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Victory may be in sight for Starmer but the polls can be de... to offer a clear vision for the future, writes DAVID BLUNKETT
It's been an undeniably good week for the Labour Party, and a bad one for the Conservatives. So it's no wonder that there is perhaps even confidence, among Labour supporters
REVEALED: Britain has become America's vassal state! How th...P Sauce and raked in billions that could have stayed in the UK
Britain is a vassal state, in hock to United States business, which owns us lock, stock and barrel. Scratch the surface of almost any major British enterprise - be it retail, technology, the City...
SARAH VINE: Why Harry cannot just waltz back whenever he fancies
Ever since it was announced that Prince Harry would grace the nation with his presence on Wednesday, the assumption has been that he would use the trip to catch up with his father.
PETER HITCHENS: Blue Lights was brilliant. So why has the BBC made it one more propaganda vehicle?
Is there a rule which says that any successful BBC drama must become a propaganda vehicle? After a brilliant opening season, the same thing is happening to Blue Lights.
NANA AKUA: Why Barbra Streisand was RIGHT to ask Melissa Mc...on Ozempic - and expose the truth about beauty in Hollywood...
When Barbra Streisand, 82, commented 'did you take Ozempic?' on Melissa McCarthy's Instragram post, the online reaction was swift - and brutal. But I don't think Barbra has any reason to apologis...
ANDREW NEIL: It's easy to mock the entitled know-nothing st...ause with genocidal Islamists who want to see Israel wiped out
It was the moment which underscored the absurdity of those behind the anti-Israeli student unrest that is currently sweeping through American university campuses.
ANDREW PIERCE: Don't mention the Tories! How Darlington-bas...ng on his personal brand... and with no reference to his party
ANDREW PIERCE: The atmosphere in Downing Street was unbearably tense yesterday morning. Pictured: Rishi Sunak
BORIS JOHNSON: Our desperate fight to save Donny the dying duckling - and what it tells us about the nature of humanity...
As soon as the ducklings hatched, I knew we were in for an emotional rollercoaster. Squashed in among the eggs in the incubator, one of them was clearly a bit different.
LEO MCKINSTRY: For the Tories, this is carnage on a scale n...l... and look like John Major's party just before 1997 wipeout
The Tories were braced for a brutal defeat. They have suffered a massacre, writes Leo McKinstry. Carnage on this scale has not been seen before in any set of municipal elections this century.
QUENTIN LETTS: My colleagues may consider me a wheezing old relic… but I'll defend to the death their right to say it!
Judge Quill recently heard the case of a Kent nursing assistant in her 60s who claimed to have been a victim of discrimination. She alleged that a younger worker had said 'back in your day' to he...
LITTLEJOHN: The Heroes of Hainault prove there are still plenty of proper coppers left
Mrs Thatcher nodded. 'Proper coppers,' she said. 'Proper coppers.' I was sitting next to her on the top table at the Metropolitan Police Retired CID Officers' annual dinner.
In 1997 Tony Blair filled me with hope but I'm afraid Starmer is just going around stirring up apathy...
Do you remember 1997? I certainly do. They were heady days for a young Labour member (I was 32 and I'm counting that as young).
JAN MOIR: Armchair sleuths trying to unmask Baby Reindeer's...uelled by the same dark compulsions as the stalkers themselves
Can there be too much real life in a real-life drama? What if the true crime in a true crime series is telling too much that is true? And who owns the moral rights to anyone's life story?
TOM UTLEY: The best thing about the Garrick? Stingy guests ...inists wanting membership should be careful what they wish for
Cancel me, burn me in effigy, do what you will, but I hope members of the Garrick Club will find the courage to uphold a tradition almost two centuries old.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie will t...yal Windsor Horse Show... but could they lift the ban on dogs?
Edward and Sophie are taking centre stage at this year's Royal Windsor Horse Show, an unmissable diary event for the late Queen.
QUENTIN LETTS: The new SNP leader John Swinney is like a Bond villain, but there are flashes of humour
QUNTIN LETTS: Good heavens, have the Scots Nats just landed Donald Pleasence's Blofeld as their next leader? Actually it was John Swinney.
PETER HITCHENS: We're witnessing the slow death of the publ...in. But there is a solution - if only Labour would consider it
Winchester College, one of the greatest of our ancient 'public' schools, is to raise its annual fees to £51,855. Founded in 1382 to educate 70 'poor scholars', it long ago lost its original aim.
DANIEL HANNAN: The scientists can't bring themselves to adm...hile Britons gladly gave up their freedom, Sweden got it right
We were told during Covid that Sweden would suffer mass fatalities. Instead, it had one of the lowest excess mortality rates in Europe. Does that not suggest that our response was wrong?
