Markets defy gravity despite soaring Covid rates and anarchy in the US

Markets shot out the blocks this week with the FTSE 100 clocking its best ever start in its 37 year history. The premier index has climbed more than 6 per cent in the first four sessions this year after a rotten 2020 when the market plummeted by 14 per cent – its worst performance since … Read more

BEL MOONEY: Our hysterical leaders risk anarchy and taking us from Tiers

Poor Alice. After falling down a rabbit hole into a bizarre world of contradiction and threat, she was totally confused in Wonderland — and who can blame her? By the time that funny old Caterpillar asked who she was, Alice had stopped believing in anything at all. She told him: ‘I hardly know, Sir, just … Read more

HENRY DEEDES sees a vapour trail of anarchy hanging over Westminster

The morning after Boris Johnson announced he was clawing back another raft of civil liberties, a vapour trail of anarchy hung over Westminster. In Parliament Square, where Extinction Rebellion has been camped out for the past ten days, female protesters removed their brassieres and chained themselves to the New Palace Yard railings.  Those of a … Read more

DOUGLAS MURRAY: Anarchy is breaking out – Where are the brakes on this thing? Does anyone know? 

Today, a rabble of overweight, tattooed thugs hurled insults, cans and bottles at the police. Officers with shields and riot gear scrambled to contain the violence a short walk from the heart of government. This was co-ordinated law-breaking. We are supposed to be in lockdown, remember, confined to our homes while the R-rate hovers close … Read more

UK teeters on brink of anarchy during a national emergency

A policeman grapples with a black suspect on an East London pavement. Instead of rushing to the copper’s aid, passers-by attack him. When a female officer intervenes, she is kicked and punched. After putting the boot in, another man poses theatrically for a selfie, grinning as the policeman struggles on the floor. The incident was … Read more

Britannia is teetering on the brink of anarchy during a national emergency, says Richard Littlejohn

A policeman grapples with a black suspect on an East London pavement. Instead of rushing to the copper’s aid, passers-by attack him. When a female officer intervenes, she is kicked and punched. After putting the boot in, another man poses theatrically for a selfie, grinning as the policeman struggles on the floor. The incident was … Read more

Knife anarchy returns to streets of London as three people are stabbed near Hyde Park

Knife anarchy returns to streets of London as three people are stabbed near Hyde Park and four are arrested by armed police Police gathered outside Marble Arch station after a stabbing outside Hyde Park Footage shows three armed police officers rushing through lanes of traffic The Met Police confirmed three people were stabbed but nobody … Read more

Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter teases plans for a sequel series involving Jax’s son Abel

Nearly six years after Sons of Anarchy rode off into the sunset, series creator Kurt Sutter reveals he has ideas in the works for two more shows. Sutter, 55, has been holding weekly Q&A sessions for fans of Sons of Anarchy, and the spin-off he co-created, Mayans MC, on his social media every Tuesday. When … Read more

From police fortress to anarchy HQ

Built to a fittingly Brutalist design half a century ago as a stronghold detaining IRA terrorists, and later holding the most dangerous jihadists, Paddington Green police station was once Scotland Yard’s answer to Alcatraz. Prisoners described being shut away for interrogation in its 16 subterranean cells, with their two-inch thick doors and sound-proofed walls, as … Read more