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Daily Mirror
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Noel Edmonds' New Zealand life and love of cosmic energy is unveiled in ITV show
Having left showbusiness, Noel Edmonds is enjoying a new life in New Zealand, where he focuses on energy, healing crystals and being in tune with the cosmos... Ever wondered what happened to Noel Edmonds? For decades, he used to rule the radio waves and Saturday night telly, then suddenly he disappeared. Cut to Noel in his swimming trunks standing under an icy cold shower saying gratitudes, with a few sheep wandering around in the background. In 2018, Noel turned his back on showbusiness and moved 11,500 miles away with his wife Liz to New Zealand. 'I think I might have found my paradise,' he says in Noel Edmonds' Kiwi Adventure, which starts tonight (June 20) on ITV at 9pm. The couple have spent the last two years building a business in the quiet town of Ngatimoti. River Haven, with the strapline 'Positively Together', boats a vineyard, coffee cart, general store, and a restaurant and pub, called The Bugger Inn. On their 800 acres of land, Noel also wants to create a wellness sanctuary and even New Zealand's first energy garden, whatever that is. 'I am John Wayne, I am Clint Eastwood!' says Noel, delighted to be holding a power tool. He's clearly still a showman. This three-parter follows the challenges, from being accepted by the locals, to bad weather, the absence of tourists and everyone else going bust. But most fascinating is the insight into Noel's complete dedication to energy and healing. Lying under a quartz crystal healing bed, the 76-year-old talks about his 'light bulb moment' about his health - 'We are all body energy systems'. He dedicates his good health to six things - nutrition and good food, good 'structured' water, pulsed electro magnetism, tranquil exercise, vibe (his term for 'visualisation of body energy;) and meditation. Throw in some cold showers and ice baths (we see him with his shirt off A LOT), saunas and a hyperbaric oxygen chamber three times a week and 'I am rocking,' he says. There is much talk of the matrix and universal energy. The couple even has a big clock permanently set to the specific time Noel and Liz met - she was his make up artist on Deal or No Deal. Noel says: 'Liz was sent to me. She is an Earth angel. The sustenance of her energy is my life blood. You will never pull us apart because we are one. I believe it's a gift from the cosmos. This was the time of my life.' Noel also opens up about the negative press he has received, saying: 'I do actually care what people think about me. Criticism does hurt. I'm hugely sensitive.' And he explains that he left Britain because the country changed so much. He says: 'I missed a quieter country. We're not trees, so we can move.' Noel Edmonds' Kiwi Adventure is airing on ITV tonight at 9pm. There's plenty more on TV tonight - here's the best of the rest.. ALISON HAMMOND'S BIG WEEKEND, BBC1, 8.30pm In the last of this brilliant series, which will surely be commissioned for a second round, Alison spends the weekend with world champion boxer Tony Bellew. Visiting his house in Southport, Alison learns that Tony and his wife, Rachael, are in the middle of big house renovations. He opens up about life after retirement, sharing his struggles with boredom, missing the thrill of fights and the toll his boxing career has taken on his health. Tony reveals that due to the number of punches he's taken to the head, his memory has been affected, and he fears that there may be more health implications to come. He also shows Alison the ropes and puts her through her paces in the ring, revealing that he owes his life to his boxing gym. After taking on Tony on the pads, Alison and Tony head to Goodison Park, not only the home of Tony's beloved football team but the site where he won his world championship title. NOT GOING OUT, BBC1, 9pm For old school Friday night comedy, with a relentless stream of gags, surely this wins every time. Lee Mack, a veteran of the one-liner, plays Lee, who constantly finds himself in ridiculous, farcical situations, causing his wife Lucy (Sally Bretton) to spend the entire episode rolling her eyes. In this instalment (Mack's favourite episode), Lee brings a battered box back from the tip, with no idea what is in it. 'When I was a kid, going through the bins was like flicking through the Argos catalogue,' says Lee as he rips the box open. But gets a shock when he opens it in front of Lucy and finds what looks like a dead body, but actually turns out to be a robotic sex doll. 'It can't be human, the face looks like it's silicon,' says Lucy. 'Have you not seen Love Island?' quips Lee. What follows is the usual caper as Lee starts to realise what he's actually dealing with. EMMERDALE, ITV1, 7.30pm After a restless night, Robert bumps into Victoria outside Keepers. He clearly wants to avoid opening up to her about his time in prison. After she finally sits him down in Keepers for a chat, Vic's left worried that Robert still thinks he can win Aaron back. After Charity makes clear that she's definitely accompanying Sarah to her cancer operation, Sarah eventually expresses her gratitude. Paddy enlists Bob's help as he tries to get Bear to open up about what's burdening him. CORONATION STREET, ITV1, 8pm Debbie breaks the news to Ronnie and Leanne that she needs to cancel the awards ceremony as there's a flood at the hotel, but Leanne offers to host it at Speed Daal. Todd finds Theo in the living room repeatedly snapping the elastic band on his wrist. Millie tells them that living with her mum is stressing her out, but when Theo suggests she stays with them a bit longer, will Todd agree? Dee-Dee and James clash over Laila.
