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The death of Caroline Flack is truly a tragedy. A beautiful, talented, successful young woman who nevertheless felt so worthless and unloved, so scared and hopeless, she decided to take her own life. Someone who, despite the care and support of friends and family — and of the boyfriend she was banned from seeing — … Read more
PATRICK JEPHSON: The future Queen Catherine is such a relief after the cringeworthy spectacle of the runaway Sussexes By Patrick Jephson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:58 GMT, 16 February 2020 | Updated: 01:58 GMT, 16 February 2020 Happy Mum, Happy Baby is a modest, moving, instructive and altogether life-affirming exploration of young motherhood … Read more
I’m awaiting apologies from all the smug buffoons who told me that surrendering to the IRA in 1998 was a good thing to do. It brought peace, they said, ignorant of the true long-term price. As the gruesome Sinn Fein approaches actual state power in Dublin, will these cowards and trimmers finally admit that they … Read more
But what if I don’t want to call myself an actor? Must I suddenly feel that I’m fundamentally letting down the side? Maureen asks I CALL myself an actress. It’s what I’ve always wanted to be called, since the moment I saw Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet and stepped out on stage at Newland High … Read more
They take our votes for granted and think we were born yesterday.’ So said a former Labour voter last month in the North East of England, reflecting on what had become of the party he once regarded as his own. While Labour had once been for ‘normal working people, who pay for their house, pay … Read more
Jennifer Aniston appears on a magazine cover wearing tiny Yves Saint Laurent leather hotpants a supermodel might struggle to get away with — and we gape in awe. How could a 51-year-old woman look so hot? How could the Rachel we fell in love with a quarter of a century ago on Friends — still … Read more
Buckingham Palace could soon be given a blingtastic makeover. I hear that the party planner who masterminded David and Victoria Beckham’s £500,000 Irish castle reception is expected to organise Princess Beatrice’s wedding festivities. At the Beckhams’ nuptials, the footballer and his wife sat on golden thrones, so speculation will be feverish about how Prince Andrew’s elder … Read more
Boris Johnson might as well have made this week’s announcement about the go-ahead for a £106 billion high-speed rail link wearing a silk cravat and a frock coat. Here was a prime minister making grandiose promises to transform this nation through steel, just as his Victorian predecessors — Peel, Disraeli, Gladstone —had thrilled to iron. … Read more
The device wasn’t very big: a metal box about the size of a paperback, with what looked like a screw-top coffee flask attached to it with yellow and green sticky tape. The art of mass-slaughter has been refined since the days when the IRA would blow men, women and children to smithereens with bombs weighing … Read more
After Thursday’s Cabinet bloodbath, and the unexpected resignation of the Chancellor, I have a slight sense of foreboding. This Government is more tempestuous and unstable than I’d like it to be. There’s no denying that in the past few weeks Boris Johnson has shown himself admirably – and, to me, somewhat unexpectedly – decisive on … Read more