ShutdownWhen the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked, and even gold was sold. In a matter of weeks, the world's economy was brought to an

of his reception by other boys (and masters)

examining how she transformed from dancing princess to the Widow of Windsor and became one of Britain's greatest monarchs along the way

is now ten years older

But when messages start arriving from a stranger who knows far more about her past than she knows herself

the three-day week and the 'winter of discontent' which passed most children by

with uncanny accuracy

is ruled by the Party

'Nastily good fun' Metro

'Zoo Quest'

but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets

yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and

with their sights set on careers in journalism and the media - but that wasn't to be