Spectator
2 days ago
- Politics
- Spectator
What else could Israel do?
Over the past few days British readers have been able to enjoy a number of hot takes on the situation in the Middle East. First, there have been all the politicians, such as the Scottish First Minister John Swinney, who have called for our government to step in and 'de-escalate' the conflict between Israel and Iran. But even leaving aside whether the mullahs in Tehran can be swayed by Britain or Scotland, 'de-escalation' is the only surefire way to ensure that they continue to pursue a nuclear capability. Elsewhere, the BBC has been playing a blinder. When the conflict began, it decided that its audience would be well served by having the celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall give his thoughts on the matter. At the weekend HFW (as he's known in the Middle East) treated BBC1 viewers to his opinion, too, that 'de-escalation' is the priority and that, to this end, the British government must stop selling arms to Israel. Meanwhile, one of the BBC's own correspondents highlighted the worries of 'those who argue that Israel is violating international law by launching an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation'. I'm not sure what the definition of 'provoked' might be if it doesn't include the Revolutionary Islamic government using the terrorist groups it backs in a seven-front war on you for the past couple of years. Perhaps BBC staff would regard themselves as having been somewhat 'provoked' if they'd been attacked by Hamas, then by Hezbollah, then by the Houthis, then by the Iranian government and so on and so on. Perhaps, then, it's worth going back to first principles. The stated view of the British, American and all European governments is that Iran should never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. The stated view of the International Atomic Energy Agency is that Iran has been enriching uranium to levels required only to develop them. At Fordow and elsewhere, the Iranians have spent decades building facilities deep underground in order to avoid those facilities being bombed from the air. Which is definitely the sort of thing that a government would do if it was not lying and had nothing to hide. During this same period the regime has continued to state its ambition of wiping Israel off the map, calling for the destruction of the 'little Satan' (Israel) and then the 'great Satan' (America). It's unclear if the Iranian government has come up with a 'Satan' category into which Swinney's fiefdom might fall. But I think that we can safely conclude from all Tehran's statements that they consider Britain as a whole very much on the 'Satan' side of the ledger. Indeed, if you want to read accounts of how the UK actually runs the world and is the malevolently scheming power behind the USA and everyone else, you need look no further than Iranian state media. As a side note, it might also be observed that the regime has been sending hit squads to take out opponents in Britain and America. As well as operating in cells within the UK, Iranian agents have been found trying to kill critics in Brooklyn; President Donald Trump's former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo; and his former national security adviser, John Bolton. The Iranians have proved masters at outwitting the international community, and since Israel is their stated first target it was inevitable that the Israeli government could not be as sanguine as, say, the Scottish one over the question of exactly when Iran would develop the levels of enrichment necessary for a deliverable nuke. Anybody who really wants peace should have spent recent years working harder to stop the Iranian regime in its tracks. But in the final analysis what were all these other governments ever going to do about Iran's race to the bomb? The Iranians long ago worked out that they could play for time, not least because they work within a different chronological framework from the rest of us. If you believe that history is to be judged by when the hidden Imam reappears and heralds the end times, you might easily take the view that western governments come and go. As indeed they do. So all the ayatollahs ever needed was to deceive, develop and wait. If Israeli pilots had not bombed the Iranian nuclear project, who else might have done it? The RAF? The French? The Germans? After all these years and all these talks, the only country that ended up taking action was the one with the most skin in the game: the one that the Ayatollah Khamenei and his predecessors have always said they want to annihilate. The world's sole Jewish state takes the threat of its annihilation seriously. Among the few things that can