For days Boris Johnson has been warning that a ‘second wave’ is about to hit Britain. I don’t blame him for the second wave of coronavirus that led him to slow down the easing of Covid lockdown measures. But I do hold him responsible for the second wave of Boris cronies handed peerages yesterday, including … Read more
Can you possibly imagine Margaret Thatcher ever having had to reassure her audience that she was ‘not a Communist’? The Iron Lady, after all, made her name by standing up to Communism wherever she encountered it, whether in the Kremlin or the hard Left British trade unions whose leaders she crushed. Yet Boris Johnson, in … Read more
Of the many outraged voices amid the Black Lives Matter protests, few have been more prominent or persistent than The Guardian newspaper. As statues are torn down and long-established companies take to their corporate knees in apology, the paper and its columnists have been vociferous in calling on Britain and its institutions to acknowledge and … Read more
Top Boy actor Ashley Walters broke down on Sunday evening as he recalled being stabbed by racist thugs while furiously addressing claims that he has not been vocal enough following the brutal death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Racial tensions and rioting have escalated across the United States since footage emerged of a handcuffed Floyd … Read more
BULLETPROOF’s Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters “had to fight” for the opportunity to play police rather than criminals. The pair currently star in the second series of Bulletproof and spoke to Wonderland about playing more positive roles on television. 3 Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters star in Sky One’s BulletproofCredit: ©Sky UK Ltd Noel, 44, … Read more
Lying on her hospital bed, awaiting a 14-hour, life-threatening operation, mother-of-four Sarah Berry began a mental checklist. She’d made after-school arrangements for her three youngest children, given her husband recipes for their favourite pasta sauce and, of course, written her will. All essential undertakings, given there was a 50 per cent chance she would not survive … Read more
‘I couldn’t bear the thought of everyone worrying’: Julie Walters reveals she kept cancer battle secret from her daughter By Daily Mail Published: 00:56 BST, 6 April 2020 | Updated: 01:59 BST, 6 April 2020 She fought an 18-month cancer battle away from the public eye. And Dame Julie Walters has now revealed she kept it … Read more
SIMON WALTERS: Like Arnie, minister Matt Hancock was back and armed with a five-point plan after battling coronavirus in self-isolation By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 2 April 2020 | Updated: 01:04 BST, 3 April 2020 A man who has just got over coronavirus is not the obvious choice to saddle … Read more
At long last, Boris Johnson has finally made the nation sit up and pay attention by ordering the closure of pubs, restaurants and cafes. It is Johnson’s genius for acting as the voice of the nation that enabled him to mobilise millions of Britons of all ages and accents, achieve the seemingly impossible and ‘get … Read more
Boris Johnson did not draw a direct parallel with the threat posed to Britain by coronavirus and that of the Blitz in 1940. But at his Downing Street press conference yesterday he struck the dark, serious tone of a man putting the nation on a war footing. And he was addressing people already coming to … Read more