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 …
Read More »RICHARD KAY: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle misjudge the mood
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 …
Read More »Guess which one Labour’s suspended! GUY ADAMS compares Trevor Phillips’ and Jeremy Corbyn’s records
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 …
Read More »JAN MOIR gives her take on Harry and Meghan’s final journey
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 …
Read More »AMANDA PLATELL: Stump up for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s protection? That’s rich!
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. …
Read More »Royal biographer ANGELA LEVIN on her fears that Meghan has put a sliver of ice in his heart
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 …
Read More »DOMINIC LAWSON: Eugenics IS practised in Britain
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 …
Read More »ANDREW PIERCE: Borders Act comes back to bite David Lammy
Amid angry and emotional scenes in the Commons last week, Labour MP David Lammy tabled an emergency question about the deportation of serious criminals back to their homeland of Jamaica. ‘People watching will see the way the Government holds in such disrespect the contribution of West Indian, Caribbean and black …
Read More »So much for still keeping ties to Britain writes RICHARD KAY
No one can truly say they didn’t see this coming. The die, after all, was cast at that historic Sandringham summit when it was announced that Harry and Meghan were forsaking their royal life for a future that may yet prove to be elusive. Even so there was a ruthlessness …
Read More »JANET STREET-PORTER: British people could die from coronavirus complacency
The coronovirus is not going to disappear overnight and there is no chance of a vaccine in the forseeable future. Managing the symptoms might be like experiencing a dose of bad flu or mild pneumonia if you’re fit and healthy, but for the old, vulnerable and the very young it …
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