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These senseless lockdown fines will only foster contempt among the public, writes ROSS CLARK By Ross Clark for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 10 January 2021 | Updated: 09:16 GMT, 11 January 2021 We all know we are in the middle of a pandemic, that Covid-19 is spread by human contact, that the new … Read more
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has called out 21 Republican senators who he says have expressed ‘extreme contempt’ for President Trump in private – but have refused to air their grievances in public. Bernstein accused the senators – including the likes of Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, Chuck Grassley and Susan Collins – of a ‘craven silence’ … Read more
A free press is the cornerstone of British society. The freedom to publish, without fear nor favour, and to inform debate on events that affect each and every one of us is absolutely vital. I was disgusted to see over the weekend that this institution, and the values we hold dear as a tolerant and … Read more
Home Secretary Priti Patel is incandescent. ‘They are trying to silence me because I don’t conform to their version of what it is to be an ethnic minority,’ she seethes. ‘They think they have a licence to speak for everybody from an ethnic minority community. ‘That is not the case. It is simply not the … Read more
In my dealings with China over many years, I have learnt one hard fact: they do not play by the same rules as other countries. They play dirty. When I went to Beijing as Transport Minister, I was warned by the Foreign Office not to take my phone or my laptop as it was assumed … Read more
Jeremy Paxman fears the elderly are treated with ‘contempt’ in the UK and calls for us to ‘rework’ our attitudes towards ageing News presenter turns 70 next month and has penned an emotional piece for the over-50s magazine Saga where he is a regular columnist In it he warned that the elderly are being discarded … Read more