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Today marks 200 days since lockdown started. Two hundred days! This is not what we all signed up for. We thought we would be free by now, or at least out on parole. Instead, here we are. Either heading for a lockdown or already in another lockdown, and the mood on the streets is not … Read more
JAN MOIR: It’s no joke – Spitting Image’s new marvels of boneless spite are let down by lame scripts By Jan Moir for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 2 October 2020 | Updated: 22:11 BST, 2 October 2020 Spitting Image, Britbox Rating: You won’t be surprised to hear that the Conservatives come in for … Read more
Boris Johnson has shirked responsibility throughout much of his adult life. This much we know. Whether dealing with wife or mistress, girlfriend or lover, friend or foe, it is clear he is the kind of man who has always done exactly as he pleased. In his churning wake he has left a bitter flotilla of disillusioned … Read more
Muffle the bells, stop all the clocks, put away the silvered robins and the tinsel packs. For Christmas as we know it appears to have been cancelled this year. Not since the 17th century, when Oliver Cromwell stopped Christmas altogether — and Mrs Cromwell kissed him on the forehead, put her feet up and told … Read more
Gary Lineker has invited a refugee to move into his mansion in Barnes, on the lush, south-western fringes of London. Do you know Barnes? It’s doubly desirable, being both leafy and on the river: a slice of prime urbanalia with posh cheese shops and residents such as Gyles Brandreth and Sir Tim Rice — but … Read more
Surely no civilised person could condone the barbaric sentence meted out to Ye Ming Yuen for drug offences in Singapore. The former public schoolboy was given 20 years after being found guilty of selling a small amount of illegal drugs to his friends; an amount that probably would have got him 12 months in a … Read more
Another exciting week in the crazy lives of the exiled Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Honestly, I hope this fabulous soap opera of entitlement and tatty pomp, rippled with a long raspberry of rudery in the direction of the old country, lasts forever and ever. First, their Finding Freedom biography was published and what an … Read more
The inquest into the death of Caroline Flack took place this week, with the coroner ruling that the television star took her own life by suicide. At the centre of it lies the tragedy of a much-loved woman dying too young and too soon, by her own hand. Six months later, her family and friends … Read more
The terrible trial of the terrible death of PC Andrew Harper reaches its terrible conclusion this week. The young policeman was killed after being dragged to his death behind a car while trying to stop the theft of a quad bike. His three snickering teenage killers were cleared by a jury of murder and convicted … Read more
Day three of the extracts and already many of us are royally keen to find freedom from Finding Freedom: the new book that charts the desperate flight of a family of refugees from the ermine-clad clutches of the British monarchy. The suffering of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who have fled from a luxurious … Read more