Rishi is continuing to dole out largesse like there’s no tomorrow. Yet still it’s not enough for some people. He is pictured above with the Prime Minister on a visit to Teesport yesterday My old mate Ron Todd, who used to run the Transport and General Workers’ Union, would grumble that no matter how good … Read more
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Over the past year we’ve had to learn a baffling new language. If you struggle to tell your pandemics from your pangolins, here is a comprehensive A-Z guide to Covid-19.
Whatever happened to Taking Back Control of our borders? For five years we heard little else from leaders of the Leave campaign. Yet now those self-proclaimed saviours of British sovereignty find themselves in the driving seat, any pretence of pulling up the drawbridge to protect the national interest has dissolved like the froth on a … Read more
With Christmas approaching, I couldn’t help wondering how The Nativity might have turned out if coronavirus had been around back then. The Bible would probably have recorded it something like this… And lo, Caesar Borisius decreed that a mass vaccination for the pestilence which is called Co-Vid should take place among all the citizenry of … Read more
The Government has set up an online careers advice service for the four million people who could find themselves out of work when the furlough scheme expires at the end of this month. Those whose jobs will no longer exist are being encouraged to retrain by filling in a skills questionnaire designed to determine what … Read more
Four suspected illegal immigrants have been detained at Dover, after being found stowed away in the back of a lorry. The men, two Bangladeshis, an Indian and an Egyptian, were taken into custody. The driver, a Romanian, was arrested, pleaded not guilty and was sent for trial. That’s the good news, coming at the end … Read more
Coronavirus has had a catastrophic knock-on effect on the nation’s health, as non-Covid conditions have gone untreated. Vital operations for everything from cancer to heart disease have been postponed and hospital admissions during lockdown are down 43 per cent year-on-year. Such is the concentration on Covid, even chemotherapy sessions have been cancelled. Between March and … Read more
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Johnson? Just after 4pm on Wednesday, Boris’s carefully cultivated reputation as a Churchillian champion of British liberty crumbled like stale Stilton cheese. ‘We will boost the local enforcement capacity of local authorities by introducing Covid-secure marshals to help ensure social distancing in town and city centres, and … Read more
The Black Lives Matter movement is planning to select candidates to contest seats at the next General Election. Makes sense. Judging by that sinister stab-vests-and-balaclavas march through South London recently, BLM already has a paramilitary wing. A political arm is the logical conclusion. It will be called the Taking The Initiative Party, or TTIP for … Read more
Britannia may rule the airwaves once more, but it’s a pity the same can’t be said for the airways. New BBC director-general Tim Davie might have overturned the ludicrous ban on singing traditional patriotic songs at the Proms. Yet what’s the point of belting out Land Of Hope And Glory when the country is still … Read more