First of all: how are you both? I know no one ever asks, so I thought it best just to check. After all, it must be so hard for you, stuck in Los Angeles in rented accommodation with only Ellen DeGeneres and Beyonce for company. We all know how stressful moving house can be, and … Read more
They move slowly across the landscape, lumbering and flat footed, but tenacious. Their primordial mission is to safeguard the past, then furnish and burnish the future anew. Look at them! Their heads are huge and their brains are perhaps not so huge – but their path is straight and true. They trudge onwards through the … Read more
Yesterday morning we awoke to the usual fusillade of disturbing news in what is the worst crisis this country has experienced since the end of the Second World War. The shortage of personal protection equipment for our courageous medical staff is worsening. The testing fiasco continues, and the Government seems unlikely to meet its self-imposed … Read more
Truscott (pictured) resigned from the Labour Party after he was secretly taped offering to assist in getting amendments on legislation before the Upper House tabled in return for money Shamed lord hunts down Covid spivs… Most politicians need a brass neck to survive in the Westminster jungle. But former Labour energy minister Lord Truscott is … Read more
The Government’s decision to extend the lockdown for a further three weeks has, unsurprisingly, intensified the complaint that ‘shutting down the economy will cost more lives than the coronavirus’ — or, in the words of President Trump, that the ‘cure may be worse than the disease’. The argument, in essence, is this: recessions kill. Intuitively, … Read more
The last time the Countess of Bradford wore a Stewart Parvin creation, it was on the day of her wedding. It was also a very different look from the Parvin ensemble she has been wearing this weekend, though she is equally thrilled with the result. ‘These aren’t any old scrubs. They’re Stewart Parvin scrubs,’ she … Read more
Elton John did it in front of a hedge in his back garden, with two basketballs. Paul McCartney did it in front of some cheapo pine cupboards in his kitchen, no doubt stuffed with tofu burgers and his favourite veggies. Stevie Wonder did it in front of lavishly tasselled curtain tiebacks in his elegantly appointed … Read more
We must give small firms a tax holiday for two years, says DAVID DAVIS By David Davis For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:17 BST, 19 April 2020 | Updated: 08:33 BST, 19 April 2020 Assuming that we have this dreadful virus under control, it is now essential we take the brakes off the economy … Read more
It’s Tuesday evening. I’m wearing a uniform of green T-shirt and black trousers and find myself engaged in a delicate negotiation over a bottle of pinot grigiot. I’m quite familiar with the stuff. In normal times I’m a celebrity agent to a number of high-profile clients, among them Martina Navratilova and Andrew Marr, and it’s … Read more
HARRY COLE: Unholy bust-up over bid to rescue top Jewish paper By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 02:33 BST, 19 April 2020 | Updated: 02:35 BST, 19 April 2020 An almighty barney has broken out over the future of the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper after its owners put it into liquidation and … Read more