STEPHEN GLOVER: Only on Question Time could they debate mig...sis without anyone pointing out the clear link between the two
STEPHEN GLOVER: The young justifiably lament that it's so much harder for them to get on to the housing ladder than it was for their parents and grandparents.
CRAIG BROWN: All things bright and beautiful? Give me a break!
CRAIG BROWN: A few years ago, Lord Lisvane led the charge against John Bercow. Now he has pointed his guns at the well-loved hymn All Things Bright And Beautiful.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Andrew Lloyd Webber's composition commissioned by King Charles fails to make a mark
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Lord Lloyd-Webber, honoured with the Garter by King Charles after reducing him to tears with his coronation anthem, fails to strike a universal chord with his tribute.
Defector Dan looked like an intern who'd been asked to run a stool sample to the lab: QUENTIN LETTS watches PMQs
QUENTIN LETTS: Marshall Blucher was the Prussian general whose just-in-time arrival secured Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815.
ROBERT HARDMAN: When Charles wears his T-Rex tie, you know he has a spring in his step
ROBERT HARDMAN: Featuring a blue dinosaur pattern on a pink silk background, it is a cheeky play on his official 'Charles III Rex' cypher.
QUENTIN LETTS: The General was actually squeaking with indignation... but Dave returned fire
Lord Cameron, international schmoozer, intimate of executive jet lounges, looked in on Parliament for an hour or so. Good of him. It was just a House of Lords committee.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Emily Maitlis says she never brought her dog to the Newsnight studio as shown in Netflix drama Scoop
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: In Newsnight-fixer Sam McAlister's portrayal of colleague Emily Maitlis in her film Scoop, bossy-boot Maitlis is accompanied everywhere by her whippet, Moody.
PROFESSOR HASHIM AHMED: Britain will let its men down if we do not start properly screening prostate cancer
'It will take many years and a huge amount of resources, but if we don't start now we will spend the next two decades carrying on our debate on screening, and let down generations of men'
SARAH VINE: I had depression and work has always been a ref... Getting people back into jobs is the best therapy for Britain
SARAH VINE: Rishi Sunak is right - putting people with mild depression and anxiety back to work would be 'good for them'. I have nothing but respect for him for daring to say it.
EMMA COWING: Humza Yousaf's obsession with gender politics showed an absolute contempt for women
EMMA COWING: First Nicola Sturgeon . Now Humza Yousaf. It is clear to me that there is one core issue that has brought down both First Ministers: the failure to protect women and girls.
QUENTIN LETTS: Hokey Humza's chin crumpled like a discarded crisp packet as he quit as First Minister
QUENTIN LETTS: It went on a bit and things became weepy towards the end. He'd had a wonderful time and was adamant he felt no ill-will to anyone.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Here's an idea. Why not fly boat migrants to Belfast, and buy them a bus ticket to Dublin
During the EU's bad-faith Brexit negotiations with Britain, the then Irish PM Lenny Verruca warned that imposing a hard border on the 'Island of Ireland' would threaten a return to sectarian viol...
ANDREW NEIL: The fall of Humza Useless means independence ... a generation. The only legacy of the SNP is decline and decay
The resignation of Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is more than just the demise of a hapless nonentity who was never up to the job anyway.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: French magazine uses AI photographs to predict the Royal Family's future
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: French magazine Paris Match elevates the art of doctored Royal photographs to a new level with a portrait of 72-year-old Kate as Queen Mother in 2054.
CRAIG BROWN: The killer who wants to be Donald Trump's running mate
In her new book, Kristi Noem, the Republican Governor of South Dakota, who wants to become Donald Trump's running mate as Vice President, has revealed she once killed the family dog.
NADINE DORRIES: My encounter with King Charles that shows h...p to Britain - and what I believe the Prince should do next...
Despite the deep scars inflicted by the rift in the Royal Family, I see Harry's upcoming visit as the perfect opportunity for him to reach out to his family.
DOMINIC LAWSON: As Rwanda plan sees migrants leaving UK for...sted on after Brexit. You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh
The past few days have been ones to treasure. I'm thinking of the fallout from the House of Lords' acceptance of the Government's scheme to give those arriving illegally a ticket to Rwanda.
STEPHEN DAISLEY: The plain truth is, Humza's history. Get s...me of high-stakes political poker as FM tries to save his skin
The next 48 hours will decide whether the Government stands or falls. Humza Yousaf has to cobble together 64 votes to survive a motion of no confidence in his first ministership.
ANDREW PIERCE: Pack of eco piffle from the Baseless Bias Corporation
ANDREW PIERCE: The BBC's veteran eco-warrior Chris Packham launched an attack on Toby Young, editor of the Daily Sceptic blog which casts doubt on the Springwatch presenter's arguments.
