What colour do you think his skin will be – lighter or darker?’ I cannot tell you how many times I was asked that question while I was pregnant with my son last year. It came from not only my sisters, who are fully black and darker than I am, but also from my husband … Read more
He didn’t display the same emotional range and his tone was slightly less sombre. But there was something familiar about last Monday’s response from Sir Keir Starmer to the crisis enveloping the Royal Family. ‘The issues that Meghan has raised on race and mental health are really serious,’ the Labour leader said, ‘and it’s a reminder … Read more
SIMON WALTERS on the row that’s really got Boris Johnson rattled: Who helped the PM pay to refurbish his Downing Street flat? By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 10:43 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 11:11 GMT, 13 March 2021 Questions over who helped Boris Johnson pay for the refurbishment of his Downing Street … Read more
For the oldest and most venerable institution in Britain, this has been a truly terrible week. When the news broke that Harry and Meghan had given an interview to Oprah Winfrey, Buckingham Palace insiders must have feared the worst. Few, though, could have imagined quite how ghastly the fallout would be. For days, the House … Read more
Degrading act that defies comprehension: GENERAL LORD DANNATT is left horrified by shocking video of RAF initiation ceremony By General Lord Dannatt For The Daily Mail Published: 23:55 GMT, 12 March 2021 | Updated: 00:44 GMT, 13 March 2021 I was utterly horrified to learn about the most recent incident of sexual misconduct and bullying … Read more
Confession time. I cannot sing like David Bowie nor write plays like Harold Pinter nor poems like Rudyard Kipling. Yet we do have something in common. We have all said no to the offer of a gong. Actually even that isn’t quite true. In my case it was suggested by Alastair Campbell when he was … Read more
The other day I had the joy of meeting our eight-month-old granddaughter for the first time since she was a very new baby indeed. Well, I say it was a joy — and it was certainly a relief to see her and her three-year-old brother after so long — but I’m sorry to report little Etta … Read more
Treble espressos all round, Giovanni! And while you’re at it, best poke a couple of matchsticks under our eyelids lest we find ourselves toppling into a deep and rigid coma. Sir Keir Starmer launched Labour’s local elections campaign yesterday morning and, ye gods, it was a force-five, chateau-bottled boreathon. To think I could been watching … Read more
This week’s column, I absolutely promise, is going to be a Meghan and Harry-free zone. Haven’t we all had quite enough of the Duke and Duchess of Netflix? For the last five days the planet has been marinated in Meghan, then dunked and pickled in an ocean of princely vinegar. Surely their Titanic of trouble … Read more
This has been a crazy week in which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have opened their guns on the Royal Family and the tabloid Press – and received the congratulations of the President of the United States. A week during which in many parts of our country it is deemed inexcusable to question any … Read more