MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Playground scuffles must end. And firm leadership begin By Mail on Sunday Comment for the Daily Mail Published: 01:29 GMT, 15 November 2020 | Updated: 01:32 GMT, 15 November 2020 With all the grace and decorum of a playground scuffle over lunch money, several of the unelected men and women who … Read more
No one could pretend that the events in Downing Street over the past few days have presented an edifying spectacle. They have laid bare the strains and stresses that have bedevilled the heart of government, and have undoubtedly contributed to the missteps that have characterised its recent performance. It is difficult to imagine similar scenes … Read more
How extraordinary that the Johnson Government, while in serious money trouble, chooses to spend billions on a vaccine against a disease which in many cases has no symptoms at all. Yet this peculiar decision is a mere ripple on the surface of a much deeper problem. Britain in 2020 has many economic difficulties, but good credit. … Read more
Patrick Schwarzenegger has come to the defense of his brother-in-law Chris Pratt. The burgeoning actor weighed-in on a Twitter controversy after a viral meme last month asked who is ‘the best Hollywood Chris’, which many online users found Pratt to be ‘the worst Chris in Hollywood’. ‘It’s crazy. Twitter is a junkyard, right? I mean, … Read more
How are the mighty fallen! Carrying a cardboard box of old junk out of the front door of No 10, a disconsolate and humiliated Dominic Cummings last night bade farewell to power for ever. The question the nation should be asking itself this morning is whether the sudden demise of the man, until yesterday the … Read more
The Oxford professor, physicist and philosopher Sir Roger Penrose was finally awarded a Nobel Prize last month 55 years after he proved there are black holes in space. It has taken less than 55 weeks since the last election for proof to emerge that there is a gaping black hole at the heart of Boris … Read more
The heartbreaking image that appeared on the front page of yesterday’s Daily Mail proved beyond doubt that Britain’s shameful treatment of its care home residents needs to end. Showing a loving wife having to kneel in the street to see her husband’s face through a metal railing, it was yet more disturbing proof that the … Read more
Some years ago, when I was head of communications for William Hague, then Tory Leader of the Opposition, he called me and other key advisers to a crisis meeting at his Yorkshire home. There were 12 of us at the dining table, including William’s wife Ffion, a highly-intelligent civil servant. But when Ffion offered her … Read more
When this is all over, when the coronavirus has finally scuttled off like a whipped cur and life begins to return to normal, will we be proud of what we did and how we coped as a nation? Or will a feeling of quiet shame creep across the populace as we contemplate the worst of … Read more
Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, says there is a ‘70 to 80 per cent chance’ of vaccinating all vulnerable groups by Easter, ‘provided they don’t screw up the distribution of the vaccine’. By ‘they’ I presume Sir John principally means Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who between them … Read more