RISHI SUNAK: Unlike Sir Keir I'm happy for Britain to lead the world in being tough on migrants, writes the Prime Minister
RISHI SUNAK: In the past ten days we have taken decisive action to make sure work always pays, to control our borders and to make us more secure at home and stronger abroad.
PETER HITCHENS: Ukraine's stuck in a stinking trench-warfare brawl. Why is there no push for peace?
Ukraine now has powerful new American missiles which can travel almost 200 miles. Funnily enough, neither Washington nor Kiev were too keen to make this fact public.
SARAH VINE: The rampage of the Household Cavalry steeds is ...uly be tamed - but that doesn't mean we should set them 'free'
Three soldiers and a cyclist were injured after the animals threw their riders and galloped off. The scenes were like a cross between that Lloyds Bank advert and a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Amid talk of renationalising the railways, PETER HITCHENS' ...e name of competition. And nothing Labour does will alter that
PETER HITCHENS: While designed to look like the return of British Rail, Labour's plan is nothing of the sort, but a lame acceptance that John Major's privatisation scheme utterly failed.
DAN HODGES: If the Conservatives' rising star loses this we...all will collapse - and Rishi Sunak's government could implode
Current Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen will face Chris McEwen, Labour deputy leader of nearby Darlington council, in a crunch election next week.
STEPHEN DAISLEY: Simply inadequate, arrogant, intellectuall...ble... Why Humza Yousaf is simply not fit to be First Minister
For Humza Yousaf's premiership, it is five minutes to midnight. He has lost his governing majority.
ANDREW NEIL: How Macron's France is plunging into a crisis and the warning for Britain
The French state's habit of buying its way out of repeated industrial strife is only one of many reasons why President Macron is finding it hard to get a grip on public spending.
BORIS JOHNSON: Come on London! Time to kick out high-crime, high-tax, do-nothing Mayor Khan
Imagine your elation at the news. It's almost a week from now, round about midnight on Friday, and the cameras are crossing to City Hall, London , where the votes have finally been counted.
Come off it doomsters, Britain's a force to be reckoned with... says Cabinet Office Minister ESTHER MCVEY
ESTHER MCVEY: The IMF forecast the UK economy will grow faster than France, Germany, Italy, and Japan in the years ahead.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: King Charles's return is a boost to the nation
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This is a welcome boost for the monarch himself and his concerned family. But anyone with a compassionate bone in their body will feel a huge sense of relief and joy.
The West's pathetic appeasement of Islamist extremists: For...nly allowed fundamentalism to flourish, writes AYAAN HIRSI ALI
The centrepiece of Salman Rushdie 's new memoir is a vivid but harrowing account of the recent savage knife attack that almost ended his life.
ANDREW NEIL: Not only is Cameron talking nonsense about Bre...tastrophic blunders in Libya and Syria have fuelled the crisis
Old habits die hard. When things go wrong in this country (as they do with monotonous regularity these days), it is still the default position of diehard Remainers to blame Brexit for all our ill...
The woman doing sign language at Humza Yousaf's press confe...meant 'this poor bloke's off his rocker', writes QUENTIN LETTS
QUENTIN LETTS: Humza Yousaf, Scotland's First Minister, is a collector's item. So wonderfully shifty! The lazy eyelids, the over-rehearsed concern, the self-glorification, the blazing insincerity...
I used to work for British Rail, so I can tell you how awfu...end nationalisation is some kind of panacea, writes ROSS CLARK
ROSS CLARK: Labour's plan to take rail franchises back into public hands might be popular with younger voters - but far less so among those of us who remember British Rail.
TOM UTLEY: A total of SEVEN police officers have now helped...rglary. Call me a terrible cynic, but did they Google my name?
A month after our burglary, the detective in charge of our case emailed to say she had reviewed CCTV from a supermarket which showed a woman using my wife's stolen bank card on the day of our bur...
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: What really offends me is everyone taking offence these days
When I read that the expression 'back in the day' was now considered beyond the pale, I thought: About time, too. It's an Americanism that has wormed its way into our version of English.
How Prince Harry could face pitfalls after making the US his primary residence, writes EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Harry insists that the US is now his residence but specialist expatriate law firm Blevins Franks warns of the pitfalls.
The collapse of the SNP-Green coalition was a political farce made in Scotland, writes EDDIE BARNES
For the past few years, Scotland has been sold a story about itself by our nationalist governing leaders.
NANA AKUA: It's hard not to detect a whiff of racism in the peers who insist Rwanda isn't safe for asylum seekers
Unsafe, unwilling to tolerate dissent and unable to provide adequate protection to those who go there. This is how members of the House of Lords depict Rwanda
ROGER LEWIS: What in the name of Satan has sweet 70s sitcom Terry and June done to be cancelled by the wokearati?
