Recalling the two younger Princes, the Prince of Wales’s housekeeper Wendy Berry found Edward ‘utterly charming and polite’, but Andrew (pictured) boorish and rude, writes CRAIG BROWN On November 28, 2001, Gyles Brandreth attended a reception at Buckingham Palace for bigwigs in the media. The Queen was telling a small group of guests how Prince … Read more
If Tory voters stay at home, Jeremy Corbyn could snatch victory: JACK DOYLE analyses the lie of the land as the election looms By Jack Doyle for the Daily Mail Published: 01:13 GMT, 10 December 2019 | Updated: 01:19 GMT, 10 December 2019 The mood in Tory high command is generally positive, but there’s a … Read more
Free university tuition fees! Free broadband! Increases galore in social housing! And so to Bristol for our next stop on the Jeremy Corbyn Election Giveaway Tour 2019. While the Prime Minister got elbow-deep in turbot guts while touring marginals oop North, Mr Corbyn preferred to bathe himself in the unguent adoration to be found in … Read more
The date is Sunday, March 22, and a courier is waiting in the cold outside 10 Downing Street. Exactly 100 days since Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister, his Momentum fan club have sent red roses to mark the occasion. For a few minutes, the door stays firmly shut. Inside, Mr Corbyn is closeted with his … Read more
How many names beginning with A can you think of, off the top of your head? Let’s give it a go. Alexa, tell me some names starting with A. Ann, Anne, Annie, Alan, Arthur, Albert, Andrew, Andy, Alec, Alex, Alexander, Alexandra, Anthony, Antonia, Amy, Amelia, Arthur, Aubrey, Audrey, Alice, Alison, Allison. Alf, Alfie, Alfred, Adam, … Read more
The irrepressible Remainer Gina Miller (pictured) is clearly torn over Thursday’s election choices The irrepressible Remainer Gina Miller is clearly torn over Thursday’s election choices. Having successfully taken the Tory government to court twice in the wake of the country’s Brexit vote (first over the triggering of Article 50 for Britain to leave the EU … Read more
This is a tale of two Dominics. Take it from another. The two this one has in mind are Messrs Grieve and Cummings. Dominic Grieve is the former Conservative MP now standing against his old party in Beaconsfield. More significantly, this erstwhile attorney general masterminded, with the assistance of the then Commons Speaker John Bercow, … Read more
Samantha despises the Conservative Party. ‘I hate the Tories,’ the local tea-shop worker tells me. ‘I’ve always voted Labour and my family has always voted Labour.’ So how will she be voting next Thursday, I ask. ‘I’ll be voting Tory,’ she replies. This is Wrexham, one of the pillars of Labour’s vaunted Northern Red Wall. … Read more
A crazy man kills innocent people and within minutes everyone, from Scotland Yard to the BBC, is saying it is Islamist terror. But is this true? Please explain to me, if you can, how the actions of Usman Khan could possibly have advanced any cause. His victims were gentle academic people of the sort who … Read more
Last week, the winner of the annual Turner Prize was announced. Correction: make that ‘winners’ – because the shortlist of four artists requested they share the £40,000 prize rather than have one of them crowned the ultimate victor. Earlier in the year, writer Olivia Laing, the winner of the James Tait Black literary prize, similarly … Read more
‘Islamic State is not a great threat to the UK’ – What Jeremy Corbyn said the day after Jihadi John beheaded a British aid worker By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:20 GMT, 8 December 2019 | Updated: 00:24 GMT, 8 December 2019 Jeremy Corbyn claimed that Islamic State was ‘not a great … Read more
Civil Service Permanent Secretaries are already jockeying for position in anticipation of the departure of Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill (pictured) A brutal leadership race is brewing in Westminster – and not the unsubtle one to replace Jeremy Corbyn. Civil Service Permanent Secretaries are already jockeying for position in anticipation of the departure of Whitehall’s … Read more
What’s this?’ I said. ‘It’s a cold-pressed carrot, ginger and turmeric shot,’ replied my friend. ‘What’s this?’ I said. ‘Protein ball.’ ‘This?’ ‘Mini chia-seed pudding.’ ‘And this?’ ‘Chocolate.’ I regarded it suspiciously. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ I asked. ‘Nothing,’ she said. I waited. I would love to believe that the only thing standing between me … Read more