ANNA MIKHAILOVA: MP Jonathan Reynolds who is leading Labour’s charge to keep the £20 Universal Credit uplift spent £39,225 last year on a grace-and-favour flat By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:58 GMT, 24 January 2021 | Updated: 01:59 GMT, 24 January 2021 How piquant that the MP leading Labour’s charge to keep … Read more
The end is nigh. Or rather, the end is apparently nowhere in sight. Last week, the hardcore Lockdown-Deniers began to deploy a new mantra. ‘Your regular reminder that there is no end to lockdowns,’ declaimed their High Priestess, the broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer. ‘There is no exit strategy, no plan to reopen schools & businesses, to … Read more
Alexei Navalny is Vladimir Putin’s most dangerous foe. Yesterday showed why. Tens of thousands of Russians in scores of cities turned out, even in temperatures below -50C, to protest against their rulers’ greed, lies and thuggery. Kremlin spin doctors dismiss the anti-corruption campaigner as a crook, a Western stooge and an extremist. They mock the … Read more
His most famous client was Diana, Princess of Wales. In his books and promotional materials, Mr Pearce claims to have been her Voice & Presence Coach from late 1995 until her death in 1997 Author Stewart Pearce lives in a small jewel box of a flat right on Sloane Square in Central London. This is … Read more
His most famous client was Diana, Princess of Wales. In his books and promotional materials, Mr Pearce claims to have been her Voice & Presence Coach from late 1995 until her death in 1997 Author Stewart Pearce lives in a small jewel box of a flat right on Sloane Square in Central London. This is … Read more
Just imagine, for a moment, what it must be like to be a child in lockdown. Stuck indoors, unable to play with friends and banished from school for weeks and months on end. Now imagine how tough it is for the children from the poorest, most under-privileged homes in society. Ask yourself if you could … Read more
Just imagine, for a moment, what it must be like to be a child in lockdown. Stuck indoors, unable to play with friends and banished from school for weeks and months on end. Now imagine how tough it is for the children from the poorest, most under-privileged homes in society. Ask yourself if you could … Read more
How quickly the pandemic is rotting the minds of supposedly clever civil servants and ministers. The latest crazy ideas to emanate from Whitehall are contained in a leaked 16-page official document. Mad idea number one: to pay £500 to every person testing positive for Covid-19. Mad (and dangerous) idea number two: to give police access … Read more
How quickly the pandemic is rotting the minds of supposedly clever civil servants and ministers. The latest crazy ideas to emanate from Whitehall are contained in a leaked 16-page official document. Mad idea number one: to pay £500 to every person testing positive for Covid-19. Mad (and dangerous) idea number two: to give police access … Read more
The bigger they are the harder they fall may be true of heavyweight boxers. It’s just as true of distinguished figures in public life. And they don’t come much more distinguished than Lord Sumption. He was a Supreme Court judge with more letters after his name than a postman’s sack. He’s won wide praise for … Read more