Sometimes I feel the wokerati - the virtue signallers - would prefer those of us who grew up in the 1970s and before simply to drop dead.
STEPHEN GLOVER: Two cheers for Rishi's defence boost... but show me the politician who truly grasps the perils we face
I welcome the Prime Minister's announcement in Poland on Tuesday that defence spending will be increased to 2.5 per cent by 2030. It is worth two cheers. Good for Rishi.
How private photos of Queen Elizabeth II with her hands in ... they were published by her dresser, writes EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
Before succeeding his mother, King Charles was incandescent when her dresser Angela Kelly published private photographs of the Queen with her hands in her pockets.
The looky-likey who could liven up the Mona Lisa... As the masterpiece is branded 'disappointing', writes CRAIG BROWN
Every year, ten million people queue for up to two hours to see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. And every year, all but a handful come away wondering why they ever bothered.
QUENTIN LETTS: One can only assume that Sir Keir Starmer's people are scheming to get rid of Big Angela
Mrs Rayner used her allocation of Commons questions to talk about... housing benefits. Given suspicions that she dodged property taxes, this was a bold if not lunatic decision.
PETER HITCHENS: To my critics who call me 'Boomer', I say this: One day you'll be lucky enough to be old
In recent years, as I battle for facts and logic on anti-social media, my critics have taken to calling me 'old' in the hope of damaging me. They seem to think that because I am old, therefore I ...
QUENTIN LETTS: MPs look down at Lee Anderson rather in the same way Lady Grantham regards her maid
QUENTIN LETTS: Lee Anderson (Reform, Ashfield) caused a kerfuffle in the Commons by complaining about a recent election event at his constituency's hospital.
GRANT SHAPPS: We're cementing our place as the biggest defe...nd our values by making sure our Armed Forces are fighting fit
GRANT SHAPPS: Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal (pictured) recently warned that defeat for his country could lead to World War Three.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How a ding-dong between Gladiator 2 dir...and Denzel Washington was resolved by Queen Camilla's hatmaker
Jane Smith, who has made hats for Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as well as Camilla's Order of the Garter titfer, was commissioned to make a series of silk turbans for Denzel.
SARAH VINE: Women bore the brunt of lockdown. Now they're s...while the useless Covid Inquiry settles petty political scores
Figures released this week show that alcohol-related deaths jumped by a third between the start of the pandemic and the end of 2022. Is anyone really surprised?
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The police used to arrest people for Dr...le Black. Today... the Met's new offence: WALKING WHILE JEWISH
Back in the not-too-dim-and-distant, the police regularly operated a policy of stopping selected motorists for 'Driving While Black'.
ALEX BRUMMER: Labour's big pension lie... They claim to be ...tarmer's plotting a stealth tax raid (just like Gordon Brown!)
Prior to the New Labour general election landslide of 1997, I learned through reliable City sources that the party's Chancellor-in-waiting, Gordon Brown, were planning a tax grab on Britain's pen...
QUENTIN LETTS: The old fools broke for supper. Nothing comes between a parliamentary lifer and his subsidised tapioca pudding
Anti-democratic grotesquerie as a drawn-out dance, Westminster last night played parliamentary ping-pong. Similarities to table-tennis were certainly evident.
NADINE DORRIES: What other country thinks its national flag is 'racist'?
Happy St George's Day everyone! I can hear some of you thinking: 'Oh, I didn't know it was.' And of course, you could be forgiven for that because in England we do very little to mark our special...
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: What next for Huw Edwards after he finally confirms he is leaving the BBC?
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Just months before being taken off the airwaves in the summer of 2023, the Welshman had been seen visiting the London offices of media rivals Global.
CRAIG BROWN: The customer is king... do you agree, even a bit?
CRAIG BROWN: Hi there! I hope this finds you well. We really want to thank you for taking the time to read this.
DOMINIC LAWSON: Blockers in the Lords must now drop their i... the real battle to get flights off the ground is yet to begin
DOMINIC LAWSON: The ball has been ping- ponging back and forth between the two Houses over the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration Bill).
ANDREW PIERCE: Will Keir criticism see Mandy back in the wilderness?
ANDREW PIERCE: As one of the architects of New Labour , the former Cabinet minister Lord Mandelson enjoys an open line to Sir Keir Starmer .
It's covering the world in a plague of crumbs that take 500...sts come up with anything better to replace toxic polystyrene?
Ray McIntyre clearly had no idea of the toxic plague he was unleashing on the world when he accidentally invented 'expanded polystyrene' more than 80 years ago.
