HENRY DEEDES watches the launch of Labour’s local elections campaign

Treble espressos all round, Giovanni! And while you’re at it, best poke a couple of matchsticks under our eyelids lest we find ourselves toppling into a deep and rigid coma. Sir Keir Starmer launched Labour’s local elections campaign yesterday morning and, ye gods, it was a force-five, chateau-bottled boreathon. To think I could been watching … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches Labour leader Keir Starmer in fight mode at PMQs 

Keir Starmer was no longer over a barrel: HENRY DEEDES watches the Labour leader in fight mode at PMQs By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 10 March 2021 | Updated: 00:58 GMT, 11 March 2021 Not often in the Commons do you get both Conservative and Labour benches hootin’ and a … Read more

Lexus delivery driver watches as his car crashes in California

Door smash! Delivery driver stops his runaway Lexus as it rolls into front yard and then prangs it as he reverses out A DoorDash delivery driver parked his Lexus IS300 on a driveway in California  As he walked up the driveway, the car began rolling towards some potted plants The driver stopped the car put … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget speech

To paraphrase an old joke: An Etonian, a Harrovian and a Wykehamist and are sitting in a bar when a woman walks in. The Etonian says: ‘Fetch her a chair.’ The Harrovian fetches it. The Wykehamist sits in it. Winchester alumnus Rishi Sunak didn’t pull off quite such a dastardly move yesterday. No. He was … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget speech

To paraphrase an old joke: An Etonian, a Harrovian and a Wykehamist and are sitting in a bar when a woman walks in. The Etonian says: ‘Fetch her a chair.’ The Harrovian fetches it. The Wykehamist sits in it. Winchester alumnus Rishi Sunak didn’t pull off quite such a dastardly move yesterday. No. He was … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the former Prime Minister’s parliamentary committee appearance 

After prime ministers waddle out of Downing Street for the final time there’s a tendency for their looks to, well, go to pot. Think Gordon Brown’s haunted features or Tony Blair’s stocking-over-the head visage. So when David Cameron appeared before the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy yesterday I was expecting an ungainly mass of … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the former Prime Minister’s parliamentary committee appearance 

After prime ministers waddle out of Downing Street for the final time there’s a tendency for their looks to, well, go to pot. Think Gordon Brown’s haunted features or Tony Blair’s stocking-over-the head visage. So when David Cameron appeared before the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy yesterday I was expecting an ungainly mass of … Read more

Nick Kyrgios’ girlfriend Chiara Passari watches him play doubles at Australian Open

Love all! Tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios’ glamorous girlfriend Chiara Passari watches him play doubles at the Australian Open – shortly after the couple sparked split rumours By Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 08:20 GMT, 14 February 2021 | Updated: 08:23 GMT, 14 February 2021 Nick Kyrgios’ glamorous girlfriend Chiara Passari cheered on … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary at the Downing Street press conference 

Blimey, Del Boy Hancock has struck it lucky again. He’s scored a whole bunch of testing kits off some outfit called Surescreen. A sun lotion firm? Don’t be a plonker, Rodders. Nah, they’re a top-class healthcare firm in Derby. Cushty. And the Health Sec had only gone and scored 20million of the things. Lovely jubbly! … Read more