The ObserverChelsea WomenInterviewChelsea’s Aggie Beever-Jones: ‘That whole day was an absolute dream’Suzanne WrackBack at Stamford Bridge for Sunday’s game against Manchester United, the 20-year-old relishes memories of scoring there
Few 20-year-olds would confidently banter with Sam Kerr about who will finish the season at Chelsea with more goals. Aggie Beever-Jones found herself doing just that towards the end of last year after the former academy player scored five in five WSL games. Read More...
‘Everybody is welcome here’: Rosita Missoni’s home is full of plants and art collected during her long life. Photograph: Sommariva/Salerni/Living Inside‘Everybody is welcome here’: Rosita Missoni’s home is full of plants and art collected during her long life. Photograph: Sommariva/Salerni/Living InsideThe ObserverInteriorsJust like the prints of her fashion label, the Missoni co-founder’s family home is full of jubilant colour and patternIn Sumirago, a suburb of Varese in Lombardy, where the verdant surrounds sit in the shadow of the famously pastel-tinted Monte Rosa, Rosita Missoni is describing the scene outside her window. Read More...
Biography booksReviewA howl of scholarly frustration at a prime minister out of his depth Boris Johnson has been accused of many, many things over the years. But the parties and the lies, the sleaze and the juicier scandals don’t seem to interest historians Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell much. Their central complaint in this utterly scathing account of his time at No 10 is the more fundamental one that, as they put it, he “never understood how to be prime minister, nor how to govern”; that he didn’t know what he was doing, barely bothered learning, and was so lacking in moral seriousness that even when he tried he couldn’t transcend the limitations of his “base self”. Read More...
