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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...
G iven the extensive research that connects dangerous driving with alarming personality traits, it is always enlightening to see who speaks up for...
Even for non-attendees, George Osborne’s July wedding lingers in the memory. First, because of the bizarre, orange confetti protest. Second, because...
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....
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...
B efore she was known as “Dosser Dorries”, the now former MP advertised her delight in relocating to “idyllic” Mid Bedfordshire, where she’d...
D elightful photos of Rupert Murdoch and his latest girlfriend, Elena Zhukova, contribute so much to our understanding of human age-assortative mating...
E ven by the party’s ever more debased rhetorical standards, the Tory leadership has surpassed itself with attacks on Labour for accepting donations...
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...
‘D ear valued Coutts customer, following unhelpful media speculation, we would like to assure you that, in keeping with our reputation as an...
In an LBC studio, Iain Dale has invited the final shortlist for the Conservative party’s mayor of London candidate, Susan Hall and Mozammel...
That the launch of a – purportedly – rejuvenating moisturiser is now considered national news is, you have to admit, a kind of progress. Well...
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...
‘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...
W as Huw Edwards breastfed? One wouldn’t normally speculate about an eminent BBC newsreader’s infant nutrition, but what with the disclosure that...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
After the recent joys of the Boris Johnson interrogation, Donald Trump’s New York indictment could only be, for connoisseurs of extended...
A n alliance that brought together conservationists, African leaders, taxidermists, recreational hunters and the patron saint of upskirters,...
S ince it’s not often that the domestic violence community enjoys official recognition, the knighthood proposed by Boris Johnson for the breaker of...
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...
It’s what any caring billionaire half longs for, half dreads: the moment his charge takes the first, faltering steps from dependence towards...
T he actor Sir Mark Rylance has explained that he accepted a knighthood, overcoming reservations about the honours system, because of King...
Greenwich University is warning students to prepare themselves for the ‘toxic friendships’ Jane Austen satirises in her novel
The transgender debate seems to offer many proudly progressive men a licence to insult women who disagree with them
Accused of trying to destroy the monarchy, he’s merely revealing the appalling conditions they are forced to live under
His rackety life and faked death, as portrayed in a new ITV drama, seems almost quaint compared with the brazenness of MPs today
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
Alongside stiff competition from the likes of Brendan O’Neill, Jezza’s invective is little more original than the average incel’s