STEPHEN POLLARD: Spare us from Ed Miliband, Labour's smug, shameless, unprincipled one-man walking disaster zone
Coming through the radio was an unfortunate, adenoidal voice that all but shrunk my toothpaste back into its tube. this distinctive drone was emanating from a man with a base layer of smugness...
PETER HITCHENS: There's nothing conservative about these warmongers and dubious drug legalisers
All supporters of free speech must, of course, rally to the defence of the strange conference in Brussels which was briefly shut down last week. But if this was conservatism, no wonder the cause ...
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Sicknote crackdown puts clear water between Sunak and Starmer
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Sir Keir Starmer keeps referring to his 'changed Labour Party', but does anyone believe that the changes are profound and lasting?
ANDREW NEIL: With Iran ever closer to getting the Bomb, Isr... unite to bring down the medieval mullahs before it's too late
Israel listened to its allies. Yesterday's retaliation for Iran's mass missile and drone attack last weekend was limited and carefully calibrated, just as its friends had urged.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Sunak's cure for sick-note culture
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: In a thoughtful but bold speech, the PM said there was a 'moral mission' to coax the economically inactive back to work.
BORIS JOHNSON: Forget the scare stories about hormone treat...ar of the EU. It's time the government truly championed Brexit
I was in Canada the other day, and it struck me the Canadians are an enviably healthy bunch. They live about a year longer, on average, than we do - a whole year.
Where will Israel-Iran conflict blow up next? Red Sea, Iraq... make Gaza look like an entrée', says expert MICHAEL STEPHENS
Middle East politics and security expert Michael Stephens, who is senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, has analysed the escalating situation in an article for MailOnlin...
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: If Britain's going broke and Gen Z can't buy a house... Don't blame it on the boomers!
So now we know what one of the brains behind Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves believes is responsible for Britain's economic woes. Blame it on the Boomers.
To the non-smokers who back Rishi's ban I say: Just wait till they outlaw the one little pleasure YOU enjoy
One of the nicest men I've known died on Tuesday, a couple of months short of his 67th birthday and just a week after I enjoyed a last pint with him.
ANDREW PIERCE: 'It's John Major's time all over again. And ...e for Rishi Sunak as MP is accused of late-night 'ransom' call
Tory MP Mark Menzies was surprisingly upbeat as he entered the division lobby on Tuesday to vote for Rishi Sunak's flagship legislation to ban smoking for future generations.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How Pippa Middleton revealed Kate's secret chutney recipe
Jam maker Meghan isn't the only royal producer of preserves. Kate makes a mean chutney, a jar of which delighted the late Queen as a breakfast table Christmas present at Sandringham.
'MPs are complaining, m'lud. Lammy has gone supersonic-pomp... MPs debate whether Lord Cameron should quizzed in the Commons
Lord Cameron, Foreign Secretary, was in Italy for a G7 foreign ministers' meeting. These meetings have to be held in sun-kissed resorts. It's a security requirement.
NANA AKUA: I've smacked my children. Does that make me a criminal?
Growing up in the 1970s, I would receive the occasional smack on the bottom from my father, writes NANA AKUA. Is it right that these days a parent could face arrest?
STEPHEN GLOVER: We're at a rare turning point in history an...s time to show he's equal to it - by boosting defence spending
STEPHEN GLOVER: Rishi Sunak knows the Tories are likely to lose the election. He may reasonably hope that the extent of the trouncing can be lessened. But defeat is probable.
DANIEL HANNAN: Why, despite two welcome victories, I fear w...ightmare. And the next generation will be even MORE intolerant
Could the woke nightmare be coming to an end? Might Britain be stirring, shaking off its bad dream, and returning to common sense?
LORD ASHCROFT: Keir Starmer is hardly Sir Winston Churchill, but my latest poll finds Labour IS more trusted on defence
LORD ASHCROFT: In a survey just under a year ago, I found that defence and national security was the one area in which the Conservatives were still trusted more than Labour.
Angela Rayner is at the walking-corpse stage in this political stink: QUENTIN LETTS watches PMQs
A lamb snagged on brambles, Ms Rayner (pictured) is in a tangle over her property interests. Were she a 'wicked Tory' (to use a Raynerish phrase), it might not be so bad.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Andrew is the only person who st...aims... as a SECOND drama about the saga is set to be released
A source claims that he really doesn't see what the fuss is about, remaining the only person who still thinks the interview went well, and insisting he had a message to impart and delivered as re...
CRAIG BROWN: Test your letters knowledge Part 2... Did Larkin get in a lather about the washing-up?
Alan Bates, the campaigner and former sub-postmaster, has called the Post Office an 'atrocious organisation' that is 'beyond saving'.