unite the Israeli left, right and centre is the conviction that life in their country will be made impossible – if not ended immediately – once Iran has the bomb. So they acted. In these circumstances, I'm not sure what calls for 'de-escalation' actually mean, other than being a way for irrelevant people to try to prove their relevance. But anyone interested in peace in the Middle East – and the wider world – would do well to wish for something rather different: a swift and intense escalation to finish off the Iranian nuclear project once and for all. That way, a roomful of the country's negotiators won't be able to continue running rings round whichever second-rate muppets govern western countries in the years to come. There's a low-resolution viewpoint in the West that everyone in the world has the luxury of living as we do. But not all people have the good fortune to be in Fife or Inverness. And of course, at times in our own past we didn't enjoy the luxuries of peace either. Perhaps we could recall those times and remember that at our own moments of greatest peril, nothing short of total victory was desirable for us. And nothing short of total victory should be desirable for our allies either.
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
TODAY'S TV WITH SARA WALLIS: Long Lost Family helps a man who was left outside toilet block as baby
In another emotional instalment, two people who are foundlings, tell Davina and Nicky their stories and hope to trace family Every single story from Long Lost Family could be turned into a daytime sobathon movie in its own right. Pretty much every episode leaves viewers weeping into their wine, and this show is the perfect example of a cast-iron format that nails it every time. Davina McCall is walking along a coastline in a coat we all want to buy immediately. She tells us the sad story of someone searching for their relative. Cut to said person's kitchen and Davina has news. Pause. She produces a photo. Maybe even a letter. Everyone is in floods of tears, and that's before the reunion even happens. Kleenex anyone? Elsewhere, Nicky Campbell is providing a shoulder to cry on, while someone spits into a test tube. The spin-off series, Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace (tonight June 18, ITV, 9pm) focuses on foundlings, people left as babies, often in the most extraordinary places and in the first hours or days of life. We've heard about babies left in cardboard boxes, on doorsteps, at churches, in hospital car parks, and in one case a London phone box and even under a hedge. In tonight's emotional episode, Simon Prothero tells how he was found as a newborn in the summer of 1966 in the outside toilet block of a children's home in Neath, Wales. Simon, who was adopted and grew up 10 miles away, says: 'I don't know where I was born, when I was born, what the circumstances were. I don't know who my mother is.' As the team cracks into action, it's especially sad as we learn that Simon's adoptive parents and his wife Helen have died, but a DNA search connects to a large family from North Wales. Watch out for the moment Simon discovers his birth mother is alive and in her 80s, though she's not yet ready for contact. In another story, Lisa Dyke tells how she was discovered as a newborn in May 1969, just a few hours old, outside a health clinic in Christchurch, Dorset. She'd been put into another baby's pram. She says: 'Why was I left in another child's pram? Who left me? I just want to know the truth.' Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace is airing on ITV tonight at 9pm. There's plenty more on TV tonight - here's the best of the rest.. RACE ACROSS THE WORLD, BBC1, 9pm It's been emotional, as five intrepid pairs have taken on the 14,000km race of a lifetime, from the Great Wall of China to the southern tip of India. In the end, mother and son Caroline and Tom took first place in a hard-fought win. Six months later, the contestants meet for the first time in this reunion episode, sharing their greatest highs and agonising lows. The teams reminisce about being forced out of their comfort zones and traversing the two most populated countries on earth. For former married couple, Yin and Gaz, it's a chance to learn who has won the race. Brothers Brian and Melvyn look back at how the race enabled them to make up for lost time, while sisters Elizabeth and Letitia tell how the adventure changed them. Teenage couple Fin and Sioned, who were catapulted into the deep end for their first backpacking experience together, share their future plans. An intimate insight with behind-the-scenes insights and unseen moments. 