Hipster cafes are no match for the Great British greasy spoon
Hungry? Hungover? Overtaken by a craving for bacon, egg, baked beans, sausage and a fried slice? There was a time when the remedy was readily to be…
Sussexit is the result of a princely sense of humour failure
As any fool knows, but obviously not crosspatchy Prince Harry and his Missus, the secret to good comedy is – TIMING! Just as the key to great…
The Government must be ready to restore freedom as soon as possible
The sight on Saturday of Boris Johnson flanked by Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, with their often doom-laden graphs and charts, was an unwelcome return to…
Wobbling Tories should stick with the PM’s bold interventionist vision
The Tories are in a funk. MPs mutter about the Prime Minister. Cabinet ministers jockey for position. Pundits question the purpose and identity of the Government. Some…
Doctor Who: Flux, episode 5, review: a sonic screw-up
Pass me a head torch, a compass, a length of rope, marker pens, a stack of Post-Its, a spare pair of trousers and a bulging reference book….
Strictly Come Dancing 2021: Week 10 results, live – Tilly Ramsay heads home after losing her third dance-off
Neither celebrity was a stranger to the red light: both Ramsay and Stephenson had appeared in two previous dance-offs. And they were closely matched in many ways,…
American Rust, review: Jeff Daniels is wasted in this miserable Snore of Easttown
The makers of American Rust (Sky Atlantic, Sunday) will have watched Mare of Easttown with their heads in their hands. A cop in a depressed Pennsylvania town…
Price of Covid testing kits set to soar in wake of new omicron rules
PCR test prices are set to soar in the wake of the new omicron rules amid warnings that private companies will “hike their prices”. Some providers have…
Blue Wall Tories could give Boris a bloody nose in Bexley
He feels that Mr Johnson has lost his shine in the 23 months since the 2019 election, and thinks Thursday’s vote will produce a substantially reduced majority…
Boris Johnson should use his levelling up agenda to tackle soaring housing costs, says Theresa May
Millions of families face a cost of living crisis over rents, says Theresa May, as she urges Boris Johnson to put tackling “exorbitant” housing costs at the…
UK and Israel join forces to stop Iran gaining nuclear weapons
The UK and Israel’s foreign ministers have declared that they will work “night and day” to stop Iran getting a nuclear weapon as they sign a “historic”…
Brussels’ bid to standardise its rules is a gift to the City
A unified pricing mechanism. Integrated trading. Shared information, and standardised rules. The European Union this week pushed forward with plans for what it calls a “capital market…
Ireland’s elites face a reckoning as Brussels demands higher taxes
The other was Communist East Germany, and Ireland couldn’t build a wall to keep its most talented from emigrating. So something had to change. For Whitaker, that…
Rise of the nanny state puts small state Conservatism under threat
But slashing back the state is no easy task. Health spending as a share of GDP alone has risen from 4pc of GDP to above 7pc in…
If people arrive illegally, they must be sent away
The drownings in the Channel last week were the tragic, but entirely predictable, outcome of our longstanding inability to secure our borders. People have been dying in…
EU banks demand access to City markets in blow for Brussels
The eurozone’s most powerful banking groups have demanded long-term access to London’s multi-trillion dollar derivatives trading market in a fresh blow for Brussels’ plans to seize business…
Action on NHS waiting lists expected as omicron variant lands
New measures to counter the surge in NHS waiting lists are expected to be announced this week as the possibility of fresh restrictions to tackle the omicron…
Britain must take responsibility for Channel migrant crisis, say French
Britain must take responsibility for the Channel crisis and make itself “less attractive for migrants”, France’s interior minister said on Sunday at an emergency meeting from which…
Let us vote on new Covid restrictions on Tuesday, restless Tory backbenchers urge PM
Tory lockdown critics are demanding a vote on the new Covid restrictions on Tuesday after Sajid Javid said MPs might not be given a say until mid-December. …
Mask refusniks face £200 fines as ministers warned new Covid rules will be met with ‘high degree of non-compliance’
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, argued during broadcast interviews on Sunday that the approach on mask mandates made sense. “Doing it in this proportionate way where it’s…
Plan for Christmas as normal despite omicron Covid variant, says Sajid Javid
Mr Javid offered a note of reassurance on Sky News, saying: “I think people should continue with their plans as normal for Christmas and I think it…
Questor: worried about inflation? This company’s dividend growth plan is the answer
The Bank of England’s latest inflation forecasts make for grim reading. They predict that inflation will remain above 4pc throughout the winter before peaking at around 5pc…
A record year for investment trusts – but only these four deserve your attention
Investment trusts are supposed to be century old institutions known for solid but stale strategies, but a spate of new launches have offered DIY savers the chance…
Racehorse trainer Mark Johnston: ‘I sold three horses for £1.3m’
Mark Johnston, 62, is a racehorse trainer who found fame in 2009 when he became the first Flat trainer to produce more than 200 winners in a…
Foreign holidays killing the British second home buying frenzy
In Cornwall, where second home buyers account for a tenth of sales, the share of homes selling above asking price jumped from 11pc to 32pc. In Dorset,…