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My day is besieged with infuriating health and safety warnings. If I buy coffee at the station it says on the lid that the ‘Contents May be Hot’. I should jolly well hope so, just as I was rather hoping that the biscuit I have bought ‘may contain nuts’, as its label solemnly informs me. … Read more
Last week, chief Brexit negotiator David Frost made an impassioned defence of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, issuing a rapier challenge to Brussels. In a major lecture he made it clear the UK won’t be bullied by Europe, and how optimistic he is about our future. This is an edited extract… One of this … Read more
This year’s Boat Race is already making waves with the news that singer Ellie Goulding’s husband, Old Etonian art dealer Caspar Jopling (circled in red below), may be rowing as a member of the Oxford crew. Caspar, 28, married Ellie last August. But since then he’s combined studying for an MBA at Oxford University with … Read more
The question is as old as time itself: ‘Has the world gone mad?’ You hear it every other day. The world’s gone mad, some say, when the police investigate someone for doubting whether a man can become a woman. Or vice versa. Others say it’s because we take Twitter seriously. Or because we invite an … Read more
Her words are too heartbreaking to bear. By videolink to a New Zealand court from her Essex home, the mother of murdered backpacker Grace Millane told the psychopath who killed her daughter: ‘You have ripped a hole in my heart.’ Bravely, she went on: ‘The terror and pain she must have experienced at your hands … Read more
Calls for Boris Johnson to visit the flood-hit areas reached a crescendo last night as Britain braced itself for another weekend of torrential rain. He’s being portrayed unfairly as a heartless toff, holed up at Chevening, one of the Government’s official residences, while half the country is under water. The anger and frustration of those … Read more
The awards season is over, which should mean a welcome respite from celebrities lecturing us on our bad attitudes towards the environment, gender politics, sexual harassment, #MeToo and #MooToo — the oppression of defenceless cows for their milk, as highlighted by Joaquin Phoenix in his Oscar acceptance speech. Have I skimmed, have I missed something? … Read more
At a post-Brexit party the other night, full of friends and acquaintances from my distant past as a political journalist, a woman bowled up to me and exclaimed: ‘Tom Utley! How lovely to see you!’ As so often on such occasions, I felt an ice-cold claw of panic. There was something vaguely familiar about this woman. … Read more
Sarah Vine (pictured) argues most people would prefer to be slim than fat, if given a choice YES By Sarah Vine, Columnist Not compliment someone who has lost weight? Are you insane? It is one of the basic rules of female interaction — like commenting favourably on someone’s haircut, or asking them where they bought … Read more
Much as I love the Queen, it was Lady Bracknell who sprang to mind when I heard the news of yet another royal divorce this week. ‘To lose one daughter-in-law, your Majesty, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.’ Yes, I know. Neither Autumn Phillips (splitting from HM’s grandson, Peter) … Read more