The calm is not just eerie. It feels almost shocking. Here is row upon row of unconscious, critically sick people – including a new mum, for heaven’s sake. All are clinging to life via a latticework of tubes and wires and on a scale which the most experienced old hands had never envisaged. The numbers … Read more
His was the ultimate Thatcherite success story, even if Sir David Barclay did his level best to prevent anyone from telling it: the workaholic boy from the back streets who left school at 14 and who, with his twin brother, built one of the great business empires of his time. It encompassed great hotels, shipping … Read more
ROBERT HARDMAN For a true reading of the prevailing European Union post-Brexit attitude towards the UK, don’t bother wading through impenetrable blurb from Brussels.
And so, come 11pm (midnight in Brussels), the divorce is final – four and a half years after calling time on this turbulent marriage. It’s well and truly over. For cork-popping Leavers and apocalyptic Remainers alike, this is a seismic parting of the ways. For most people, however, I suspect it’s a case of 52:48-ish … Read more
The sun is slowly sinking behind the mountain and the lights are starting to twinkle on snowy hillsides. All is snug and cosy — gemütlich, as they like to say in these parts — except for the most peculiar noise: silence. I am in Ischgl, the Austrian ski resort famous for the most boisterous apres-ski … Read more
Even for the most experienced monarch in history, this was a tall order: how do you sum up the worst year in living memory without leaving the nation in floods of tears or reaching for the Off switch? The only solution, therefore, was to accentuate the positives. And that is what the Queen did yesterday … Read more
The novelty of it all takes some time to sink in. But it is not the tranquillity which is most peculiar, nor all the technology, nor the fact that this is the first electric service station in Britain — and very possibly the world. It is the loos. Low-lit, self-contained, unisex rooms (not cubicles) with … Read more
Zoe Hardman nails casual chic in a glittery skirt and cream jumper as she steps out at Global Radio studios By Eve Buckland For Mailonline Published: 08:52 GMT, 6 December 2020 | Updated: 08:52 GMT, 6 December 2020 She is a popular presenter who is known for her stylish ensembles. And Zoe Hardman looked incredible … Read more
Though the poor old fir tree can’t be having much fun at the moment – uprooted, dragged indoors and wreathed in tinsel – this is, nonetheless, a great weekend for treekind in general. And that is thanks, in no small part, to the Mail’s magnificent Be A Tree Angel campaign. For only now we can … Read more
Having attended the annual commemorations at the Cenotaph more times than anyone else in history, it was unsurprising that the Queen was curious about yesterday’s threadbare affair. It was a century ago this week that her grandfather, King George V, unveiled Britain’s memorial to the ‘Glorious Dead’. For seventy of those intervening years she has … Read more