‘Meghan Markle is making it all about HER!’ ANDREW PIERCE on Prince Harry’s Invictus Games By Andrew Pierce Published: 21:29 BST, 13 September 2023 | Updated: 21:34 BST, 13 September 2023 She turned up finally yesterday even though the games opened on Saturday and guess what she did, she made a speech. Guess what the … Read more
The need for an open, transparent, and professional relationship between police and the media is stark – we must allow journalists to hold us to account, says College of Policing chief ANDY MARSH By Chief Constable Andy Marsh, College Of Policing Ceo Published: 11:20 BST, 25 March 2023 | Updated: 11:20 BST, 25 March 2023 … Read more
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Matt Hancock’s failures are no laughing matter By Mail on Sunday Comment for the Daily Mail Published: 07:56 BST, 11 October 2020 | Updated: 07:57 BST, 11 October 2020 Once again a leading supporter of imposing stringent rules on the rest of us has been caught not taking his own position … Read more
With every new development from his Californian base camp, with each fresh initiative that finds him strapping on his trusty crampons of wrath to scale new-found peaks of pique, I worry about Harry. I really do. He’s just so furious all the time! Whatever next for our little lost prince, as he negotiates what he … Read more
There is a very old Jewish joke doing the rounds on Twitter. What’s the difference between a pessimist and an optimist? The pessimist says: ‘It can’t get any worse than this.’ The optimist says: ‘Oh yes it can.’ What makes it funny or, rather, deeply unfunny, is that they are both right. For those who … Read more
We have always been a nation of curtain twitchers. But, who’d have thought nearly 200,000 people would report their neighbours for breaking lockdown rules? That’s what a report from the police reveals — that to pass the time when they’re barricaded in their homes, battalions of Britons have turned informer. There’s a word for these … Read more
We all understand why the Government’s daily briefings are necessary – both to give the latest news and to reinforce key public safety messages. However, I am beginning to feel their purpose has got lost. They are becoming little more than a daily Sermon on the Mount, offering scant new information and, worse, often delivering … Read more
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Britain should be proud. Now let’s find a way out of lockdown By Mail on Sunday Comment for the Daily Mail Published: 00:43 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 07:46 BST, 5 April 2020 Our hearts go out to the frontline staff in the NHS who – as we see by … Read more
It’s been like playing a game of Whack-A-Mole,’ the exhausted Government adviser admitted to me. ‘One moment we’re under attack over contact tracing. It’s been like playing a game of Whack-A-Mole,’ the exhausted Government adviser admitted to me. ‘ One moment we’re under attack over contact tracing. Last week was the blackest week of the coronavirus … Read more
Yesterday it was made clear that Boris Johnson‘s Government is going for broke. It is sparing no effort as it battles to stop the coronavirus sending Britain’s hardwon prosperity over a cliff and turning what is now an inevitable recession into a depression of a kind not seen since the 1930s, with large and enduring … Read more
The military are mobilising. Preparing for the deployment of Army units to protect hospitals, supermarkets and other vital facilities. Not from a hostile invading force, or terrorist fanatics. But from the British people, in the event the coronavirus emergency starts to spiral out of control. It sounds like something out of science-fiction film. Or a … Read more
As millions of us know, no relationship is more heartfelt than that between an Englishman and his lawn. ‘Nothing is more pleasant to the eye,’ wrote Francis Bacon in 1625, ‘than green grass kept finely shorn.’ A well-kept garden, Bacon explained, was the ‘greatest refreshment to the spirit of man’ that could possibly be imagined. … Read more
The so-called Youthquake never happened. The army of young voters supposed to sweep Jeremy Corbyn to power was swamped by the sheer common sense of ordinary people determined to honour the result of the referendum. But as I celebrated on Thursday night, one fact was unavoidable: from early morning at the polling station to the … Read more