Joey D'Urso

Nov 30, 2024 | thetimes.com | Joey D'Urso |Heather Elliott

After 149 concerts over almost two years, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour ends next weekend. Her performance in Vancouver next Sunday is the final night of the most lucrative tour in history. Has there ever been anything quite like it? Not really. According to Forbes, Swift has grossed $1.93 billion in ticket sales (£1.52 billion), well ahead of her closest rivals Coldplay, whose Music of the Spheres tour runs into next year.

Nov 28, 2024 | thetimes.com | Joey D'Urso

It’s been a great year for football fans, and not just because the men’s England team astonishingly reached the Euros finals in July. More than half of this year’s top sport books have something (or everything) to do with the beautiful game. David Peace’s novel Munichs is a poignant recreation of the 1958 Manchester United tragedy and the modest world of the Busby Babes, while in States of Play Miguel Delaney argues that the sport has become a vehicle for the political agendas of global dictators.

Nov 23, 2024 | thetimes.com | Caroline Wheeler |Joey D'Urso

Key points Nearly two thirds of voters support assisted dying, according to new poll Those who have lost a parent most likely to support policy Seven constituencies do not have a majority for assisted dying Almost three quarters of people say NHS is not in fit state to provide assisted dying service More than 100 MPs expected to register interest to speak in this week’s debate Fears bill could be filibustered Rebecca Wilcox will be sitting in the House of Commons public gallery on Friday to...

Nov 16, 2024 | thetimes.com | Megan Agnew |Joey D'Urso

Where did it all go? Yes, the money. That billion dollars. It is the question being asked this week as the final figures from Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid come in and the financial post mortem begins; strategists and consultants picking over the Democrats’ cash-corpse, discussing exactly how it was spent and how they would have spent it differently.

Nov 16, 2024 | thetimes.com | Megan Agnew |Joey D'Urso

Where did it all go? Yes, the money. That billion dollars. It is the question being asked this week as the final figures from Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid come in and the financial post mortem begins; strategists and consultants picking over the Democrats’ cash-corpse, discussing exactly how it was spent and how they would have spent it differently.