It sounds cuddly but Boris Johnson is stepping into a moral quagmire, writes HENRY MANCE

Is an elephant a person? Most people would give you a straightforward no to that question. But New York’s highest court will soon hear arguments from campaigners that Happy, a 50-year- old female Asian elephant at Bronx Zoo, should be given some of the rights of a legal person. The campaigners don’t think that Happy … Read more

How the Queen is reshaping her life, writes MATTHEW DENNISON

With the announcement of a national lockdown in March 2020, an extraordinary and unexpected opportunity opened up for the Queen and Prince Philip. At last, after more than seven decades of marriage, the Royal husband and wife, then aged 93 and 98 respectively, were able to experience something approaching the shared leisure enjoyed by other … Read more

Daily Mail’s haunting montage of just a fraction of Britain’s Covid victims, writes SARAH VINE 

However tricky the past few months have been, however much I’ve longed to see my family or spend time with friends, whatever difficulties my children may have encountered through missed schooling or isolation, one thing I shall be eternally grateful for is that no one I love appears in this picture. Not my parents, who … Read more

Daily Mail’s haunting montage of just a fraction of Britain’s Covid victims, writes SARAH VINE 

However tricky the past few months have been, however much I’ve longed to see my family or spend time with friends, whatever difficulties my children may have encountered through missed schooling or isolation, one thing I shall be eternally grateful for is that no one I love appears in this picture. Not my parents, who … Read more

Bill and Melinda Gates were seen as perfect couple but couldn’t find happiness, writes TOM LEONARD

For a man who once listed the pros and cons of getting married on a whiteboard before he took the plunge, Bill Gates was probably never going to be the most conventional husband. And that was before the Microsoft founder was named the world’s richest person and those pros and cons started to become just … Read more

Bill and Melinda Gates were seen as perfect couple but couldn’t find happiness, writes TOM LEONARD

For a man who once listed the pros and cons of getting married on a whiteboard before he took the plunge, Bill Gates was probably never going to be the most conventional husband. And that was before the Microsoft founder was named the world’s richest person and those pros and cons started to become just … Read more

Meghan Markle writes a children’s book called ‘The Bench’

Meghan Markle today announced she has written a children’s book called The Bench, which is inspired by Prince Harry and her son Archie and comes illustrated with pictures of a red-headed soldier.  The Duchess of Sussex, 39, said the book was inspired by a poem she had written for Harry on Father’s Day the month after … Read more

Meghan Markle writes a children’s book called ‘The Bench’

Meghan Markle writes a children’s book called ‘The Bench’ about the relationship between fathers and sons that was inspired by a poem she wrote for Harry after Archie was born and has illustrations of a red-headed soldier Duchess of Sussex, 39, said the book – released June 8 – would explore ‘special bond between father … Read more

Convoy of carnage: MAX HASTINGS writes about one of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war 

Since 1815, the island of Malta had been viewed as one of the jewels in Britain’s crown of empire — a vital way-station to the East and a sun-baked fortress that showcased the Royal Navy’s dominance of the Mediterranean. But in the summer of 1942 it was the only surviving British bastion in the central … Read more

Convoy of carnage: MAX HASTINGS writes about one of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war 

Since 1815, the island of Malta had been viewed as one of the jewels in Britain’s crown of empire — a vital way-station to the East and a sun-baked fortress that showcased the Royal Navy’s dominance of the Mediterranean. But in the summer of 1942 it was the only surviving British bastion in the central … Read more