Common, Danny Glover, and Bernie Sanders leading line-up of stars and activists celebrating Harry Belafonte’s upcoming 94th birthday By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com Published: 02:50 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 02:50 GMT, 17 February 2021 Common, Danny Glover, and Bernie Sanders are leading a virtual line-up of stars, civil rights leaders, and activists celebrating … Read more
Earlier this week Sir Keir Starmer presented a party political broadcast beside a Union Flag, promising to ‘rebuild our country’. Can you imagine his predecessor as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, wrapping himself in the flag? Only if it were the Palestinian one, or possibly the Irish tricolour, in homage to his long-standing apparent support for … Read more
How quickly the pandemic is rotting the minds of supposedly clever civil servants and ministers. The latest crazy ideas to emanate from Whitehall are contained in a leaked 16-page official document. Mad idea number one: to pay £500 to every person testing positive for Covid-19. Mad (and dangerous) idea number two: to give police access … Read more
A BBC breakfast interview descended into chaos today as Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover attempted to show an ‘easy’ workout with her three young children. The sportswomen, from Marlow, appeared on the programme to showcase some the simple exercises she has been doing during the pandemic while caring for Logan, two, and twins Beau and … Read more
Are we there? Have we finally made it? As I write, there are reports that we are inching towards a final deal with the European Union, and may have even got across the line. British negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier have been photographed disappearing into a locked room in Brussels, where … Read more
Prime ministers can make big mistakes and be forgiven. But sometimes an error is so defining of failure that the public never forgets. John Major was doomed from the moment Britain crashed out of the European exchange rate mechanism – into which he had led the country two years earlier – in September 1992. The … Read more
This week Olympic rower Helen Glover checks into our travel Q&A. She also talks about her favourite hotel, bucket list destination – and more.
These are crucial weeks for Boris Johnson. Crucial for the country too. We are caught up in a perfect storm of a possible No Deal Brexit and an apparently resurgent pandemic. On Brexit, we may be edging towards an agreement which will avert the perils of No Deal. But we’re not there yet, and within … Read more
How easy it is for high-minded rich people to lay down the law for poorer folk. They often haven’t the faintest idea of the effect of their expensive recommendations on ordinary lives. The most recent example comes from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), a quango which advises the Government on measures to tackle climate … Read more
Michael Gove is to the Tory Party what Mikhail Suslov was to the Soviet Communist Party in the 1960s and 1970s. Chief ideologue and brainbox. But whereas Suslov was a hardliner and extreme authoritarian, Mr Gove was, until recently, seen as a social liberal and libertarian. One did not associate him with the expansion of … Read more