You have probably never heard of Zhou Qiang but he is one of the key Communist Party leaders in China and president, since 2013, of the Supreme People’s Court. This body oversees ‘justice’ in a country that jails dissidents and harvests body parts from criminals. As a loyal apparatchik, he has argued that China’s courts … Read more
Keener than a terrier on two breakfasts, Jeremy Hunt got stuck into Matt Hancock: HENRY DEEDES watches another confrontation between the Health Secretary and his predecessor By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 24 November 2020 | Updated: 23:56 GMT, 24 November 2020 Borg v McEnroe; Prost v Senna. Coe vs Ovett. … Read more
Thank God for the arrival of series four of The Crown, TV’s most over the top quality soap opera which has stopped millions of us going bonkers during these dreary days of lockdown. Stuck at home for these long winter nights – we can’t go out to eat or meet friends for a moan and … Read more
Professor Karol Sikora, a consultant oncologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Buckingham Medical School, hails new coronavirus vaccines [File photo] As this extraordinary year enters its final weeks, the gloom is beginning to recede. Even in the darkness of winter, there is light at the end of the tunnel – and it is … Read more
Boris Johnson was moving through the gears nicely in the Commons yesterday as he laid out next week’s post-lockdown restrictions. There was a pep in his step. A swing to his swagger. Then as Mark Harper (Con, Forest of Dean) pushed the PM to provide the economic impact of his restrictions…zoiks! The PM was rendered … Read more
To imagine a year worse than this one would be hard. But to think of any period that has been worse for small and medium-sized businesses is frankly impossible. Countless numbers of them have been made to shutter for most of the year. Many will never open again. And many more will close in the … Read more
CRAIG BROWN: What a day… Donald Trump’s hair has gone grey! By Craig Brown for the Daily Mail Published: 01:58 GMT, 24 November 2020 | Updated: 02:00 GMT, 24 November 2020 President Trump fell to earth with a bump. And the very next day his hair turned grey. Mike Pompeo sings, ‘Day-ay-o! Day-ay-oh! Daylight come … Read more
Just when we pub landlords were hoping a busy Christmas might salvage our industry following a succession of crippling restrictions, it transpired yesterday that once again we are being thrown to the wolves for no good scientific reason. Yes, the second lockdown may be coming to an end. But Boris Johnson‘s grim new tier system … Read more
To be Chancellor of the Exchequer is never a barrel of laughs. Even less so now when — largely as a result of the economics of the coronavirus pandemic — output has plummeted and public debt is soaring. So it is a tribute to Rishi Sunak‘s remarkable ease under pressure that he was able yesterday … Read more
Producers of The Crown are under pressure to include disclaimers about accuracy, and there is now a backlash over the way Margaret Thatcher is portrayed in the series. Gillian Anderson plays Britain’s first woman PM with an exaggerated stoop, a face etched with fatigue and a tired basso profundo voice. She also looks 20 years … Read more