HENRY DEEDES: Raab talking to the IDC about the DCO and NGOs? It’s a bit light on the LOLs By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 22 April 2021 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 22 April 2021 Bamboozled by Line Of Duty? All that AFO, ARU and UCO gobbledegook? Try sitting thought the … Read more
Today, billboards across the UK carry a brand new four-word message in capital letters: I LOVE YOU EARTH. People more used to driving past slogans for Carphone Warehouse or Kwik Fit Tyres may wonder what it is all about. Is EARTH the brand name of a new online bank, perhaps, or a furniture superstore? Similar … Read more
Eva Mendes sparks online debate after sharing a quote correlating spanking children to ‘hitting a spouse’ By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 21:20 BST, 20 April 2021 | Updated: 21:20 BST, 20 April 2021 Eva Mendes sparked a debate about parenting choices after sharing a quote correlating spanking children to ‘hitting a spouse.’ The 47-year-old … Read more
Howz yor speling? An organisation known as the International English Spelling Congress has just voted in favour, or favor, of major reform. Apparently, English takes up to three years longer to master than other languages, and the peculiarities of our spelling sytem are at least partly to blame. The congress is concerned that far too … Read more
Like almost everyone else in the world, I never met the Duke of Edinburgh. I once watched him and the Queen pass by in a car at distance of about 20 feet, and that was the closest I ever came to him. I claim absolutely no inside knowledge. I have no idea if the mass of … Read more
Signing up with the app Nextdoor was very unlike me. I don’t remember why I did it in the first place but no doubt it had something to do with my permanent search for an electrician or that elusive but transformative handyman. It certainly wasn’t because I was particularly gripped by what my neighbours were up … Read more
L’Oreal has pocketed nearly £1m in British taxpayer cash – despite making billions in profits during the pandemic. New figures from HM Revenue & Customs reveal the global cosmetic giant was given ‘£500,000 to £1m’ in furlough money in December and January alone – and continues to claim. And while some of the French-based firm’s … Read more
L’Oreal has pocketed nearly £1m in British taxpayer cash – despite making billions in profits during the pandemic. New figures from HM Revenue & Customs reveal the global cosmetic giant was given ‘£500,000 to £1m’ in furlough money in December and January alone – and continues to claim. And while some of the French-based firm’s … Read more
Royal biographer IAN LLOYD ‘Grief is the price we pay for love,’ was the message the Queen sent to New York in the aftermath of the September 11 atrocities. They are words worth remembering at the passing of the man she loved since the age of 13 – and which follows one of the most … Read more
The sight of police closing down a church service is one of the worst moments of this national panic. I am more and more sure that this country is suffering a revolution in which much that we used to know and believe is being quietly, insistently destroyed. But Scotland Yard’s raid on the Church of Christ … Read more