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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.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: When U.S. troops kill aid workers, it's... does, it's a 'war crime'. The double standards are nauseating
The call came through as I was leaving Twickenham after an England rugby international in March 2003. My old friend Terry Lloyd, inset, the brilliant ITN correspondent, had been killed in Iraq.
TOM UTLEY: Every marriage is made up of a hoarder and a de-... Mrs U's urge to bin my stuff, but now she's on the offensive!
Oddly, my wife doesn't share my view of the need to cling on to stuff that may be useful one day. But then every marriage is made up of one partner who is a hoarder, while the other is a de-clutt...
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Will Emmanuel Macron be denied the honour of a state visit to the UK?
Edward and Sophie's deputising for the King at Monday's 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale highlights the failure to invite French president Emmanuel Macron on a state visit.
MICK HUME: How can this two-tier justice ever be fair? The ...over lighter sentences for 'deprived' criminals are a disgrace
Equality before the law has been a cornerstone of British democracy since Magna Carta. Yet this sacred principle of our justice system has just been condemned to a slow, painful death.
AMANDA PLATELL: When thousands are being hounded over their...Huw Edwards is STILL taking his £439,000 salary from the BBC?
It has been almost a year since the BBC 's lead anchor Huw Edwards was taken off air after the nude-photo scandal.
STEPHEN GLOVER: I'm a supporter of Israel, but there comes ... killing wreaked on innocent people outweighs the original sin
STEPHEN GLOVER: The killing of seven aid workers, including three Britons, by Israeli forces in Gaza could mark a turning point in the war against Hamas.
CRAIG BROWN: Unexpected badger in the bagging area! 10 things you didn't know about bar codes
CRAIG BROWN: Which came first - the bar code or the scanner? The first product to bear a bar code was a packet of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum. It was first scanned in the small Ohio town of Troy in...
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The BBC seems intent on ignoring the 30th anniversary of Princess Diana's Panorama interview
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: As next year's 30th anniversary of Martin Bashir's Panorama interview with Princess Diana looms, the BBC seems intent on ignoring it.
NANA AKUA: The virtue-signalling BBC couldn't resist waggin...t refused to value slave trade bangle and humiliated its owner
This guest had bought this fascinating curio along and now her possession was being associated with the worst evil in human history. It's one reason the whole episode left a truly nasty taste in ...
TOM HARRIS: This rotten hate crime law has made Scotland an... JK Rowling's reputation has a courageous and principled woman
My wife and I spent some time last week discussing what response we should make to a visit by the local police.
LORD BLUNKETT: If Britain had brought in identity cards, il...y's level. It's not too late to revive them and stop the boats
LORD BLUNKETT: Identity cards are a simple, practical and affordable answer, one that would shatter the business model of organised international gangs making billions from human trafficking.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Camilla continues to stand in for Charles amid the King's cancer treatment
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Planning continues for Queen Camilla to stand in for the King should his course of treatment require it.
ROS ALTMANN: The government's stealth tax raid on pensioner...ey're just giving with one hand and taking away with the other
There could be a letter in one of those brown envelopes informing them they will have to fill in a tax self-assessment form - even worse, that they did not pay their tax and face a penalty.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: J.K. Rowling fiasco proves Britain is now one big April Fool's joke
Days like this it's difficult to know where to start. What's an April Fool's joke and what isn't? Search me.
STEPHEN GLOVER: Rishi was reckless to promise to stop the boats. But anyone who trusts Labour to do better is simply deluded
Rishi Sunak's greatest mistake will probably turn out to be his pledge, made on January 4, 2023, to 'stop the small boats'.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: SNP thought police feel the wrath of JK
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: In a typically courageous and combative intervention, JK Rowling comprehensively demolished Scotland's flawed Hate Crime Act.
A family text or a dinner table joke are enough to get you ... be standing my ground with JK Rowling, writes STEPHEN DAISLEY
The Hate Crime Act has come into force, the brainchild of Humza Yousaf. It is an audacious incursion into the spheres of conscience and expression, writes STEPHEN DAISLEY
War is closer than ever - we must invest in defence, writes SIR MICHAEL FALLON
SIR MICHAEL FALLON: The world is becoming more dangerous; those who wish us harm are becoming more powerful and more aggressive. We are closer to war than at any time since 1945.