'I wish we were starting it all again,' says Caroline. THE BUCCANEERS, APPLE TV+ For anyone not familiar with 'The Buccaneers', they are a group of fun-loving young American girls, who exploded into the tightly corseted London of the 1870s, setting hearts racing. Now, the Buccaneers are no longer the invaders - England is their home. In fact, they're practically running the place. Nan (Kristine Froseth) is the Duchess of Tintagel, the most influential woman in the country. Conchita (Alisha Boe) is Lady Brightlingsea, heroine to a wave of young American heiresses. And Jinny (Imogen Waterhouse) is on every front page, wanted for the kidnapping of her unborn child. All of the girls have been forced to grow up and now have to fight to be heard, as they wrestle with romance, lust, jealousy, births and deaths. Last time we got a taste of England. This time we're in for a veritable feast. Also starring Christina Hendricks as Nan's mum Patti, this is an addictive culture-clash historical romp. EMMERDALE, ITV1, 7.30pm Getting increasingly frustrated with his motorbike, Bear snaps and threatens Kammy. Paddy sees this from a distance and puts a stop to it. Paddy and Mandy are dumbfounded when Bear later acts as if nothing has happened. Bear becomes irritated by their questioning and heads away upstairs, leaving Paddy and Mandy to fear that things are getting worse. Vinny continues to give Kammy the cold shoulder. Vanessa tries to get through to Tracy, but Tracy's not interested in her excuses. EASTENDERS, BBC1, 7.30pm Kat doesn't feel any better following her conversation with Alfie and feels that he isn't being completely honest with her. The drinks start flowing at Elaine's divorce party. As the night gets steadily messier, Elaine shocks Linda by declaring that the Prosecco is on the house all night. Later, a tipsy Elaine offers to book Priya a singles cruise, saying she can pay her back later. Linda is then horrified to see £5k leave the business account and confronts Elaine. CORONATION STREET, ITV1, 8pm Glenda and Sean hand out leaflets advertising the Rovers' Drag Night. Todd suggests to Theo they should go. When Debbie admits to Bernie that she finds it hard being in the same room as Ronnie, Bernie suggests they head to her hotel. Dee-Dee opens a letter stating that Laila is due for her vaccinations but when Michael tells her that James is in Leeds, she realises that she'll have to take Laila herself. Kevin gets ready to leave for his chemo session.
Irish Independent
6 days ago
- Politics
- Irish Independent
Letters: Declan Lynch summed up the sheer thrill of finally getting to watch British TV shows
Living in a rural location, the only way for us to receive those channels at that time was through the TV deflector system, an analogue forerunner of sorts to the modern dodgy box. A supplier positioned a mast on top of the Slieve Bloom Mountains, which received the BBC's signal from Northern Ireland and transmitted it to homes in the area equipped with the requisite aerial and set-top box. In my mind, I can still hear the heavy clunk of the box's manual dial whenever you switched between BBC1, BBC2, UTV and Channel 4. The arrival of these extra channels in addition to RTÉ One and RTÉ2 opened our household up to a whole new world of not only entertainment, but, more importantly, information. It is no exaggeration to equate its impact with that of moving from a black and white to a colour TV set. The picture quality wasn't perfect, but that was a minor inconvenience, all things considered. Programmes such as Panorama and Tomorrow's World brought the gravity, whereas the levity could be found in the long build-up to kick-off on FA Cup final day; catching some of TV-am in the mornings as I ate my bowl of Frosties before heading off to school; or, indeed, on the occasional sick day from school, the sheer novelty of watching Henry Kelly's Going for Gold from the comfort of the sofa at lunchtime. Happy days. Enda McEvoy, Mountmellick, Co Laois Einstein would hate the violence in Gaza Madam — Eilis O'Hanlon suggests Albert Einstein, as a founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), would be denied co-operation or the chance to visit Trinity College Dublin under the terms of the new dispensation regarding Israeli companies and institutions. But the picture regarding Einstein is much more complicated. Einstein was indeed one of the founders of the HUJ. He served on its board of governors and campaigned for its funding. But he was not a member of staff. Further, he was not 'proudly Zionist' in the manner Ms O'Hanlon suggests. He was against the founding of a Jewish state or an Arab state to replace the British Mandate for Palestine. Rather, he was associated with Brit Shalom, a small group of Jewish intellectuals who argued for a binational state in Palestine