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Bluestockings. Unshaggables. It’s how Laurence Fox and co put strong women down

C redit, first, where it’s due. As with so many celebrated public nuisances, from David Starkey and Jacob Rees-Mogg to Nigel Farage and the wider...

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For the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, this ‘lefty’ penchant for safer roads is just too pedestrian

G iven the extensive research that connects dangerous driving with alarming personality traits, it is always enlightening to see who speaks up for...

24.09.2023 60

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If only Ed had the balls to cut the podcast bantz and take George Osborne to task

Even for non-attendees, George Osborne’s July wedding lingers in the memory. First, because of the bizarre, orange confetti protest. Second, because...

17.09.2023 10

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If Unilever truly wants ‘a world with more joy’, why is it filling Putin’s war chest?

S o long as you are not Ukrainian, it is difficult to imagine a more caring and sensitive ally than the food, cosmetic and hygiene giant, Unilever....

10.09.2023 100

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How many marks out of 10 does Charles deserve after his first year on the throne?

N ow it’s a year since a glut of articles asking “what kind of king will Charles be?”, maybe it’s not too soon for a first appraisal. Even...

03.09.2023 10

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Nadine Dorries vowed to do her best for her constituents. In resigning, she has succeeded

B efore she was known as “Dosser Dorries”, the now former MP advertised her delight in relocating to “idyllic” Mid Bedfordshire, where she’d...

26.08.2023 6

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Rupert Murdoch has a thing for women aged 66. But what could be in it for them?

D elightful photos of Rupert Murdoch and his latest girlfriend, Elena Zhukova, contribute so much to our understanding of human age-assortative mating...

20.08.2023 60

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Polluters, tax avoiders, misfits: forget Labour’s pals, Tory donors are in a different class

E ven by the party’s ever more debased rhetorical standards, the Tory leadership has surpassed itself with attacks on Labour for accepting donations...

13.08.2023 7

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The Secret Diary of Charlotte Owen, aged 30¼: ‘I’m a Barbie girl, and a baroness.’

F inally!!!! Pink dress? Check. Heels? Check. Hair zhuzhed? Super-check! Not ideal picking up a peerage the same day you’re seeing Barbie but the...

30.07.2023 80

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Coutts’ virtue-signalling plan had one flaw. The bank has no virtue to signal

‘D ear valued Coutts customer, following unhelpful media speculation, we would like to assure you that, in keeping with our reputation as an...

23.07.2023 20

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As wildly inadequate Tory mayoral candidates go, the Susan & Moz act tops the bill

In an LBC studio, Iain Dale has invited the final shortlist for the Conservative party’s mayor of London candidate, Susan Hall and Mozammel...

16.07.2023 5

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Age cannot wither her – and now, for just £495 a month, it won’t wrinkle her

That the launch of a – purportedly – rejuvenating moisturiser is now considered national news is, you have to admit, a kind of progress. Well...

02.07.2023 20

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Why does Starmer want to add yet more peers instead of abolishing the lot of them?

I f only to dodge that special place in hell often said to be reserved for women who don’t help other women, it would be nice to come up with...

25.06.2023 40

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For Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi was shrewd, capable and true to his word. For others, not so much

‘I liked Silvio,” Tony Blair wrote in his autobiography. That was in 2010, when there was possibly some excuse. It was not until 2013 that the...

18.06.2023 30

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Breast is best if you want top marks for your children? You’ve got to be kidding

W as Huw Edwards breastfed? One wouldn’t normally speculate about an eminent BBC newsreader’s infant nutrition, but what with the disclosure that...

11.06.2023 6

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Succession wasn’t about the Murdochs? Surely it’s how they’d like to see themselves

I t was a term of Jerry Hall’s divorce settlement from Rupert Murdoch, according to Vanity Fair , that she couldn’t “give story ideas” to...

04.06.2023 10

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Charles, show us you’re truly a modern king and return the remains of the stolen prince

W hat luck for the king, with the coronation done and years of featureless ruling ahead, that Ethiopia should be offering him another chance to...

28.05.2023 50

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The price of failure: a moat for Johnson, jobs for Osborne and globetrotting for Truss

N ot to deny the appeal of books and podcasts in which successful people talk inspirationally about failure, but a new, quite different school of...

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As Charles is bestowed with mystical powers, so much for a secular coronation

‘G od of love, we raise to you our Queen Consort”: for anyone who has longed to mention Camilla Parker Bowles to the most high but struggled to...

16.04.2023 100

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Harry, Gwyneth... even Wagatha: we can learn so much from ‘media circuses’

After the recent joys of the Boris Johnson interrogation, Donald Trump’s New York indictment could only be, for connoisseurs of extended...

09.04.2023 8

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Why worry about an import ban on hunting trophies when you can bag one at home?

A n alliance that brought together conservationists, African leaders, taxidermists, recreational hunters and the patron saint of upskirters,...

19.03.2023 30

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The wife of ‘Sir Stanley’ couldn’t tolerate his abuse and nor should the rest of us

S ince it’s not often that the domestic violence community enjoys official recognition, the knighthood proposed by Boris Johnson for the breaker of...

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Out with the Sussexes, in with the Parker Bowleses. Revenge is sweet for Charles and Camilla

T he much hoped-for new edition of Spare must be writing itself. “‘Darling boy,’ Pa said. “This is a section 21 notice. You’re being...

05.03.2023 100

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Boris Johnson’s insights are worth £2.5m. Pity we couldn’t have had them while he was PM

It’s what any caring billionaire half longs for, half dreads: the moment his charge takes the first, faltering steps from dependence towards...

26.02.2023 100

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A love of Shakespeare is one reason to accept an honour. What’s everyone else’s excuse?

T he actor Sir Mark Rylance has explained that he accepted a knighthood, overcoming reservations about the honours system, because of King...

19.02.2023 20

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Who’s going to be triggered by Northanger Abbey? It’s hardly Game of Thrones

Greenwich University is warning students to prepare themselves for the ‘toxic friendships’ Jane Austen satirises in her novel

05.02.2023 70

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Forget Andrew Tate – what about the host of misogynists in Labour’s ranks?

The transgender debate seems to offer many proudly progressive men a licence to insult women who disagree with them

28.01.2023 9

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Prince Harry has left the zoo, so why is he being treated like a caged animal?

Accused of trying to destroy the monarchy, he’s merely revealing the appalling conditions they are forced to live under

14.01.2023 10

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John Stonehouse paved the way for today’s sleazy members – only he didn’t get away with it

His rackety life and faked death, as portrayed in a new ITV drama, seems almost quaint compared with the brazenness of MPs today

08.01.2023 30

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John Stonehouse paved the way for today’s sleazy Tory MPs – only he didn’t get away with it

His rackety life and faked death, as portrayed in a new ITV drama, seems almost quaint compared with the brazenness of members of his party today

07.01.2023 30

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Among the Meghan-hating media fraternity, Jeremy Clarkson isn’t even king

Alongside stiff competition from the likes of Brendan O’Neill, Jezza’s invective is little more original than the average incel’s

31.12.2022 10

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