DOMINIC LAWSON: I got a Bernedoodle before they became the ... living with a hyper-intelligent bear that picks your pockets!
Poodle crosses have been all the rage for some years. But suddenly the most sought-after of all is something called a Bernedoodle - a cross between a poodle and a Bernese mountain dog.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Private school tax raid is driven by spite
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Sir Keir Starmer's proposal to impose VAT on private school fees was always more about populism than principle.
SARAH VINE: No woman looks that good at 55 without a little help
SARAH VINE: Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock - both fiftysomethings who look stunning - were spotted leaving a cosmetic surgery clinic, but their presence was curious.
PETER HITCHENS: Thirty long months in the slammer for a kiss? That's today's justice
I readily agree that many women do not want to be on the receiving end of such moist gestures, especially enforced by the unwanted grip of strong hands, writes Peter Hitchens.
Hallelujah for Easter! Need your mood lifted in bleak times...harles and Queen Camilla are set to appear at church on Sunday
LIBBY PURVES: It may be a bit ridiculous to feel cheered by the news that an elderly King and Queen will be seen at church this Easter Sunday morning, with some (not all) family around them.
ROBERT JENRICK: Why do we still send millions to China when...hat money to defend ourselves against countries like... China?
ROBERT JENRICK: The security threats we face are the greatest in a generation. And Britain, hands meekly by its side, is yet to muster a response.
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Rayner harried Tories over their tax affairs. Now the issue cuts both ways
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: What she has required of others is required of Angela Rayner in turn.
STEPHEN GLOVER: The Church of England's gone stark, raving ...e worshippers they're racists it'll condemn itself to oblivion
Readers of Private Eye will remember the magazine's fictional vicar, the Rev J. C. Flannel. He is a worldly, waffley, wishy-washy sort of fellow.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Tories losing the battle on defence
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Even when the Tories have floundered in the doldrums, voters have invariably seen them as the party of defence and security. Not any more.
Former minister JAMES HEAPPEY: This is why we need to spend three per cent of GDP on our Armed Forces
JAMES HEAPPEY: This would cement the UK as Europe's leading military power and perhaps reassure Donald Trump that, if re-elected, he'd find Nato more energised than he left it.
BORIS JOHNSON: Why the human urge to conform that's made ev...i helmets makes me fear for the legalisation of assisted dying
Like some grizzled veteran of a defeated tribe, I gaze out from the ski lift in La Rosiere, France, and I think how fast the newcomers have pushed us aside.
TOM UTLEY: The response my wife and I have had to our burglary proves most Britons are kind and full of compassion
Readers who have suffered the same fate will understand just how unsettling it is to know that intruders have been in our homes, helping themselves to our belongings as we slept.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Rishi is a decent man but he's run out ...n out of road. Time to end the agony and call an election now!
There's no point in postponing the inevitable. According to politics professor John Curtice, Labour has a 99 per cent chance of winning. That's what the bookies call a dead cert.
ALEX BRUMMER: Thames Water is not just an unscrupulous serial polluter - it is also financial basket case
After the medals ceremonies and the photographs, the winning rowing team grab their cox and 'dunk' him or her in the Thames. But this unique British custom is now at risk.
STEPHEN POLLARD: Instead of gushing on about her birthday, ...should have asked Angela Rayner - Did you break electoral law?
STEPHEN POLLARD: For years, the flame-haired firebrand has vocally demanded that Conservative politicians publish their tax returns in full.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Most of Queen Elizabeth's 600 charities are still without a patron 18 months after her death
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Eighteen months after the death of the Queen, most of her 600-plus charities are still without a patron.
JANET STREET-PORTER: There's no snob like an English Countr...imming pool at her Cotswold mansion - for once I'm on her side
JANET STREET-PORTER: I'm no fan of Geri and her husband, but, having survived a tsunami of media attention they've returned home to find their neighbours loathe them.
