Helen Glover and Team GB team-mate Polly Swann finish second in women’s coxless pair semi-final… with Greece emerging from nowhere to take first spot ahead of Thursday’s final in Tokyo By Kishan Vaghela For Mailonline Published: 00:15 EDT, 28 July 2021 | Updated: 02:58 EDT, 28 July 2021 Helen Glover and Polly Swann will compete … Read more
Olympic rower Helen Glover trained for Tokyo 2020 while her babies were napping on just TWO HOURS of sleep per night By Lydia Spencer-elliott For Mailonline Published: 05:27 EDT, 23 July 2021 | Updated: 05:27 EDT, 23 July 2021 She’s heading to Tokyo 2020 for her third Olympics as part of Team GB. And Helen … Read more
Women’s single sculls (W1x) Victoria Thornley (Club: Leander Club / Hometown: Wrexham) Coach: Paul Reedy Women’s pair (W2-) Helen Glover (Marlow RC / Penzance) Polly Swann (Univ. of Edinburgh & Leander Club / Edinburgh) Coach: Hamish Burrell Lightweight women’s double sculls (LW2x) Emily Craig (University of London BC / Mark Cross) Imogen Grant (Cambridge Univ. … Read more
What has happened to the liberal-minded Boris Johnson I used to know, the free- spirited enemy of overbearing government? Where exactly has the brilliant, clear-thinking journalist gone to, the man who used effortlessly to skewer bossy or fuzzy-minded politicians, and put them firmly in their place? He wasn’t to be found yesterday at Prime Minister’s … Read more
What has happened to the liberal-minded Boris Johnson I used to know, the free- spirited enemy of overbearing government? Where exactly has the brilliant, clear-thinking journalist gone to, the man who used effortlessly to skewer bossy or fuzzy-minded politicians, and put them firmly in their place? He wasn’t to be found yesterday at Prime Minister’s … Read more
Sacre bleu! The Frenchman who repeatedly criticised the British Government for wanting to take back control of our borders is now blithely proposing that France should do the same thing. Does Michel Barnier register une petite contradiction? Might he even admit to being a teeny weeny bit of a hypocrite? ‘Non’ and ‘absolument non’ are … Read more
All his life Boris Johnson has cut corners, ignored rules and flouted convention, both in his private and his professional life. So far as I know, he has never been guilty of wickedness but has done plenty of silly things and a few reprehensible ones. In every instance he has survived, if not unscathed then … Read more
All his life Boris Johnson has cut corners, ignored rules and flouted convention, both in his private and his professional life. So far as I know, he has never been guilty of wickedness but has done plenty of silly things and a few reprehensible ones. In every instance he has survived, if not unscathed then … Read more
Over the past quarter of a century a dangerous new belief has sprung up in political circles. It is that ex-prime ministers have every right to enrich themselves as much as possible by exploiting the contacts and know-how they acquired in office. Tony Blair has done this on an epic scale. He has made tens … Read more
You can take Boris Johnson out of his newspaper column and plonk him in No 10, but you can’t take the controversialist newspaper columnist out of Boris Johnson. The man who offended many people a few years ago by writing in the Daily Telegraph that Muslim women in burkas ‘look like letterboxes’ has done it … Read more