His rule over Turkey has been marked by autocracy and widespread division… and I fear a newly-elected Erdogan will stir up a crisis to distract from domestic strife, writes MARK ALMOND By Mark Almond Published: 19:40 EDT, 28 May 2023 | Updated: 19:53 EDT, 28 May 2023 There is no doubt the West will view…
A Florida burger joint is suing him for banning children from watching drag acts. African-American activists have put a ‘travel advisory’ on entering the state. As for Disney, a major employer, the company thinks he’s worse than all its cartoon villains put together. When it comes to enemies, even Donald Trump struggled to make so…
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called on House Speaker Dade Phelan to resign at the end of the legislative session next week. He questioned the conduct of his fellow Republican after claims that Phelan appeared impaired while overseeing debate early Saturday morning on the House floor. Paxton released a statement Tuesday afternoon…
Why do people think that, the more of us who have the vote, the more democratic and free a country will be? In Cuba, you can vote at 16, but only for the grisly Castro regime. You can vote at 16 in Scotland, too, and look where that has got them. Highly-democratic Taiwan, by contrast,…
What a dismal time this is for those of us who regard ourselves as conservative, either with a small or a large ‘C’. It’s not just that the party appears to be heading for defeat in next year’s election, and probably a long time in the political wilderness. There is also a widespread feeling that…
SARAH VINE: Wasn’t the coronation about Charles and Camilla? All we’ve seen are William and Kate, wafting through KP in Hollywood-style videos… all, dare I say it, a bit manipulative. I’d (almost) rather watch one of Harry’s worthy documentaries By Sarah Vine For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:59 EDT, 13 May 2023 | Updated:…
AMANDA PRITCHARD: The plan to give pharmacies powers to hand out prescriptions for common illnesses will free up GPs for those who need them the most By Amanda Pritchard, Nhs England Chief Published: 19:45 EDT, 8 May 2023 | Updated: 19:59 EDT, 8 May 2023 NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard For nine in ten…
What are the lasting memories of the Coronation? The solemnity and costumes in Westminster Abbey? Or the pantomime moment when the Archbishop of Canterbury appeared to screw the crown to the King’s head like a bottle top? Perhaps it was the approval of the cheering, waving crowds as King and Queen took their curtain call…
It is an image which will soon be framed on a British ambassador’s desk or a high commissioner’s grand piano. Together with the other Coronation photographs released by Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon, it will eventually hang in public buildings from the top of Canada to the South Pole. Here, in the official portrait of the…
On big national occasions, my family — like millions of others — want to be together. For jubilees, royal weddings and funerals, the best china is dusted off, tea from Fortnum & Mason ordered, bunting hung (if appropriate) and furniture rearranged to give everyone a good view of the TV. The Coronation was different. When…
We may not be able to explain magic, but we know it when we see it. It is the reason that nothing – not the naysayers, not the shrill demands of social media, not even the rain – could null the raw power of a King being crowned before God, his people and the world….
It was a look of love and admiration captured in the blink of an eye. As Prince William entered Westminster Abbey, he glanced over at his wife as if to say he was the luckiest man in the world. Not because he is the heir to the throne, but because he has such a wonderful…
Despite my concerns about his obvious wokery and dangerous interventions into politics, I desperately want Charles III to succeed and, as a proud royalist, will happily pledge allegiance on Saturday to our new King. I also believe Queen Camilla is a kind and well-intentioned woman with a good soul who never asked to be thrust…
Yesterday I wrote about how people in Britain see their monarchy as they prepare to witness the Coronation of the new King. Despite some challenges, the institution looks secure for now. But my research found that in the Commonwealth realms – the 14 other countries in which the King is head of state – the…
It was a predictable script taken straight out of Meghan Markle’s masterclass in ‘how-to-get-everyone-talking-about-me-again’ Hollywood PR 101. After months of purposefully shunning the spotlight, allowing her hapless husband Harry to shoulder the backlash against his grotesque and unnecessarily nasty royal shaming tell-all Spare, the Duchess of Woke has viscerally exploded back into public consciousness, with…
Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine that Richard Sharp, the now ex-chairman of the BBC, was Muslim. Now imagine that The Guardian newspaper, that champion of all things right-on and woke, decided to publish a cartoon of Mr Sharp as having a hook hand and carrying a box with ‘ISIS’ written on it. Inside the box…
The snobs sneered and the critics raged, but without Jerry Springer, ordinary people would never have become the biggest stars of the entertainment industry. Without him, there would have been no Kardashians, no Big Brother, no American idol. Jerry, who died peacefully today at 79 after being diagnosed with cancer, quite literally revolutionised television across…
Diane Abbott has managed in one fell swoop to find a new way to minimise the Holocaust and warp the entire meaning of anti-Semitism. That’s quite some achievement considering how long racists and Holocaust deniers have been at it. The Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington denied that ‘Irish, Jewish and Traveller people…
PETER HITCHENS: King Charles can cut the pomp all he likes – it will never be enough for our ruling radicals By Peter Hitchens for The Daily Mail Published: 17:00 EDT, 22 April 2023 | Updated: 04:09 EDT, 23 April 2023 Is the Coronation going to be a flop? It is impossible to be sure…
The SNP’s fall from grace has been spectacular, in both speed and extent. If anyone had submitted what’s happened as a draft script for a political drama just a few months ago, it would have been rejected as implausible, unhinged from reality. But once again truth has proved stranger — and more surprising — than…