ANDREW NEIL: If 300 missiles and drones hit Britain, would ... World War III is designed to intimidate it into doing nothing
Within hours of Iran's mass missile and drone attack on Israel, the consensus of the global commentariat was that Israel should refrain from retaliation.
Trump's trial will electrify the world. But his enemies, so...ay have made a monumental tactical blunder, writes ANDREW NEIL
Yes, the early stages of Trump's trial have been dominated by dull legal procedures, but this trial is the stuff of tabloid dreams. It will find an audience far beyond those interested in Trump f...
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The 40th anniversary of the murder of W...e the Libyan embassy revives unhappy memories at Scotland Yard
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Today's 40th anniversary of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher (left) outside London's Libyan embassy revives unhappy memories at Scotland Yard.
How ancient hatreds are reshaping the Middle East and forgi... weapon - has driven old foes closer, explains STEPHEN POLLARD
For most of the time Israel has existed, Saudi Arabia has been its implacable foe. But now it is on the verge of becoming an ally. To understand why, you need to go back to the very roots of Isla...
I'll carry on fighting to defend our way of life. If parent...owing landmark court ruling backing a prayer ban at her school
KATHARINE BIRBALSINGH: A school should be free to do what is right for the pupils it serves. The court's decision is therefore a victory for all schools.
MATT GOODWIN: Police shutting down a Conservatism conferenc...art of the EU was a tactic straight out of the Soviet playbook
MATT GOODWIN: If anyone, anywhere, needed any clarification as to why Britain was right to leave the European Union - this should surely be it.
Truss was smokin'! Even though she takes a while to catch l... acrid taste: QUENTIN LETTS watches MPs debate the smoking ban
This is the rolling ban whereby someone aged 15 or younger this year will never, in their lives, be allowed to buy fags but someone born a year earlier will be free to do so.
ROSIE DUFFIELD MP: Where was Keir Starmer when I was being ...e trans lobby - and, worse, my colleagues in the Labour Party?
Following the Cass report into gender clinics, ROSIE DUFFIELD noticed some Labour colleagues changed their stance. She asks: Where were they when I was abused for my gender-critical views?
MARK ALMOND: Israel should attack Iran's missile launch sites Iran or Tehran could have a nuclear bomb in months
Israel 's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may feel he faces an impossible dilemma following the successful neutralisation of Iran 's missile and drone onslaught over the weekend.
QUENTIN LETTS: We can guess who plenty of Labour MPs would cheer in an Israel-Iran penalty shoot-out
Sir Keir Starmer did his 'I'm a moderate' act but the benches behind him wriggled and itched and surged and grumbled. Support Israel? You could forget about that.
The anti-Israel graffiti outside my door and the chilling t...terror here, writes Jewish Chronicle editor JAKE WALLIS SIMONS
'Free Palestine' has been scrawled across a street sign and 'Think about Gaza' on a telecoms cabinet three feet from my house.
LUCY FRAZER: We have to move faster to ban trans participation to give women a sporting chance
LUCY FRAZER: It is hard to imagine, given its success now, that the FA banned women's football from its grounds from 1921 until 1971.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: First-class Queen Camilla uses second-class stamps to save the palace a small fortune
She likes to reply personally to as many letters as she can and always used envelopes embossed with the royal crest, sent out by £6 special delivery.
CRAIG BROWN: Test your letters knowledge Part 1... Dear all, is this the end of gutter maggot insults?
The heroic founder of the Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society, Dinah Johnson, fears that the Royal Mail 's proposal to reduce delivery days to two or three a week will spell the end of the le...
ANDREW PIERCE: Target embassy fat cats, Sadiq, not ordinary drivers
ANDREW PIERCE: The world's diplomats, who flit around London's embassies in chauffeur-driven limousines, have racked up a staggering £143million in unpaid Congestion Charge fines.
All Iran's mullahs have managed to do with their attack on ...to unite their enemies against them, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS
DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: When Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decided to attack Israel directly on Saturday night, they no doubt thought they had chosen their moment perfectly.
Iran's assault on Israel is naked aggression that could wreak havoc on the world economy... or worse, writes MARK ALMOND
MARK ALMOND: Unlike previous skirmishes in which Iran waged war from behind its proxies of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels of Yemen, last night represented a significant escalation.
How this 'Great Fat Lie' has become a Big Fat Truth: Remain.... In fact, it's now getting an extra £710m, writes ROSS CLARK
ROSS CLARK: Few slogans in political history can have caused as much anger as 'We send the EU £350million a week - let's fund our NHS instead.'