LAURA FARRIS: No victim of crime should be bullied into sil...mping down on gagging orders being used against whistleblowers
LAURA FARRIS: We're going further by changing the law to make it crystal clear that NDAs cannot be enforced against victims who are reporting a crime, or getting the therapy they need to rebuild ...
We must fight this chilling plot by the WHO - an unelected ... China - to seize power over nation states in future pandemics
MATT RIDLEY: The WHO has a terrible track record in managing epidemics, not least in its response to Covid-19, where it made a series of bad mistakes and did China's bidding.
STEPHEN GLOVER: How can a judge (whose closest brush with d...hreaten to jail a Minister of the Crown who's also a war hero?
STEPHEN GLOVER: Johnny Mercer is being threatened by the chairman of the Afghan Unlawful Killings inquiry, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, with imprisonment or a hefty fine.
PETER HITCHENS: My late brother agreed to be waterboarded t...ecome so inured to torture as seen with Moscow terror suspects
I have been amazed by how little protest there has been against the obvious, repellent savagery unleashed by Vladimir Putin's state on the alleged perpetrators of the March 22 terror attack.
CRAIG BROWN: Why can't Yoko Ono forgive the man who shot John Lennon?
CRAIG BROWN: As John Lennon sang on Mind Games: 'Love is the answer.' Isn't it time Yoko Ono practised what she has long been preaching?
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The King's decision to attend church on Easter morning gives Prince Andrew a chance to strut his stuff
EPRHAIM HARDCASTLE: The King's decision to attend church on Easter morning gives Prince Andrew an opportunity to strut his stuff on the walk to Windsor's St George's Chapel.
NANA AKUA: Why I won't take lectures on slavery from smug young hypocrites - black or white
Those demanding an apology for slavery are either woke 'white saviours' or young black people or activists who think they stand to benefit financially or otherwise, writes NANA AKUA.
SARAH VINE: The grim truth about our relationship with China and why they are laughing at us
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron described China's conduct as 'completely unacceptable'. He should know. It was he who, as PM in the early 2010s, encouraged closer relations with Beijing.
QUENTIN LETTS: The BBC cares more about Asian aunties from...called Big Zuu than it does about the Greatest Story Ever Told
This is Holy Week, the most sombre, ultimately dazzling seven days in the Christian year, but you would not know it from our national broadcaster.
'Are you part of the deep state, Prime Minister?' And for o...witty... QUENTIN LETTS watches the PM at the liaison committee
QUENTIN LETTS: William Wragg had asked the question hoping to make Liz Truss look silly. Ms Truss recently claimed that her brief premiership was killed off by the 'deep state'.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The BBC is set to leave Radio 2's Wogan...ht years after it was named after legendary DJ Sir Terry Wogan
His former colleague Ken Bruce describes the move as a shame and urges the Beeb to honour fellow DJ Steve Wright, who died last month.
I'll never regret exposing the airport scandal - even though it cost me my job, writes former borders watchdog DAVID NEAL
DAVID NEAL: The situation at London City Airport didn't need explaining - it needed exposing.
As mob rule shuts British Museum... How much more of this anarchic lunacy before police reclaim the streets?
Mob rule returned to London on Sunday, forcing the closure of the British Museum. Hundreds of demonstrators laid seige to the main gates, blocking access to visitors and trapping others inside.
EDWARD LUCAS: Stand up to China? Lord Cameron of Chipping N... Beijing threat persist, is entirely the wrong man for the job
EDWARD LUCAS: As Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016, David Cameron repeatedly minimised the economic, military and political threat represented by the Chinese party-state.
ROBERT HARDMAN: Help us to remember Dame Vera Lynn - As the...theart, the Mail invites readers to a very special celebration
The Mail is very proud to offer this first glimpse of the completed memorial to a woman who captured the essence of what her generation were fighting for.
GYLES BRANDRETH: Join us for a night of nostalgia and fun.....tion, but all artistes who have performed in times of conflict
When I received a request to MC a fundraising dinner for the Dame Vera Lynn Memorial Statue, I didn't have to think twice about accepting.
