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Rebekah Vardy has reflected on her turbulent upbringing and the ‘bad choices’ she made before finding her ‘happy ever after’ with third husband Jamie Vardy. The mother-of-five has become a household name following her marriage to the Leicester City footballer, with separate appearance on TV shows Dancing On Ice and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me … Read more
The date everything changed is entrenched in my memory – June 23, 2016, the day Britain voted for Brexit. Before that moment I was a professor of British politics who loved his job, enjoyed spending time with his colleagues and looked forward to life in Britain’s universities, which are among the best in the world. … Read more
Freedom to travel where you want is a fundamental democratic right. But in recent days it feels as though anyone who wants to book a holiday abroad ever again is either a weird Covid denier, a sociopath or a vaccine sceptic. The country is desperate for some hope and optimism. Nothing symbolises that better than … Read more
The rapid rollout of the vaccination programme across the UK means a decisive corner has been turned in the battle against Covid. A decisive corner is about to be turned for the economy too, with enormous amounts of pent-up financial energy waiting to be released, like a coiled spring. With 13 million of the most … Read more
Never has the thought of an ‘all-inclusive’ stay in a hotel taken on such sinister undertones. For £1,750 per person, you get ten nights in an airport Holiday Inn, Travelodge, Premier Inn or such like, where meals will be left outside your room on decontaminated trays and where you can’t open any of the windows … Read more
Kedleston Hall is a Georgian jewel a few miles north of Derby built to rival Chatsworth. Its 18th-century Palladian facade and neoclassical architecture and parkland are just as impressive and it is one of the National Trust’s most popular visitor sites. It was always the wish of its former owner Lord Curzon, a Viceroy of … Read more
Donald Trump is so angry at being thrown off Twitter that he writes out insults in the hope allies will post them – and had seen deposing Liz Cheney as key to his political hold over the GOP Trump strategized from Mar-a-Lago about punishing Liz Cheney in advance of vote on her leadership vote She … Read more
Back in 1959, on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties, I was posted to Germany as part of my National Service and quickly found myself a new niche. In those days, the Forces radio station played an endless diet of Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee — both wonderful singers, but their music was the sort … Read more
Don’t panic. This is not doomsday. The sight of government testers going door-to-door in protective clothing, in search of the new Covid variants, might look like a scene from a horror movie, but there’s no cause for real alarm. Coronavirus mutations such as the so-called South African variant, which have emerged in recent weeks, are … Read more
Anti-lockdown demos in the Netherlands this week have generated many shocking images. But there is one that may yet become iconic. During a protest against the imposition of a nationwide 9pm curfew in Eindhoven last Sunday, a police truck turned its water cannon on a young woman who was hurled against a concrete wall so … Read more