RUTH SUNDERLAND: How I pity the Remainers who have been proved so wrong (and I voted to stay!)

No one enjoys being wrong. Yet some diehards in the Remain camp take the natural human propensity for wanting to be right to the extreme. They are so desperate to be proved correct in their view that Brexit is a disaster, they seize on every negative number with lip-licking relish and trot it out as … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: How I pity the Remainers who have been proved so wrong (and I voted to stay!)

No one enjoys being wrong. Yet some diehards in the Remain camp take the natural human propensity for wanting to be right to the extreme. They are so desperate to be proved correct in their view that Brexit is a disaster, they seize on every negative number with lip-licking relish and trot it out as … Read more

It’s a ‘pity’ Prince Philip remembered for ‘gaffes’ says former Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu

A former Archbishop of York said it is a ‘pity’ the Duke of Edinburgh will be remembered for his gaffes because ‘behind those gaffes was an expectation of a comeback’ – but people were reluctant to provide one. Dr John Sentamu said the duke was always looking for robust debate and for someone to challenge … Read more

Former Archbishop of York says it is a ‘pity’ Prince Philip will be remembered for his ‘gaffes’

A former Archbishop of York said it is a ‘pity’ the Duke of Edinburgh will be remembered for his gaffes because ‘behind those gaffes was an expectation of a comeback’ – but people were reluctant to provide one. Dr John Sentamu said the duke was always looking for robust debate and for someone to challenge … Read more

Pin-sharp satire from a modern-day Dorothy Parker. What a pity it curdles into agitprop…

Exciting Times Rating: Naoise Dolan W&N £14.99 Very few authors are able to write snappy one-liners, which have to be as compact and forceful as poetry, but here’s a young novelist who’s a virtuoso. Her narrator, Ava, is particularly acerbic when talking about an entitled young woman called Victoria. With Exciting Times, her first novel, … Read more