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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 …

Harry and Meghan have decided to make a living by singing for their supper. They’ve signed up to the top U.S. speaking bureau, the Harry Walker agency, which has ex-presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on its books as well as Meghan’s friend Serena Williams. It has reportedly secured its …

Buckingham Palace has released photos of the Queen holding a ‘virtual’ weekly audience with the Prime Minister.  Her Maj is holed up at Windsor Castle for the duration, and is conducting her official business by telephone.  Glad to see she’s using a proper landline — which looks as if it …

His was perhaps the most stylish royal solution to the handshake ban which prefaced this crisis: a traditional Hindu ‘namaste’, or pressing of the palms with a nod of the head. As we now learn, a ‘namaste’ was not quite enough. The Prince of Wales thus becomes the world’s most …

For decades the Queen has shown a unique ability to divine the mood of the nation. It happened in the aftermath of the Windsor Castle fire when she realised the public willingness to foot the bill to repair a private Royal Family home with taxpayers money was not forthcoming. And it …

Labour has suspended the former head of Britain’s equality watchdog, Trevor Phillips, over accusations of Islamophobia.  Yet Phillips has fought racism all his life, while the party under Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of anti-Semitism and is being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.  The only other party …

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex returned to the UK this week, for a last waltz of official engagements before slipping their bonds as royals and starting a new life in the wild. On Thursday night they clung together under an umbrella outside London’s Mansion House, an enraptured couple dappled …

What a shock it must have been for the Duke of Sussex to learn that his adopted host nation Canada would no longer foot part of the bill for his family’s police protection. How could this be? Harry’s and Meghan’s bestie, PM Justin Trudeau, had welcomed them warmly in December. …

Meghan and Harry’s extraordinary statement sent a shiver down my spine. The language is stilted, cold and legalistic, the sentiments juvenile and angry. ‘The Queen doesn’t own the word Royal,’ they say in this ill-advised intervention – if any advice was taken, which I doubt. It is an expression of …

So that’s clear: it is absolutely unacceptable for anyone with eugenicist views to have a position of the slightest influence within British politics. Last week, a 27-year-old Downing Street adviser, Andrew Sabisky, was forced out when it emerged that six years earlier he had advocated, among other disturbing proposals, various …