DOMINIC LAWSON: Eugenics IS practised in Britain

So that’s clear: it is absolutely unacceptable for anyone with eugenicist views to have a position of the slightest influence within British politics. Last week, a 27-year-old Downing Street adviser, Andrew Sabisky, was forced out when it emerged that six years earlier he had advocated, among other disturbing proposals, various forms of genetic selection based … Read more

ROBERT HARDMAN: Harry and Meghan are being peevish and tin-eared… just who IS advising them? 

Like every Sandhurst cadet, the young Prince Harry had the age-old maxim – variously attributed to Erwin Rommel, the Duke of Wellington and the 6th century BC Chinese general Sun Tzu – drummed in to him throughout his military training: time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted. So how is it that, after all those … Read more

Inspiration VE Day speech by Churchill to be rebroadcast across the country

Britain will mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day with a spectacular three-day programme of events that will mix nostalgia, thanksgiving and sombre remembrance. On May 8, 1945, the nation cheered as Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that after six years of bitter conflict that had claimed millions of lives and demanded massive sacrifices … Read more

Royal biographer ANGELA LEVIN on her fears that Meghan has put a sliver of ice in his heart 

Meghan and Harry’s extraordinary statement sent a shiver down my spine. The language is stilted, cold and legalistic, the sentiments juvenile and angry. ‘The Queen doesn’t own the word Royal,’ they say in this ill-advised intervention – if any advice was taken, which I doubt. It is an expression of childish irritation that insults the … Read more

HARRY COLE: Here comes the girls! Boris Johnson promotes first of his rising star female MPs 

HARRY COLE: Here comes the girls! Boris Johnson promotes first of his rising star female MPs By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:45 GMT, 23 February 2020 | Updated: 00:51 GMT, 23 February 2020 Boris Johnson has promoted the first swathe of rising-star female MPs from the 2019 intake. Fourteen Tories first elected … Read more

DAVID DAVIS: Huawei deal is the most devastating blunder since MI6 hired Philby, Blunt and Burgess 

Allowing the Chinese firm Huawei to provide parts of our new national telecoms network is the worst intelligence decision since MI6’s recruitment of Kim Philby.  In fact, given our future dependence on so-called ‘fifth generation’ or 5G technology, this failure is worse than Philby and his fellow spies, Burgess, Maclean, Cairncross and Blunt, all rolled … Read more

DAN HODGES: Coogan and Dimbleby can weep and wail, but the BBC licence fee MUST be scrapped 

Alan Partridge is taking to the streets.  ‘I would man the barricades to defend the BBC,’ actor Steve Coogan pledged last week, before warning Ministers that ‘they’ll have a fight on their hands if they threaten it’. He won’t be alone. Yesterday BBC royalty, in the shape of veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby, joined the uprising. ‘The … Read more