ANDREW PIERCE: Can Nick Candy get the Tories to cough up the sweets? By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:55 BST, 12 October 2020 | Updated: 02:03 BST, 12 October 2020 Property developer Nick Candy is the more flamboyant half of the infamous Candy brothers duo Property developer Nick Candy is the more … Read more
He is one of the most powerful and popular figures in the Government, but Chancellor Rishi Sunak chose not to attend the Cabinet sub-committee meeting to discuss an overhaul of local lockdown rules on Monday afternoon. Instead, he dispatched a junior minister, John Glen, to repeat his vehement objections to the ‘traffic light system’ of … Read more
Among the most affecting passages in investigative journalist Tom Bower’s new biography of Boris Johnson was the story of how Boris’s one-time mistress, Petronella Wyatt, miscarried their baby in November 2004. The future Prime Minister, we read, sat with Wyatt in the hospital and grieved with her. Yet what will, perhaps, have raised a few … Read more
James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has put his Malibu beachfront mansion, inspired by Tomorrow Never Dies, on the market for $100 million. The sale will see the 007 star make a tidy profit after Brosnan created the estate by combining two separate plots of land that he purchased for just $5.1 million and $2.25 million in … Read more
Pierce Brosnan shares touching message to his wife of 19 years, Keely Shaye Smith, and gifts her a painting as they celebrate her 57th birthday By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 12:25 BST, 28 September 2020 | Updated: 12:33 BST, 28 September 2020 He has one of the longest-standing marriages in Hollywood. And Pierce Brosnan … Read more
As the Government deadline for striking a Brexit deal with the EU approaches next month, I hear that old bruiser Nigel Farage is preparing for a possible political return to the fray. Only last year the Brexit Party won the European elections and became the largest group in the European Parliament, with 26 MEPs. Those … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: How Tory jail cuts hacked off David Cameron’s top aide By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 02:10 BST, 21 September 2020 | Updated: 02:18 BST, 21 September 2020 Few Tory luminaries, it appears, had more harrowing personal experiences of the coalition government’s austerity measures than David Cameron‘s former Downing Street communications … Read more
Dido Harding walks to 10 Downing Street, September 16 As the testing fiasco threatens to shut down hundreds of schools, it’s the deafening question: what is the test-and-trace tsar Baroness Harding doing about the crisis? There has been barely a trace of her. The former businesswoman, who was appointed in a blaze of publicity in … Read more
His reign at the BBC began with a headline-grabbing decision — to overturn the ludicrous ban on singing Rule, Britannia at the Last Night Of The Proms — that had the metropolitan luvvies who make up the Beeb hierarchy spluttering into their soya milk lattes last week. Tim Davie, the new director-general, is also targeting … Read more
As excuses to cancel dinner go, the text message sent by Tony Abbott to a British friend newly arrived in Sydney is hard to beat. ‘Sorry to do this at short notice, mate, but I’m trying to put out these damned bush fires.’ He wasn’t joking. The former Australian leader and volunteer fireman had flown … Read more