When it was confirmed to Oliver Letwin, the longtime Conservative policy wonk, that he is indeed to be handed one of the highest awards afforded by David Cameron’s resignation honours list, he said ‘One love! One heart!’, and tugging at his surreptitiously braided hair, called on his former boss to offer, ‘Let’s get together and feel alright’. And Oliver Letwin said…
Asserting his free will, denying that the pernicious hand of sponsorship was at play, at the last Mass of his five-day trip to Poland Pope Francis told one million pilgrims near Krakow that he is taking up Pokémon Go, and that they should too lest they become ‘couch potatoes’. Addressing the young at Saturday’s youth festival, the leader of the worldwide…
In most jobs you wouldn’t take eagerly to the national press only to boldly predict your own failure, but Met chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has been telling everyone this week that a terrorist atrocity ought to be expected every moment he remains in charge. As the Metropolitan police commissioner, Hogan-Howe is the highest ranking police officer in the United Kingdom. And beyond…
If your party is one person, how do you lose that person and keep up the pretence of having a party? That is the quandary facing UKIP as it searches for a new leader to replace the outgoing, and already bitterly divisive, Nigel Farage. Never more than a single-issue undertaking, a solitary soapbox with an inflammatory slogan scrawled on the front, post-Farage and…
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In news which is hardly likely to please the nation’s art enthusiasts, but should at least satiate the peoples’ hungry bellies, Culture Secretary Karen Bradley announced this lunchtime that Britain’s top museums will henceforth shut at weekends, while during the week they will sell more sandwiches. Most of Britain’s more than 2,500 museums rely on local authority funding, self-generated income,…
David Cameron will undoubtedly go down as one of the most ridiculous and bathetic Prime Ministers in British history, but nobody can say that he’s not a good friend. Whether you’re corrupt or incompetent or a bit of both, if you’re besties with Dave you’ll turn out alright. His former Director of Communications Andy Coulson may have served his share…
So it’s finally summer, and the thirst is real, oh Lord the thirst! In some parts of the world you can drink slushies, but in the sort of parts of the world where there is no 7-Eleven or there persists an overt concern for health, you might have to rely on fruit juices to sate your appetite for something wet and cooling. Fruit…
With a meat-based nickname, a belly that protrudes far beyond the confines of his belt, a face that is kind of funny looking, and a background which is playfully working class, what is there not to love about Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston? The happy-go-lucky golfer – the son of a bus driver and dinner lady, who together ensured that he made each and…
