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From the moment that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their intention to renounce royal duties for a more ‘progressive role’ overseas, one thing was never in doubt: that ‘Sussex Royal’ brand would have to go. It might have sounded just fine and dandy to the team of super-slick US rights agents, intellectual property lawyers … Read more
CRAIG BROWN: People in office jobs like to signal the break between work and leisure by dressing down. For me, the same process is at work, only in reverse: I dress up to have fun.
Lady Victoria Hervey, a former contestant on Celebrity Love Island, claims ITV should be held more accountable following the tragic death of TV presenter Caroline Flack. The 43-year-old daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol voiced her concerns over the broadcaster’s treatment of Flack, 40, after she was charged with assaulting her boyfriend, Lewis Burton. … Read more
Here we go again. Our so-called European ‘partners’ are already cranking up the rhetoric in advance of talks aimed at agreeing a new post-Brexit trade deal with the EU. French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is warning that we are going to ‘rip each other apart’ during the negotiations. That dismal bureaucrat Michel Barnier insists … Read more
Without warning, the tide of freezing brown water began pouring into Deborah Warfield’s home in the middle of the night, swirling around the furniture she’d been unable to move upstairs and destroying it. As the waters of the swollen River Teme continued to rise remorselessly through the early hours, she waited for help. Eventually, with … Read more
Of all the complex factors behind Caroline Flack’s death, one over-riding fact is clear. Her death must not be blamed on intransigent police and prosecutors who should, her fans claim, have dropped the case out of consideration for her vulnerable mental state. Miss Flack, who took her own life while awaiting prosecution for an assault … Read more
Every year my sister gives me the same birthday present. Sorry, that’s not fair: Nigella gives me a jumper, but each year it is one of a different colour. Actually, I find this rather exciting, because after so many birthdays I am increasingly intrigued as to what shade I will get, marvelling at my sister’s … Read more
Amid angry and emotional scenes in the Commons last week, Labour MP David Lammy tabled an emergency question about the deportation of serious criminals back to their homeland of Jamaica. ‘People watching will see the way the Government holds in such disrespect the contribution of West Indian, Caribbean and black people in this country,’ said … Read more
Back in the mid-1980s, we were house-hunting in North London. I wandered into an estate agents in Highgate, said I was looking for a modest family home and asked to see some property details. The chinless Hooray Henry behind the counter asked how much I had to spend. At a push, and provided I mortgaged … Read more
Shortly after Field Marshal Lord Bramall shared his final wishes with his family, his only son Nicolas started tapping out an email. Furious that his father’s life should end without anyone facing justice for the shambolic paedophile investigation that made a misery of this great man’s final years, he wrote to Scotland Yard Commissioner Dame … Read more