Chaos fears over PFI end: Hospitals and schools could suffer major disruption as £10billion of contracts expire Schools and hospitals could see disruption as number of PFI schemes finish Taxpayers could be landed with huge bill when 200 PFI contracts expire MPs warned millions could be wasted on expensive consultants to sort out deals The … Read more
Is Meghan Markle already preparing a bid to be America’s first woman President? Duchess of Sussex will ‘use furore over Oprah interview to launch political career as she networks among Democrats’, claims senior Labour figure with strong links to Washington One senior Labour figure claimed she was networking among senior Democrats Networking said to be … Read more
Confession time. I cannot sing like David Bowie nor write plays like Harold Pinter nor poems like Rudyard Kipling. Yet we do have something in common. We have all said no to the offer of a gong. Actually even that isn’t quite true. In my case it was suggested by Alastair Campbell when he was … Read more
Alastair Campbell has apologised for ‘helping the anti-vaxxer cause’ after sharing a Danish story that suggested the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab can cause blood clots. The former Downing Street spin doctor shared the story on Twitter on Thursday morning to his 650,000 followers and also accused the government of hubris. ‘Not fully fluent in Danish, but this … Read more
Alastair Campbell has apologised for ‘helping the anti-vaxxer cause’ after sharing a Danish story that suggested the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab can cause blood clots. The former Downing Street spin doctor shared the story on Twitter on Thursday morning to his 650,000 followers and also accused the government of hubris. ‘Not fully fluent in Danish, but this … Read more
Exec at US TV firm behind Sussexes’ interview was producer of controversial programme that screened images of Princess Diana as she lay dying Susan Zirinsky worked on CBS’s 48 Hours Investigates in 2004 when it screened two images of an unconscious Diana The Princess was slumped in the back of a car after the crash in Paris … Read more
Former Prime Minister David Cameron got his Covid vaccine today — despite not being in his sixties. The 54-year-old said he was ‘proud’ to have received the jab and hailed the NHS for its ‘deeply impressive’ roll-out. He tweeted a photograph of himself being injected at a clinic in London, adding: ‘Huge “thank you” to our brilliant … Read more
After prime ministers waddle out of Downing Street for the final time there’s a tendency for their looks to, well, go to pot. Think Gordon Brown’s haunted features or Tony Blair’s stocking-over-the head visage. So when David Cameron appeared before the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy yesterday I was expecting an ungainly mass of … Read more
Tony Blair calls for vaccine passports: Ex-PM says scheme would make public ‘feel safe’ to return to normal life – and suggests anti-vaxxers are not ‘very sensible’ The former PM, 67, encouraged everyone to have the Covid vaccine if possible UK Government considering a ‘Covid clear’ scheme ahead of lockdown lift Mr Blair stressed that … Read more
David Cameron and Tony Blair want new law to ban ‘glorifying terrorism’ in bid to target Islamist extremists and far-Right groups A report is calling for a new law against glorifying terrorism to tackle extremism Calls for a shake-up to thwart ‘dangerous’ behaviour by far-Right groups The proposals could lead to the outlawing of groups … Read more