STEPHEN GLOVER: We know the risks of Covid-19… so why do ministers still treat us like children?

Are we heading for a second wave of Covid-19 as gruelling as the first? Not according to unidentified government officials quoted in yesterday’s Mail.  During an off-the-record briefing in which comments weren’t attributed to individuals, experts suggested the second wave won’t be nearly as bad as the first. This is not a view openly expressed … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary Matt Hancock feeling the heat in Parliament 

Springy Matt Hancock clicked his brogues… but Mr Speaker simply squinted: HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary feeling the heat in Parliament By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:28 BST, 15 September 2020 | Updated: 01:47 BST, 16 September 2020 Whenever Matt Hancock now comes to the chamber, there is a contest among … Read more

RICHARD KAY: Oh Harry, how we miss the way you were: So often now Prince Harry appears careworn.

Royal photographs seldom say too much, but once in a while they say everything. Yesterday all over the world a picture issued to mark Prince Harry’s 36th birthday was being studied with both affection and fascination. Affection because the image shows Harry, his brother William and sister-in-law Kate with their faces wreathed in joyous smiles, … Read more

RICHARD KAY: Oh Harry, how we miss the way you were: So often now Prince Harry appears careworn.

Royal photographs seldom say too much, but once in a while they say everything. Yesterday all over the world a picture issued to mark Prince Harry’s 36th birthday was being studied with both affection and fascination. Affection because the image shows Harry, his brother William and sister-in-law Kate with their faces wreathed in joyous smiles, … Read more

SUE REID: Britain’s first migrant camp shows the Government is determined to end its ‘soft touch’ 

Day after day, they arrive on Britain’s south coast.  This year, almost 6,500 migrants have made the dangerous journey in small boats across the English Channel.  On Monday, an overloaded dinghy carrying ten such migrants landed in Kent. The occupants, none of whom was wearing a life jacket, leaped out, ran towards a thicket of … Read more

SUE REID: Britain’s first migrant camp shows the Government is determined to end its ‘soft touch’ 

Day after day, they arrive on Britain’s south coast.  This year, almost 6,500 migrants have made the dangerous journey in small boats across the English Channel.  On Monday, an overloaded dinghy carrying ten such migrants landed in Kent. The occupants, none of whom was wearing a life jacket, leaped out, ran towards a thicket of … Read more

Dr MAX PEMBERTON gives his devastating verdict on yet another Covid-19 farce 

When coronavirus first struck Britain, Boris Johnson assured the public that ‘our country remains extremely well prepared’ to cope. Among our national assets, he boasted, was a ‘fantastic testing system’. Even when the virus was at its peak in May, the Prime Minister was still in hyperbolic mode as he promised that the testing regime … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary Matt Hancock feeling the heat in Parliament 

Springy Matt Hancock clicked his brogues… but Mr Speaker simply squinted: HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary feeling the heat in Parliament By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:28 BST, 15 September 2020 | Updated: 22:30 BST, 15 September 2020 Whenever Matt Hancock now comes to the chamber, there is a contest among … Read more