and were against partition. More broadly, Einstein was a peace activist and an advocate of global federalism and international law. He would be horrified by the slaughter in Gaza. He would, in all likelihood, be denied entry to the state of Israel. Conor McCarthy, Monkstown, Co Dublin It's Israeli policy to forge academic ties Madam — Eilis O'Hanlon is correct in pointing out the apparent inconsistency in TCD's cancellation of its ties with Israel and its continuing connections with academic bodies in some other dubious states. However, it must be borne in mind that, from the very beginning, Israeli society was a European population moving, unwanted, into an Asian country. Every part of that society was encouraged to foster the deepest possible relations with their European counterparts. This motivation was particularly strong in academia, where the country's brightest minds worked to create strong bonds of scientific friendship with foreign institutions. This was never a normal academic relationship like that between Irish and other foreign institutions. It was a part of Israeli state policy. Anthony Hanrahan, Renvyle, Co Galway Why doesn't Trinity cut ties with Russia? Madam — Eilis O'Hanlon is to be lauded for calling out Trinity College Dublin for cutting its links with Israeli academics and students. Cutting such links serves no purpose other than to build barriers between people. While TCD has a Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, I don't recall any moves to cut off either Russian academics or students from the college. Considering Russia has been slaughtering many more people than Israel — and doing it on a grand scale on this very continent — one would imagine that what is sauce for the Israeli goose should be sauce for the Russian gander. Gerard Murphy, Kilkenny Road, Carlow Thanks for letting us share views on Gaza Madam — It is good to see the Sunday Independent giving space to readers' views on what is now a tragic, humanitarian, man-made disaster in Gaza. Israel's government has shown no limits in what it is doing there and in the West Bank. At the same time, let us not forget the brutal attack on Israel by Hamas in October 2023. The response from Israel has been extreme. In Europe, political leaders discuss the two-state solution; it has been discussed, forgotten and discussed again for over 30 years. That solution now seems obliterated. Mary Sullivan, College Road, Cork Carna protests were not about housing Madam — Regarding Naoise Dolan's column last week, the US administration is entitled to take policy decisions regarding illegal and legal immigrants. Regarding housing immigrants in Carna, the issue wasn't about housing. It related to altering the character of an Irish-speaking community already short of services. The same protest would occur should it be proposed to move 80 people from Wexford or any other county to the area. PJ Kelly, Carraroe, Co Galway Programme makers did not distort texts Madam — As the writer and producer of the documentary series From that Small Island — The Story of the Irish, I wish to take issue with some of the claims made by Eilis O'Hanlon in her review (People & Culture today; online earlier last week). Ms O'Hanlon is entitled to her opinion. What she is not entitled to do is accuse the programme makers of deliberately falsifying or distorting texts. She talks at length about our use of a quotation from St Patrick's Confession, a fifth-century text written in Latin by Saint Patrick, which we show on a screen and is voiced by an actor. 'Ego Patricius, peccator rusticicus … My name is Patrick… so I am first of all a simple country person, a refugee, and unlearned….' She writes: 'Where did that word 'refugee' come from? I looked up a number of translations of Confessio, and not a single one used the word 'refugee' or anything remotely like it. At a guess, the relevant Latin phrase in the original Confessio must be 'contemptiblis sum apud plurimos', which is generally translated as 'most contemptible to many' or 'despised by most'. In deciding, on extremely dubious etymological grounds, to render that as 'refugee', the programme-makers were undoubtedly making a political statement.' The implication is that we deliberately made up or changed the translation for our own nefarious purposes. We sourced the exact quote used in the programme from the Royal Irish Academy's website on the Confessio, which gives the original text in Latin as well as translations. A Google search would bring you to paragraph 12 in the English translation: '...so I am first of all a simple country person, a refugee, and unlearned'. This translation is the most authoritative and most recent English translation of Patrick's own