The Notting Hill Carnival is a glorious celebration of the Caribbean heritage of generations of Londoners. It’s one of the highlights of our cultural calendar, along with Wimbledon, Royal Ascot and the British Bog Snorkelling Championships. So imagine if someone decided it was ‘hideously black’ and had to be shorn of its steel bands, dub … Read more
Are we turning the corner? Is there light ahead? Can we discern traces of economic recovery? Or is this a comparative calm before a storm that will be far more tumultuous than anything we have experienced in the past six months and test this error-prone Government to breaking point? Let’s look on the brighter side for … Read more
After the Department for Education’s shambolic handling of this year’s A-levels results, there are growing question marks over the future of Jonathan Slater, the DfE’s most senior civil servant. Slater was already under fire over the miserable failure to organise an orderly return to school for millions of children before the end of the summer … Read more
How grimly ironic that hope and freedom should be among the potential latest victims of ‘cancel culture’, the drive to eradicate anything and anyone that sins against the ideology of political correctness. For decades, music-loving crowds at The Last Night of the Proms have lifted up their voices in an Elgar sing-along, roaring out ‘Land … Read more
The British economy is functioning like a wasting muscle – vastly underused and at risk of permanent damage. It has been in a state of atrophy since lockdown was imposed in late March, and the longer it is allowed to continue in such a state, the harder it will be to coax it back to … Read more
Adele looked blooming in the recent photo she released of herself after losing 7st. Pity she followed it up by paying tribute to Untamed, by American life coach Glennon Doyle. Oh no! Not another boost to the overinflated and potentially harmful self-help industry that dominates the publishing lists, our Instagram feeds and even our T-shirts. … Read more
As the Government wrecks another few thousand holidays with sudden quarantine, you might assume that it takes this sort of thing seriously, and keeps close track of it. After all, you don’t force people to abandon holidays they have saved up for all year, and stampede them into dashing for the nearest port or airport, or … Read more
When my husband woke in the night 13 years ago to be violently sick, I didn’t think he’d been poisoned. I didn’t think someone had deliberately set out to murder him for daring to speak out about state corruption. Even more, I didn’t believe he would die. Why would I? I didn’t believe it as his … Read more
A few days ago, I took a stroll to the shops. It was a glorious morning and the parks and cafés were full of families enjoying the sunshine. Perhaps the shops were a little quieter than they would have been a year ago; but they were busy enough. The restaurants were preparing for lunch; the … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: £2trillion of debt – here’s one horrific bill Dishy Rishi CAN’T just wave away By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 21 August 2020 | Updated: 00:03 BST, 22 August 2020 For anyone still indulging in the fantasy that life can be one long furlough, the speed with which our … Read more