Harry Thompson

Watch Andrey Rublev for one set and you’ll see a man at war with himself: racquet bent, curses aimed at no one in particular. Spend five minutes with people who know him off court and they describe a polite, patient, funny guy — a gap between that version and the player who reached World No. … Read more

One misspelled search can drop you into two very different worlds. “April Jones” still surfaces a Welsh true-crime case, while “Apryl Jones” leads to the Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood cast member and Taye Diggs’ ex. A single vowel is the only thing separating a news archive from a celebrity-gossip rabbit hole. Celebrity spelling: Apryl … Read more

Few writers turned physical limitation into boundless literary adventure quite like Robert Louis Stevenson. Born a sickly child in Edinburgh, he forged enduring stories such as Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde while battling lifelong respiratory illness, and this article traces his journey from Scottish law student to global storyteller. … Read more

Few names in pop culture cause as much confusion as Davy Jones. One belongs to a mythological sea devil who haunted sailors for centuries; another is the Pirates of the Caribbean character, a CGI pirate captain voiced by Bill Nighy in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006); a third is the Monkees singer … Read more

Few radio voices have bridged genres as smoothly as Trevor Nelson’s, so it is no surprise his pay packet keeps making headlines. The BBC’s annual disclosure of star salaries has turned Nelson’s earnings into a public talking point, with his 2025/26 band of £330,000-£334,999 landing in the same conversation as his brain-tumour disclosure. Occupation: Radio … Read more

Imagine winning TV’s top comedy panel show week after week, yet decades later your final chapter is fought over in a London courtroom. That’s the arc of Sean Hughes, the Irish comic who died at 51 from cirrhosis, leaving behind a tangled handwritten will that took nearly ten years to settle. Here’s what happened to … Read more

Duncan Bannatyne’s journey from ice cream van to fitness tycoon is one of the most straightforward rags-to-riches stories among the Dragons’ Den panel. He started with a single ice cream van and built a fitness empire worth hundreds of millions, and here is where his wealth stands today compared with the rest of the Den. … Read more