For years, guessing how rich the Queen is has been a popular – if exasperating – parlour game. On the one hand, she is famously frugal, keeping warm with a £30 electric heater and sticking to for decades the same brand of £7.99 nail varnish. On the other, fabulously wealthy, with a portfolio that spans works … Read more
Don’t panic – Covid-19 injection will still keep you out of hospital even if you fall ill with South African variant, writes PROFESSOR HUGH PENNINGTON By Professor Hugh Pennington For The Daily Mail Published: 22:56 GMT, 7 February 2021 | Updated: 23:06 GMT, 7 February 2021 A vaccine is not an impenetrable barrier in the body … Read more
Pictured: Tobias Ellwood, Chairman of the Defence select committee Few people today have heard of Standard Oil, the giant petrochemical company that a century ago made its founder John Rockefeller wealthier than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and Google billionaires Sergey Brin and Larry Page are today – combined. The secret of its … Read more
Having come a cropper during last week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is set for another bruising encounter with a far more accomplished blonde adversary – his former lover. Phillippa Kaufmann QC, the distinguished human rights barrister, and Starmer QC, a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), could face off at the … Read more
Military medics from the British Army began vaccinating people in Scotland against Covid-19 last week, adding jabs in arms to their arsenal of efforts to save lives and slow down the spread of the coronavirus across the country. As they have for centuries in times of crisis – albeit this time against an invisible enemy … Read more
The truth about the Labour Party and its ferociously radical leader Sir Keir Starmer is so obvious that nobody sees it. This is why the recent revelation that the Blair creature himself was once a Trotskyist came and went without any response at all. Nobody in the media wants to believe it, so they simply … Read more
Two weeks ago, a digger that had been working on a job on the British mainland arrived back in Northern Ireland. Or rather attempted to arrive. Its bodywork was covered in soil, the inspector pointed out. British soil wasn’t allowed into the EU. The driver explained that it was a company digger and was not … Read more
Coronavirus has divided society. A chasm of mutual misunderstanding and resentment has opened up. On one side are people who want to be allowed to make their own judgments about risk, in the light of their own vulnerabilities and those of the people around them. On the other side are people who think their safety … Read more
China’s ambassador to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, recently bade farewell to this country in characteristic style. Dwelling on golden memories of his time here, he recalled his ‘humble part’ in President Xi Jinping’s state visit in 2015 and New Year’s Eve parties on the banks of the Thames. He also mentioned the happy days when he … Read more
Time to consult ye olde crystal ball, shuffle the tarot cards, dig out my trusty drivel diviner to see what 2021 holds for Harry and Meghan and — uh oh! The Sussexes are just over a year into their great finding freedom caper but if events of recent days are anything to go by, we … Read more