ROBERT HARDMAN: Two weeks in and Scotland's already riven b...nd chaos over the most absurd law since Henry VIII's beard tax
ROBERT HARDMAN: This is a law which makes it a 'hate' crime to abuse a man in a dress but not a woman wearing the very same dress.
AMANDA PLATELL: How CAN Meghan give lectures on friendship?
Just when we thought it had all gone quiet on the Montecito front, up pops Meghan with her exciting new venture. It's a Netflix series celebrating 'the joys of cooking and... ' - wait for it - 'f...
ANDREW NEIL: In a world full of sophistry and double-speak,...Rowling's plain-speaking makes her... My heroine for our times
The Harry Potter author has been in the vanguard of opposing the obsessions of transgender extremists, seeing them for the existential threat to hard-won women's rights that they are.
BORIS JOHNSON: If Ukraine falls, it'll be a catastrophic tu...re we waiting to give this heroic nation the weapons it needs?
A defeat for Ukraine would usher in a new era of fear in the whole Euro-Atlantic area, as Putin continues his drive to rebuild the Soviet empire, writes Boris Johnson.
The West is already at war against enemies who believe we a... seeing first hand the gravity of the threats our nation faces
DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: Britain is at war. We have been since 2001 - and we are losing. We lost in Afghanistan; we lost in Iraq; and unless we step up, we will lose in Ukraine.
TOM UTLEY: I bet those Gen-Zers couldn't tell you why a rig...d gentleman should always sleep on the left side of the bed...
If we're to believe a poll out this week, old-fashioned table manners will soon be consigned to history. A survey found that 60 per cent of Gen Z think table manners are no longer important.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Peer claims he persuaded Harold Wilson'...ill the PM's political secretary Marcia Williams for 'nagging'
Five years after the death of Harold Wilson's political secretary Marcia Williams Bernard Donoghue claims he persuaded the Labour PM's doctor not to kill Marcia for 'nagging' him.
MARK ALMOND: There are three ways Iran can strike back at Israel - but will the mullahs dare face the consequences?
MARK ALMOND: On January 3, 2020, Iran 's military mastermind Qasem Soleimani was assassinated by missiles fired from an American drone as his convoy left Baghdad airport.
STEPHEN GLOVER: I welcome Keir Starmer's bold stance on the UK's nuclear deterrent - but will the rest of his party?
Sir Keir Starmer's 'cast-iron commitment' to maintaining Britain's independent nuclear deterrent will be welcomed by millions of voters.
KEIR STARMER: My commitment to the UK's nuclear deterrent is... Unshakeable. Absolute. Total
SIR KEIR STARMER: I'm proud that today I'll be the first Labour Party leader in over 30 years to visit the shipyard of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
CRAIG BROWN: 'Eaven knows if it's an aitch or a haitch! Uni...e host Amol Rajan changes the way he pronounces the letter 'H'
CRAIG BROWN: Amol Rajan , the host of University Challenge, has announced that, from now on, he will no longer pronounce the letter 'h' as 'haitch'. Instead, he will say 'aitch'.
PETER HITCHENS: Just like Blair, Starmer would be a disaste...ower is like bashing yourself over the head with a lump hammer
Like a stunned beast on a conveyor belt, Britain slowly trundles towards what everyone seems to think is the inevitable election of a Labour government.
AMANDA PLATELL: We should be in awe of Amanda Holden for stripping off at 53… THIS is the definition of a hard-working mum
Amanda Holden is slaughtered on social media for stripping off in the Heart Radio studio during a broadcast to take part in a life-drawing exercise.
FRANK FUREDI: The absurd ruling that shows lawyers and judges are mounting an insurgency and we MUST quit the ECHR
Yesterday's ECHR ruling that the Swiss government can be sued over its climate policies is a 'deeply troubling judgment', writes Frank Furedi
STEPHEN GLOVER: My political truth bombs! The economy ISN'T...ible state and it's NOT inevitable Labour will win a landslide
The world and his wife are convinced of these two things. The economy is in a dreadful mess. And, largely because of this, Labour will win the election by a huge majority, writes Stephen Glover.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How Kate Winslet's daughter Mia was spared the reality of Prince Andrew in Scoop
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Before his exile from royal duties, Andrew tormented junior servants by removing his toy monkey from his collection and hiding it in various locations.
NANA AKUA: Now the four-day week is racist! Welsh Labour's ... most ludicrous cases of discrimination-hunting I've ever seen
As someone who has experienced real racism first-hand, writes NANA AKUA, I find it grossly offensive to link such innocuous things with a truly heinous form of discrimination.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Putin's cronies spread disinformation that King Charles has sold Highgrove to President Zelensky
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Vladimir Putin 's cronies need to do some homework after their latest disinformation claiming King Charles has sold his beloved Highgrove.