PETER HITCHENS: Shamima Begum's latest court blow proves on...unished by a nasty mob justice that should make us all ashamed
Perhaps everyone else is so pure in heart that they do not think there is something a bit merciless about the British State's vindictive treatment of Shamima Begum.
A Tawny Owl admonishing her Brownies about their marshmallo...PM: QUENTIN LETTS watches MPs discuss the China hacking threat
QUENTIN LETTS: If the Comrades tuned to the right TV channel they will have seen Oliver 'Olive' Dowden saying how jolly cross he was about Chinese cyber warfare.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why did the late Queen refuse Harry and Meghan's proposal for a new style of monetised royalty?
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Could it stem from Sophie Wessex 's decision to continue working in public relations after her marriage to Edward?
DOMINIC LAWSON: Changing leader again would prove the Torie... ungovernable rabble. Rishi doesn't get the credit he deserves
Soon after Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I had a long chat with the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. It starts at October 2022, exactly when Sunak took over from Truss, and ends with February 2024.
MARK ALMOND: Putin looks impotent - that's dangerous for Uk...... Saving his own skin at huge human cost is now his strategy
MARK ALMOND: Three days after witnessing their country's most devastating terror attack in years, the Russian people are in mourning. And the West is waiting for the Kremlin's next move.
ANDREW PIERCE: Labour's U-turn on Maggie and Thatchernomics
ANDREW PIERCE: In her otherwise unmemorable speech in the City of London on Tuesday, Labour 's Rachel Reeves attempted to frame herself as the true heir to Mrs Thatcher.
SARAH VINE: After the furore over THAT photo, we all owe Kate a big apology… and I include myself
SARAH VINE: Never explain, never apologise, the old saying goes. But there are times when one must do both.
INGRID SEWARD: Now it's sensitive William's turn to be his brave wife's strength and stay
Shortly before her death, Diana, Princess of Wales, confided in me about her two sons. She was particularly concerned for Prince William, explaining he took everything to heart.
PETER HITCHENS: Is there ANYBODY who can call time on crazy Kaiser Bill's clock-meddling folly?
PETER HITCHENS: People will do the weirdest things if they can be persuaded that they are normal. It is as if we were hypnotised.
DAN HODGES: Rishi may want to cling on, but he sits in No10 not as a Prime Minister, but as a squatter
The cream of the British diplomatic community gathered last week at Winfield House, the elegant residence of US Ambassador Jane Hartley, for a dinner marking the visit of Barack Obama .
ANDREW NEIL: After 14 years in exile, Labour has no radical thinking - just a plan to double down on Tory failures
People pay attention to what Labour 's Rachel Reeves has to say these days because it's widely (and correctly) assumed she will be Chancellor of the Exchequer before the year is out.
The England shirt is a cash cow to Nike and its removal of ...of it embracing wokery for a fast buck, writes STEPHEN POLLARD
STEPHEN POLLARD: Nike doesn't do pride in one's country; it does sales. It wants an England shirt without that potentially divisive symbol. So, being Nike, it has simply removed it.
BORIS JOHNSON: Is it really so abominable to belong to an a...f trying to bleach out all that's odd and eccentric in society
Come on, guys, what happened to you? It's always sad when people give in to bullies, but there was something particularly tragic about the Garrick Three.
JANET STREET-PORTER: As unpleasant rumours swirl about his ...e cringey shoots are d**k on the table diplomacy at its worst
In a bold move, President Macron has reinvented himself as Robert de Niro in Raging Bull, macho man personified, hoping this will stun the snipers into silence, writes JANET STREET-PORTER.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: After Lords block the Rwanda scheme AGAIN... Basket Case Britain is becoming ungovernable
Everybody back on the boats. The unelected House of Lords has yet again blocked the Rwanda deportation scheme on the day a record number of migrants crossed the Channel.
TOM UTLEY: Someone broke in as we slept upstairs. Don't let anyone tell you that burglary is just a minor offence
It was our resident son who discovered that we'd been burgled, when he got up shortly after 6.30am. . Downstairs, he found the front door wide open, as were the drawers in the hall table.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Could William and Harry be reunited at the Duke of Westminster's wedding?
