Boris Johnson is splashing out £900,000 of taxpayers’ money giving his official jet a funky makeover, including a spiffing red, white and blue paint job. Still, with £300billion already flushed down the gurgler, what’s another million quid on a few cans of Dulux? The RAF A330 Voyager is being repainted from its original battleship grey to … Read more
The first thought that occurred to me as I saw the crowds queuing to get into shops yesterday morning was: Why aren’t they at work? Some of the bargain hunters jostling outside Nike Town, on London’s Oxford Street, looked as if they’d come straight from a Black Lives Matter demo. Queue jumpers tried to force … Read more
This is how it ends. This is how it always ends. Badly. What did they think was going to happen? By the time the ‘largely peaceful’ Black Lives Matter protest had called it a day, 49 coppers had been injured and one female officer was lying in hospital with cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and … Read more
Back when I was an industrial correspondent in the Seventies and Eighties, we had a word for employees who refused to go to work. It was called a ‘strike’. The unions withdrew their labour and their members didn’t get paid. Most of the time, these strikes were over money, even though Britain was an economic … Read more
London Is Open. How many times did we hear the city’s two-bob chancer of a mayor Sadiq Khan parrot that trite slogan in the wake of the Brexit referendum? He even lit up the London Eye in the colours of the EU flag to proclaim that despite the Leave vote, the city welcomes all-comers and … Read more
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: With depressing predictability, it’s politics as usual again. The temporary ‘we’re all in this together’ truce didn’t last long.
How many people have contracted coronavirus? How many have had it and recovered? The plain fact is that, without the necessary testing kits, no one has the faintest idea. Your guess is as good as mine. Right now, we’re dancing in the dark. But the answer, my friend, may be flowing round the U-bend. Scientists … Read more
The judges of the prestigious Mind How You Go Awards have convened an emergency meeting over police handling of the coronavirus crisis. Since the announcement of the Government lockdown, nominations have been rolling in at an alarming rate. Normally, they meet in December for a leisurely eight-hour lunch to decide the winners of the awards, … Read more
Plans have been drawn up to deploy 20,000 troops to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic. They will be drafted in to guard key sites, including hospitals, pharmacies and supermarkets. Soldiers are being trained to drive oxygen tankers around the country and Army reservists may be called up to join a special ‘Covid support force’. Richard … Read more
Today’s edition of You Couldn’t Make It Up comes courtesy of Islamic State, which has advised jihadists to steer clear of Europe in case they catch coronavirus. ISIS, the terrorist outfit I’ve always called Izal — how appropriate that now sounds — is telling its disciples to ‘stay away from the land of the epidemic’. … Read more