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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Raising a glass of Chinese brand, bottled Jersey milk to the camera, the Queen’s grandson Peter Phillips claims: ‘This is what I drink.’ Is it really? Come off it, Pete, mate. This is what you drink when an advertising agency pays you to do so. We all know it and …

For all the turbulence of recent months, the enduring pulling power of the monarchy is undiminished – as last night’s glimpse of a future ‘slimmed down’ House of Windsor made very clear. Here were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hosting their first state occasion at Buckingham Palace on behalf …