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Some weeks ago I thought it might be helpful to paint a picture in these pages of what this country could look like in a few years’ time. Think Back To The Future if you like.  My imaginary hero was not a mad professor creating a time-travelling DeLorean car, but …

When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were photographed enjoying an impromptu get-together with Edward and Sophie at the weekend, naturally eyebrows were raised.  As a group of nine they were, or appeared to be, breaking the Rule of Six outdoors in Tier 2.  Some felt it was a bad …

Netflix’s latest season of The Crown opens with a warning of ‘scenes of an eating disorder which some viewers may find troubling’. There is no mention of a truth disorder. Did the Royal Family humiliate Mrs Thatcher at Balmoral? No. Did Charles phone Camilla every day after marrying Diana. No. …

When I read about the appalling catalogue of lies that Martin Bashir told in order to secure his Panorama interview with Princess Diana, my first reaction was disbelief. Earl Spencer, the late princess’s brother, revealed to the Mail this week the comprehensive notes he had taken during his meetings with …

Lockdown is a blunt, indiscriminate policy that forces the poorest and most vulnerable people to bear the brunt of the fight against coronavirus. As an infectious diseases epidemiologist, I believe there has to be a better way.  That is why, earlier this month, with two other international scientists, I co-authored …

Donald Trump is not my favourite person. But I couldn’t help feeling a certain grudging admiration for the old dunderhead last week. Asked what he thought of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to interfere in the US presidential election, he just gave a wry smile and said: ‘I …

I don’t know when it first hit me that the world had gone nuts, writes Piers Morgan I don’t know when it first hit me that the world had gone nuts.  It might have been when an American white woman named Rachel Dolezal self-identified as black on national television despite …

Oddly enough, this is not the first Royal book to feature the word ‘Finding’ in its title.  Back in 2011, the Duchess of York published Finding Sarah: A Duchess’s Journey To Find Herself. Dedicated both to ‘Oprah who pulled me out of the darkness’ and to ‘my dearest Andrew who …

So that’s that. We can finally let go of the hope that Harry and Meghan will wake up one morning and decide to return to dear old Blighty to do any kind of actual Royal toil. Sure, Meghan has claimed that the Sussexes ‘will always be Royalty’ but her actions …

Until last week, if you had asked the BBC to nominate the most reviled species on the planet, the answer would have been obvious: middle-aged white men, of course, the necrotic heart of the evil patriarchy (so long, Andrew Neil et al). But not any more, it seems. For Auntie …