words. Many different translations exist of the same text, particularly in regard to one as well disseminated as this. Earlier translations — for example, that by Professor Philip Freeman in his book, The World of St Patrick, use the word 'exile' to translate the Latin word 'profuga'. One of the synonyms for 'exile' is 'refugee'. Ms O'Hanlon's 'guess' about the relevant Latin quotation is incorrect. The proper reference is 'Unde ego primo rusticus, profuga; indoctus scilicet, qui nescio in posterum prouidere'. The relevant word here is 'profuga/profugus', which translates as 'exile/refugee'. I'm not quite sure why she finds the word 'refugee' in relation to Saint Patrick so triggering. It is common knowledge that he was Romano-British in origin. She accuses programme makers of having a political agenda: 'Sneakily pushing such superficial arguments with licence fee payers' money is why public service broadcasting is no longer trusted as objective by many viewers. It also makes no sense. To imply that people with concerns about mass migration should just pipe down because their distant ancestors came from abroad is as absurd as suggesting that Irish people 8,000 years from now should be bound by 21st-century geopolitical trends.' We imply no such thing, as anyone who takes the time to watch the series will attest. Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Writer and producer, 'From that Small Island' Think 'tractor snail' and slow right down Madam — I am a dairy farmer and I would just like to suggest the phrase 'tractor snail' as something to print in people's minds to save lives. This phrase reflects the true reality of the vast difference in the speed of a car compared with an agricultural tractor. When you see a tractor in the distance, you should immediately slow down in your car, whether it is on a major or minor road, to prevent an accident or collision that can cause death or serious injury. Please think 'tractor snail' and slow down. Michael Flynn, Rathgormack, Co Waterford I'm from a family of two, but we were big Madam — According to an article in last Sunday's paper, the days of large families have gone. I was interested in this, as I come from a big family myself. There were only two of us, but we were huge. Noel Kelly, Doonbeg, Co Clare Trust in the BBC will never be recovered Madam — I largely agree with Declan Lynch that the BBC offered us brilliance; the plays, documentaries, sport and the full entertainment day in, day out for adults and children. But that was then. In February, the BBC apologised and admitted 'serious flaws' over the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, when it emerged it was narrated by the son of a Hamas official. Where once there was objectivity and impartiality, now the director general had to apologise for 'the significant and serious damage done to the corporation'. Recently in Dublin, Gerry Adams was successful in his defamation case against the broadcaster. I doubt the trust placed in the BBC will ever be recovered fully. Ena Keye, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 Transport abroad put ours to shame Madam — I am in total agreement with Brendan Langley (Letters, June 8). I have travelled quite a bit and lived overseas and I marvelled at how well things worked, from health services to housing to public transport. I often asked myself if our politicians ever went anywhere or saw anything that made them ask: 'Could we do that at home?' We have a great country with great people; it's a pity our politicians, with a few notable exceptions, let the side down. Paul Mullan, Navan, Co Meath Jail overcrowding was predictable Madam — It has been reported that the head of the Irish Prison Service is concerned at the level of prison overcrowding, with its attendant dangers for staff and prisoners. How has this grim scenario come to pass, given government have been aware of rapidly rising population levels for the past 20 years and have not got round to building any new prison spaces? It says it all that the last prison opened (other than an extension to Limerick Women's Prison) was Cloverhill in 1999, while in the interim both St Patrick's Institution and Shanganagh have been closed. Michael Flynn, Bayside, Dublin 13 Brolly's hatchet job on O'Rourke unfair Madam — As an Armagh man, from just across the Blackwater River, I'll admit I've no great love for Tyrone GAA ('Tyrone have no plan for the modern game', June 8). But even I can't stand idly by while Joe Brolly launches a demolition job on Malachy O'Rourke in these very pages. Joe casts Malachy as some sort of managerial medievalist, all blanket defence and no imagination, then crowns himself with glory by reminding us that the U20 manager Paul