Q: What is your recommended cure for insomnia, Dr Donald? DR DONALD: You’ve asked the right guy. You know what? I have the best insomnia, one of the highestrated insomnias in all the world. Nobody counts sheep like I do. In the space of two minutes, I can count a million, two million sheep. And … Read more
Should over-70s keep self-isolating? Two powerful voices, two opposing views: Yes: It shows Britain cares and is trying to protect us – Esther Rantzen, 79 When it comes to attacking ageism, and defending older people’s rights, I defy anyone to have a record more militant than mine. I can’t understand why the over-70s are complaining … Read more
I’m not sure what was happening nine months back but all around me people seem to be popping out babies. Even the Prime Minister and his fiancee. Well not exactly popping out – many of them are long and complicated births made even more nerve-racking by coronavirus prohibitions – but it certainly feels like a … Read more
HARRY COLE: MPs and journalists asking embarrassing questions about China claim to be victims of suspicious hacking By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:42 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 01:08 BST, 3 May 2020 MPs and journalists who’ve been asking embarrassing questions about China claim to be victims of suspicious hacking. … Read more
At 3pm on May 8, 1945, Winston Churchill broadcast to the British people. The man without whom Hitler might well have triumphed recalled his nation’s long and lonely struggle; then, the gradual accession of great allies. ‘Finally,’ he said, ‘the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.’ Mindful of … Read more
Who is your 11th friend? Last week it emerged Ministers are giving serious consideration to the creation of a ‘bubble’ of ten family members and acquaintances who we will be allowed to associate with as part of the slow easing of lockdown. So think about it for a moment. Not of the ten lucky souls … Read more
COVID-19 is not the greatest crisis in our history. It is not even the greatest public health crisis in our history. But the lockdown is without doubt the greatest interference with personal liberty in our history. It is normal at this point to add ‘in peacetime’. But we can forget that. Even in wartime, we … Read more
For a while it seemed to many of us that the nation just might be on the point of mutiny over the Government’s failure to get a grip on the crisis. Not enough testing. Not enough masks and gowns. Not enough information. Treated as children by a government that either had no strategy for coming … Read more
Back in 2004, in the run-up to the U.S. Presidential election, I was invited to take part in a special edition of the BBC‘s Question Time, live from Miami. Your Uncle Rich managed to cause uproar when I described my fellow panellist, the agitprop, anti-Bush, American film-maker Michael Moore, as ‘the Lord Haw-Haw of the … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: Boris Johnson and the Boffins were back — and the trio had some new material! By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 30 April 2020 The old band was back together. Boris And The Boffins finally reunited yesterday, their month-long absence from the … Read more