Melanie McDonagh

Melanie McDonagh follows in Pamela Anderson’s footsteps, finding that there’s a crop for every hair type

Melanie McDonagh · 3-min read This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966.

A million here, a million there…soon you’re talking real numbers. And a million people in a single year is pretty well what we got in 2023, when the net migration figure was 903,000 – so the overall figure (not taking account of people leaving) was getting on for a million. The figures for last year were edging towards three quarters of a million … net. That is why Sir Keir Starmer has been on the stump today to announce a crackdown on “every area of the immigration system”, a “clean break” from the “broken measures” of the past.

· 5-min read A million here, a million there…soon you're talking real numbers.

· 6-min read So, London is to lose 12,000 civil servants, and this time, it's the big cheeses.

Well! Emily Maitlis versus Rupert Lowe yesterday was quite the encounter. On the one side, a tweedy, grey-haired bloke of 67 representing Great Yarmouth (not the bit of Norfolk that London grandees frequent), on the other the incarnation of the Metropolitan Elite, formerly of the BBC, Emily M, looking marvellously bronzed.

Well! Emily Maitlis versus Rupert Lowe yesterday was quite the encounter. On the one side, a tweedy, grey-haired bloke of 67 representing Great Yarmouth (not the bit of Norfolk that London grandees frequent), on the other the incarnation of the Metropolitan Elite, formerly of the BBC, Emily M, looking marvellously bronzed.

The only wonder, really, about the awful death of a pedestrian, knocked down in February ago by an e-cyclist, and who died last month, is that there aren’t more tragedies of a similar kind.

· 4-min read The only wonder, really, about the awful death of a pedestrian , knocked down in February ago by an e-cyclist, and who died last month, is that there aren't more tragedies of a similar kind.

After experiencing hormonal hair loss Melanie McDonagh tries a new technology that stimulates hair growth and combats thinning