Devlin once held him to 1-4. Only Joe could slip in a humblebrag mid-execution. Malachy O'Rourke is a decent man and a proven manager. He deserves time, not theatrics. If Tyrone people ever tire of Malachy, they'll be spoilt for choice — I've no doubt Joe would happily step in as his successor, clipboard in one hand and column deadline in the other. Enda Cullen, Tullysaran, Co Armagh Policing toilets is just not workable Madam — E Bolger worries that 'one man' with a gender recognition certificate might make toilets or changing rooms mixed-sex (Letters, June 8). On a practical level, the Gender Recognition Act has no effect on these services. If your correspondent believes men are abusing this system, the solution would require not just repealing the act, but posting security at every toilet to demand ID or birth certs of every person trying to enter. That simply isn't workable and, as such, the bureaucratic consequences of the act are irrelevant to these examples. The alternative is to mind one's own business and leave people alone to use the toilet in peace, as we have done without any adverse effect since 2015. Just wash your hands please. Bernie Linnane, Dromahair, Co Leitrim Trump is a felon, so stop him travelling Madam — With Donald Trump proscribing people from many countries, stating many are criminals or terrorists, surely it follows that as a convicted felon, Trump should be banned in a similar manner from entering many countries? George Coe, Gowran, Co Kilkenny US has the facility to remove Trump Madam — There is a facility in the US constitution — if an American president proves himself or herself unfit for that position, they can be removed by legal means. Surely the time has come to invoke this. How bad does Trump have to be before Congress decides to remove him? Susan Bevan, Dublin 8 A little joke for the day that's in it Madam — Father's Day reminds me of a quip from Tommy Cooper, along the following lines: 'My father was a famous magician, you'll all know his name... it escapes me for now.'
Scotsman
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Thanyia Moore returns to Edinburgh Festival
Award-winning comedian Thanyia Moore returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time since 2022 – the year she was forced to pull out of her run and found herself in a hospital waiting room instead of on stage. She didn't expect that room to become the birthplace of her most personal show to date. In that moment, she felt embarrassed. Ashamed. Like a failure. She had lost the baby – and it felt like she had lost everything. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... But Thanyia is not someone who sits in sadness for long. Out of pain came a spark of humour. Out of loss, came August. August is a brand-new hour of bold, funny, and fiercely honest comedy that tells the story of a miscarriage, the surreal absurdity of performing at the Fringe days later, and the impossible pressures on women to carry on, smile, and not talk about any of it. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad What started as a show about the silent expectations placed on women in the entertainment industry has become something much bigger: a raw, warm, laugh-out-loud journey through grief, strength, and survival. Thanyia opens up about the wild kindness of Scottish nurses who treated her like family. She shares the four very different reactions to ectopic pregnancies she witnessed in a London hospital ward. She dissects the instinct to carry on as if nothing happened—and the cost of pretending to be okay. Thanyia Moore At its heart, August is a love letter to those who've suffered in silence. It's a show for anyone who's experienced loss and still managed to find laughter in the cracks. With Thanyia's signature charisma and razor-sharp comedy, August is that rare thing: a show that makes you howl with laughter and leaves you thinking long after the lights go down. Because if, even for a second, she can make someone forget their sorrow and smile—then she's done what she came to do. Thanyia Moore is an award-winning comedian, actor, writer and presenter, known for her fiercely commanding stage presence and magnetic wit. Winner of the national Funny Women Award in 2018, her TV credits include Mock the Week(BBC), Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC), Celebrity Mastermind(BBC1), Cats Does Countdown (C4) and many more. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad As an actress, Thanyia has featured in Alma's Not Normal (BBC2), Queenie (C4), The Duchess (Netflix), and EastEnders(BBC1), and is fast becoming one of the UK's most exciting voices across stage and screen. Pleasance Courtyard - Upstairs: 30th July - 24th August: 5.40pm.
