JANET STREET-PORTER: Are Heathrow queues incompetence or part of Boris’s plan to stop us going away?

If you lock people up for over a year one result is guaranteed. They will be desperate to go on holiday. Where? By now, anywhere that’s not their postcode. But preferably somewhere with sun, decent food, a beach, and a free lounger. Somewhere they can enjoy themselves without wearing a face mask. Travelling for pleasure … Read more

JANET STREET-PORTER: Are Heathrow queues incompetence or part of Boris’s plan to stop us going away?

If you lock people up for over a year one result is guaranteed. They will be desperate to go on holiday. Where? By now, anywhere that’s not their postcode. But preferably somewhere with sun, decent food, a beach, and a free lounger. Somewhere they can enjoy themselves without wearing a face mask. Travelling for pleasure … Read more

Judge brands bungling burglars ‘three buffoons with utter incompetence’

Burglars who tried to carry out a Hatton Garden-style heist on an antique shop have been branded ‘three buffoons with utter incompetence’ by a judge. David Newman, 42, Mark Rabjohns, 34, and Peter Fitzharris, 42, broke into clothing shop Cheltenham Tweed Company on January 9.  They then drilled through a dividing wall in the basement … Read more

Judge brands bungling burglars ‘three buffoons with utter incompetence’

Burglars who tried to carry out a Hatton Garden-style heist on an antique shop have been branded ‘three buffoons with utter incompetence’ by a judge. David Newman, 42, Mark Rabjohns, 34, and Peter Fitzharris, 42, broke into clothing shop Cheltenham Tweed Company on January 9.  They then drilled through a dividing wall in the basement … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: The EU are paying the price of their incompetence 

One of the attractive aspects of the Dutch character is an insistence on plain speaking. Even so, it was quite something when, after we voted to leave the EU, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, declared that, as a result, ‘England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically’. Let’s bring things up to … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: The EU are paying the price of their incompetence 

One of the attractive aspects of the Dutch character is an insistence on plain speaking. Even so, it was quite something when, after we voted to leave the EU, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, declared that, as a result, ‘England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically’. Let’s bring things up to … Read more

Baby girl brain-damaged after mid-wife ‘banned for incompetence’ deliver her

Baby girl is left brain-damaged after hospital allowed mid-wife who was ‘banned for incompetence’ to help deliver her A baby girl was left with cerebral palsy after a midwife banned delivered her Barts Health Trust in London admitting legal responsibility for the blunders Sophie Addo, 58, was ‘excluded’ from working in the hospital just days earlier … Read more

Labour leader Keir Starmer attacks ‘confusion and incompetence’ from government over exams fiasco

Keir Starmer today warned plans for children to return to classrooms in September could be at ‘serious risk’ due to the government’s chaotic handling of exam results.  The Labour leader said Downing Street had wasted two weeks which could have been spent preparing for the new school year ‘clearing up a mess of the government’s … Read more

Labour leader Keir Starmer attacks ‘confusion and incompetence’ from government over exams fiasco

Keir Starmer today warned plans for children to return to classrooms in September could be at ‘serious risk’ due to the government’s chaotic handling of exam results.  The Labour leader said Downing Street had wasted two weeks which could have been spent preparing for the new school year ‘clearing up a mess of the government’s … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: Why I fear Boris Johnson’s silence on exam fiasco heaps arrogance upon incompetence 

Where is Boris? We are told he’s camping in Scotland with fiancée Carrie Symonds and baby son Wilfred. It’s hard to imagine him banging in tent pegs, or hunched over a flickering Primus stove. Maybe he’s not really camping and being bitten to death by midges but sheltering in a friend’s house on some pleasant … Read more