Calls for Boris Johnson to visit the flood-hit areas reached a crescendo last night as Britain braced itself for another weekend of torrential rain. He’s being portrayed unfairly as a heartless toff, holed up at Chevening, one of the Government’s official residences, while half the country is under water. The anger and frustration of those … Read more
Much as I love the Queen, it was Lady Bracknell who sprang to mind when I heard the news of yet another royal divorce this week. ‘To lose one daughter-in-law, your Majesty, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.’ Yes, I know. Neither Autumn Phillips (splitting from HM’s grandson, Peter) … Read more
Here we go again. Our so-called European ‘partners’ are already cranking up the rhetoric in advance of talks aimed at agreeing a new post-Brexit trade deal with the EU. French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is warning that we are going to ‘rip each other apart’ during the negotiations. That dismal bureaucrat Michel Barnier insists … Read more
CRAIG BROWN: People in office jobs like to signal the break between work and leisure by dressing down. For me, the same process is at work, only in reverse: I dress up to have fun.
Without warning, the tide of freezing brown water began pouring into Deborah Warfield’s home in the middle of the night, swirling around the furniture she’d been unable to move upstairs and destroying it. As the waters of the swollen River Teme continued to rise remorselessly through the early hours, she waited for help. Eventually, with … Read more
Of all the complex factors behind Caroline Flack’s death, one over-riding fact is clear. Her death must not be blamed on intransigent police and prosecutors who should, her fans claim, have dropped the case out of consideration for her vulnerable mental state. Miss Flack, who took her own life while awaiting prosecution for an assault … Read more
Every year my sister gives me the same birthday present. Sorry, that’s not fair: Nigella gives me a jumper, but each year it is one of a different colour. Actually, I find this rather exciting, because after so many birthdays I am increasingly intrigued as to what shade I will get, marvelling at my sister’s … Read more
Every year my sister gives me the same birthday present. Sorry, that’s not fair: Nigella gives me a jumper, but each year it is one of a different colour. Actually, I find this rather exciting, because after so many birthdays I am increasingly intrigued as to what shade I will get, marvelling at my sister’s … Read more
Amid angry and emotional scenes in the Commons last week, Labour MP David Lammy tabled an emergency question about the deportation of serious criminals back to their homeland of Jamaica. ‘People watching will see the way the Government holds in such disrespect the contribution of West Indian, Caribbean and black people in this country,’ said … Read more
Back in the mid-1980s, we were house-hunting in North London. I wandered into an estate agents in Highgate, said I was looking for a modest family home and asked to see some property details. The chinless Hooray Henry behind the counter asked how much I had to spend. At a push, and provided I mortgaged … Read more
Shortly after Field Marshal Lord Bramall shared his final wishes with his family, his only son Nicolas started tapping out an email. Furious that his father’s life should end without anyone facing justice for the shambolic paedophile investigation that made a misery of this great man’s final years, he wrote to Scotland Yard Commissioner Dame … Read more
The death of Caroline Flack is truly a tragedy. A beautiful, talented, successful young woman who nevertheless felt so worthless and unloved, so scared and hopeless, she decided to take her own life. Someone who, despite the care and support of friends and family — and of the boyfriend she was banned from seeing — … Read more
PATRICK JEPHSON: The future Queen Catherine is such a relief after the cringeworthy spectacle of the runaway Sussexes By Patrick Jephson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:58 GMT, 16 February 2020 | Updated: 01:58 GMT, 16 February 2020 Happy Mum, Happy Baby is a modest, moving, instructive and altogether life-affirming exploration of young motherhood … Read more