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: With invitations dispatched for Duke of Westminster Hugh Grosvenor's wedding, a society guessing game develops as to whether Harry will show at the event in June.
NANA AKUA: White people have been penalised for years by... that value skin colour over talent. We must repair the damage
When I worked at the BBC three years ago, there was a joke that if you were black, gay and disabled you had a guaranteed job for life. But it's not just the Beeb that's being strangled by dogma.....
A minister was plonked between Rishi Sunak the veggie and carnivorous Penny Mordaunt: QUENTIN LETTS watches PMQs
QUENTIN LETTS: Rishi Sunak, after that inflation-rate drop, was either on happy pills or had made a decision to be cheerful.
STEPHEN GLOVER: Keir Starmer & Co love to pretend they admire Margaret Thatcher and her policies. If only that were true!
STEPHEN GLOVER: The Victoria and Albert Museum in London recently included Margaret Thatcher in a list of 'unpopular public figures' alongside Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
BARONESS FOX: A mobile phone thief has spent 12 years in pr... thanks to a Blair policy that's a stain on our justice system
BARONESS FOX: Thomas White was 28 years old when, in 2012, he was sent to prison for stealing a mobile phone.
JEREMY HUNT: The figures show our plan is working... but we need to stick to it and see it right the way through
JEREMY HUNT: The news that inflation is down to 3.4 per cent from over 11 per cent in October 2022, is a clear sign the economy is turning a corner.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Kate was unable to attend the Irish Gua... Day parade... But put £2,000 behind the bar for them instead
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Recuperating Kate, unable to raise a Guinness toast on St Patrick's Day as colonel of the Irish Guards, ensured her favourite soldiers were well refreshed at her expense.
What a pair of wimps Simon Case and Richard Moore are for r... be laughing themselves silly, writes an anonymous club member
ANONYMOUS GARRICK CLUB MEMBER: The resignation of Simon Case and Sir Richard Moore, in reaction to the publication of the Garrick Club's membership list is absurd and worrying.
PETER HITCHENS: Natasha Kaplinsky says it's 'important' to ...Marley smoke marijuana... while Mary Poppins is upgraded to PG
Now we learn that a film showing Bob Marley amid swirling clouds of cannabis smoke is fine for 12-year-olds while Mary Poppins has been upped to a 'PG' from a 'U'. This is taking the wrong thing ...
RISHI SUNAK: Budget tax cuts are just the start... We've ma...gress and there will be more we can do if we stick to the plan
RISHI SUNAK: Of all the things that I did as Chancellor, I am proudest of furlough: 10 million jobs saved, 10 million people left with the dignity, purpose and security that a job brings.
ALEX BRUMMER: Rachel Reeves' speech on the economy was plau...ore power and driving away wealth creators won't ignite growth
ALEX BRUMMER: So the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has evoked the Thatcher era of renewal in 1979 and vowed to 'hardwire' economic expansion into future policy-making.
Is 2024 the new 1979? Or is the Hon lady talking parsnips? QUENTIN LETTS watches Rachel Reeves' key speech on the economy
QUENTIN LETTS: Rachel Reeves, her comedic gifts having possibly been under-reported, claimed in a City lecture last night that we were back to 1979.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How the death of Queen Elizabeth II sent the royal postage bill soaring to £1.2 million
HARDCASTLE: The death of Queen Elizabeth sent the royal postage bill soaring to £1.2 million, an increase of £100,000. All sympathy letters, cards and gifts must receive a reply.
QUENTIN LETTS: Mayday! Rishi's cabin staff are pressing al...buttons in the manual, but the jet's nosedive is getting worse
QUENTIN LETTS: Rishi Sunak had sent himself to Coventry. Who could blame him? Poor little Rishi is trying everything the technocracy textbook says a PM should do to regain support.
They're not that great! Louis Walsh's A to Z of the over-rated (as told by CRAIG BROWN)
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Off camera he's this skinny little thing, a proper weakling, speaks like Julian Clary. Couldn't lift a 5lb bag of potatoes.