ALEX BRUMMER: Greensill Capital’s demise is a crisis with past echoes

Crisis with past echoes: Greensill’s operation was not that different to the slicing of sub-prime mortgages, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:16 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 22:44 GMT, 2 March 2021 The collapse into insolvency protection of Australian lender Greensill Capital, which conducts most of its business … Read more

Meghan Markle’s ‘enigmatic’ smile echoes Princess Diana’s Panorama interview

The ‘Sphinx-like’ Duchess of Sussex maintains an ‘enigmatic’ smile as she speaks to Oprah Winfrey in the first trailer for their bombshell interview in echoes of Princess Diana on Panorama, a body language expert has claimed. During the 30-second trailer, Meghan Markle, 36, does not speak but is seen smiling slightly in response to Oprah … Read more

Meghan Markle’s ‘enigmatic’ smile echoes Princess Diana’s Panorama interview

Meghan Markle’s ‘enigmatic’ smile in response to Oprah’s explosive questions echoes Princess Diana’s Panorama interview while her gestures show she’s ‘protective’ of Prince Harry, body language expert claims Trailers for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Oprah interviews were released  Showed Prince Harry and Meghan speaking to the media mogul outside  In the interview Meghan … Read more

DAN HODGES sees alarming echoes of Trump’s America in Britain today

Back in 2018, I stood in a draughty aircraft hangar in Huntingdon, West Virginia, watching Donald Trump address his devoted supporters. It was the final week of the mid-term elections, and he was upbeat. His speech began as a standard brew of US new-dawn optimism, mixed with casual slaps at his Democratic opponents. Then it … Read more

DAN HODGES sees alarming echoes of Trump’s America in Britain today

Back in 2018, I stood in a draughty aircraft hangar in Huntingdon, West Virginia, watching Donald Trump address his devoted supporters. It was the final week of the mid-term elections, and he was upbeat. His speech began as a standard brew of US new-dawn optimism, mixed with casual slaps at his Democratic opponents. Then it … Read more

Rishi Sunak’s Thatcher moment? Chancellor echoes Iron Lady praising ‘the individual and the family’

Rishi Sunak appeared to take inspiration from Margaret Thatcher today as he insisted the role of government was only to facilitate the growth of individuals, families and communities. The Chancellor’s comments as he unveiled his spending review had echoes of a wider Thatcherite vision of the nation, as espoused by the former prime minister in her … Read more

JOHN GRAY: Harsh measures meted out against migrants contain sinister echoes from France’s past

When migrants attempt the hazardous journey by sea from France to Britain, they are not merely seeking a better standard of living. They are fleeing to a country where they will not be exposed to the prejudice and mistreatment – sometimes brutal – that is their daily experience across the Channel. Home Secretary Priti Patel … Read more

JOHN GRAY: Harsh measures meted out against migrants contain sinister echoes from France’s past

When migrants attempt the hazardous journey by sea from France to Britain, they are not merely seeking a better standard of living. They are fleeing to a country where they will not be exposed to the prejudice and mistreatment – sometimes brutal – that is their daily experience across the Channel. Home Secretary Priti Patel … Read more

Tory peer says targeting of Sir Winston Churchill’s statue echoes ‘fascist days of Islamic State’ 

The move to board up the monument of Sir Winston Churchill has been compared by one Tory peer to the ‘fascist days of Islamic State’ in Syria.   Tory Lord Marlesford said the targeting of statues amid fears of a clash between Black Lives Matters activists and far-right groups in the capital gave way to raising the … Read more