admirer of Delia Smith, saying the cook dinner is simply too exact and makes cooking inaccessible

The Prime Minister Theresa Might shouldn't be an admirer of cookery star Delia Smith, of whom she has stated: 'I can't enable a Delia Smith cook dinner guide in my home! It's all too exact with Delia, and it makes cooking appear so inaccessible.' 

Nothing to do with Delia being a lifelong Labour supporter, certainly?

RE Mrs Might and the row over her £995 leather-based trousers, Margaret Thatcher's prime ministerial consort, Denis, requested who actually wore the trousers at No 10, stated: 'I do … and I wash and iron them, too!'

Jonathan Isaby was delighted to see Honey G, above, booted off the X Issue

As editor of BrexitCentral, Jonathan Isaby campaigns for the EU referendum verdict to be delivered. 

Now he thinks the identical ought to apply in actuality TV, explaining: 'I used to be delighted to see the ludicrous (rapper) Honey G booted off The X Issue. 

'But she was invited again to carry out on Saturday evening's present.' 

The fading X Issue's producers hoped in useless that it could Stay fashionable but it surely was trounced by Strictly Come Dancing.

 

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