RISHI SUNAK: Three ways we will put an end to the blight of shoplifting on our high streets
RISHI SUNAK: Like people across the country, I believe profoundly in the values that bind our communities together: honesty, integrity and the idea that you should abide by the rules.
SARAH VINE: I applaud Wes Streeting's vow to reform the NHS... lefties'... but the Whitehall blob will fight him all the way
'The NHS is a service, not a shrine.' I couldn't have put it better myself. For some time now, I've been arguing that our health service needs radical reform if it is to survive.
DANIEL HANNAN: The woke war on the Foreign Office forgets B...ng, the world owes US a debt for the achievements of Empire…
Some senior retired mandarins have produced a report, 'The World in 2040', in which they think Britain should be humbler, readier to pool our sovereignty and less hung up on our past.
CRAIG BROWN: At £42 million, a home for the wretched rich
CRAIG BROWN: Princess Beatrice 's husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , describes himself as the 'Founder and Creative Director' of a company called Banda.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Could King Charles raise millions by opening up Buckingham Palace to film crews?
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Buckingham Palace 's was in the original tour proposal, with paying visitors photographed at the iconic site but it was ultimately rejected.
Orange this, Fenian that, songs taunting victims of famines...arth will the 'hate police' make of football's Old Firm derby?
Timing is everything in politics, so it was splendidly appropriate that the launch week of Humza Yousaf's draconian hate crime law should culminate in yesterday's Old Firm derby.
DOMINIC LAWSON: Britain's failure to properly equip our For...ivalent of HS2 - except it's the defence of the realm at stake
Currently, an amount equivalent to a little over two per cent of GDP is allocated to defence spending, but the now standard call is for this to be raised to three per cent.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Ange knows she's bang to rights. But wh...shows is the hypocrisy at the rotten heart of Starmer's Labour
Ange is up to her oxters in scandal over her housing arrangements, amid evidence she avoided paying Capital Gains Tax and lied about her address in direct contravention of electoral law.
ANDREW PIERCE: Rachel Reeves receives donation from group headed by Remain cheerleader
A small, but significant, political donation to Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor, has just been disclosed.
LORD SAATCHI: With waffle, cliches and platitudes, the Tories have betrayed Thatcher's legacy and are treating us like mugs
LORD SAATCHI: The Conservative Party must now confess its sins. Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. No more cover-ups. No more 'line-to-take'.
PETER HITCHENS: Starmer's Labour is not moderate or safe - and here's the hard evidence
What will a Keir Starmer government be like? If the polls are true, the voters do not care.
SARAH VINE: Why on earth do men send very intimate photographs to strangers?
SARAH VINE:At the risk of sounding like an aged aunt peering at the modern world through her eyeglass, pearls firmly clutched in one hand, what is wrong with people these days?
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Labour must learn from the Rayner affair - it can't avoid scrutiny
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Our investigation proves the original claims we made about the Labour Deputy Leader's complex property arrangements.
Choices, choices... will Nigel Farage be tempted to join Donald Trump or the Tories in his 60s?
GLEN OWEN: Ever the tease, Farage told the gathering that he would decide 'in the next few weeks' whether he will return to frontline politics before the general election.
DAN HODGES: Raynergate - So much for Keir's pledge for honour, integrity and accountability in Labour politics
Historians will surely write entire theses on the role of wallpaper in modern British politics. It played its part in the downfall of Boris Johnson . And now it has exposed the lies of Angela Ray...
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: If only MPs showed some common sense
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: When it seemed politicians couldn't sink lower in the eyes of the electorate, Tory MP William Wragg (pictured) finds himself in a sexting honeytrap.
ANDREW NEIL: After four years as leader, simply not being a... doesn't qualify the flip-flopping Sir Keir to run the country
Keir Starmer became leader of the Labour Party four years ago on Thursday. Rather a lot of political water has since flowed under the bridge.
NIALL FERGUSON: Whatever Keir Starmer's vision for Britain ...ina, Russia, Iran and Argentina that could have the final say
Harold Macmillan (top left) said what was most likely to disrupt a government was: 'Events, dear boy, events.' Whatever plans Sir Keir Starmer has, forces beyond his control may derail them.
BORIS JOHNSON: It would be insane for Britain to ban arms sales to Israel. The sooner we denounce the idea, the better
If you want an example of the death wish of Western civilisation, I give you the current proposal from members of the British establishment that this country should ban arms sales to Israel.
LIZ JONES: Watching Scoop makes me think Prince Andrew was ... And now, unbelievably, I am starting to feel sorry for him...
Having watched Scoop, the new Netflix film based on celebrity fixer Sam McAlister and her book about securing the exclusive interview with Andrew, I am starting to think a little differently.