19 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: My embarrassing WhatsApp gaffe that I accidentally sent to every Tory MP

Go on, admit it. You can't do without it. Every morning - before we are even out of bed - we scrabble for the mobile. Our fingers grope for the little green icon, a speech bubble enclosing a phone.

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37 h. ago Boris Johnson’s cycling vision stutters as number of bike journeys fails to rise above pre

Figures released by the Department for Transport show the average number of bicycle journeys per person has remained stable since a peak in 2020

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7 d. ago Classicists take ‘ancient philosophical wisdom’ into English jails

Inmates in several prisons given chance to study ethics and rhetoric ‘to inform contemporary life’ and skillsA classical education, once the preserve of Eton, Oxbridge and the likes of Boris Johnson, is being made available to inmates serving time in prisons.In a break from the kind of curriculum usually on offer inside – lessons in literacy, numeracy, tiling and decorating – a small number of prisoners are being offered the opportunity to learn life skills from the ancient philosophers. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson says jailing of mum for riot tweet damages UK's reputation as a haven for free expression and is 'a propaganda gift to our enemies'

The former prime minister said the 31-month sentence does 'huge damage to this country's global reputation as a haven for free expression'.

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson still fuming at 'treacherous' Michael Gove as he's sent to House of Lords

A total of 36 people have been included in Rishi “Biggles” Sunak’s resignation honours list as divisive Gove is slammed as one of most untrustworthy figures in politics

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7 d. ago BORIS JOHNSON: Time for Britain to lead the world out of tariff chaos

With ­trembling fingers I reached into the chilled display. It felt like hours that I had been ­scouring the shelves in the vast Texan supermarket, with aisles as long as Westminster Abbey.

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1 week ago UK has 'huge opportunity' to be world's first 'space sheriff' for the new 'wild west'

George Freeman the former Tory science minister under Boris Johnson reckons the UK could one day become the police force of the stars and prevent it becoming a wild west

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1 week ago Hilarious moment Boris Johnson is attacked by an OSTRICH during safari trip as his wife admits footage was 'too funny not to share'

In hilarious footage filmed by his wife Carrie that was 'too funny not to share', Johnson comes at the nippy end of the large bird after coxing it towards his car.

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1 week ago Boris Johnson swears as he’s attacked by ostrich at Texas wildlife park

This is the moment Boris Johnson was attacked by an ostrich while visiting a wildlife park in Texas with his family.

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1 week ago Boris Johnson's awkward animal fails from randy dog to ostrich bite and Carrie snub

Boris Johnson's latest animal encounter comes in the form of a giant flightless bird who appeared to take a disliking to the former PM as it attempted to nip him

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1 week ago Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson swears as he’s bitten by ostrich at Texas wildlife park

This is the moment former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was bitten by an ostrich while visiting a wildlife park in Texas with his family.

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1 week ago Boris Johnson shrieks in pain after being bitten by ostrich through car window

The disgraced former Prime Minister was in Texas with his family when he was bitten by an ostrich, with his wife Carrie sharing the hilarious video on social media.

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1 week ago Home Office memo reveals Johnson and Sunak may have to give evidence at Manston migrant centre inquiry

Former prime ministers, home secretaries and senior civil servants listed as potential witnesses to inquiry into chaos at Manston migrant processing centre in autumn 2022

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1 week ago The one change that worked: I quit fighting about politics with my friends and family

I was always up for a fierce dinner-table debate – but if differences are aired without ever reaching a resolution, what’s the point?I hate confrontation. Even a whiff of beef can keep me up at night. As a journalist, I’ve learned to listen and to probe only gently, never raising my voice or outwardly judging. Yet, for a long time – until quite recently – I would occasionally engage in fierce political arguments with certain friends and family members.The trigger would usually be a passing comment about, say, renewable energy, the character of Boris Johnson or the #MeToo movement. Wine often had a place at the table. It never involved swearing or insults, but there would follow a familiar spiral: a steady increase in volume, a hardening of tone, a grasping for poorly remembered evidence, an admission that “we’re just going round in circles here”, followed by another go around anyway. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago BORIS JOHNSON: Adolescence is tosh. What's doing REAL damage to teenagers is Starmer's spiteful Pol Pot hatred of anything aspirational or that requires effort

It is not often that Starmer comes up with something so crass that I push aside the breakfast table, hurl the paper at the far wall and run around the room pant-hooting with incontinent rage.

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2 w. ago Voices: Michael Gove explains why he abandoned Boris Johnson twice

The former cabinet minister’s insights into the Conservatives’ struggles highlight the party’s deepening crisis and the challenges facing its future, writes John Rentoul

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: At last, she speaks! So that's what gnomic Whitehall operative Sue Gray sounds like

QUENTIN LETTS: Lady Gray of Tottenham (Lab) is better known as Sue Gray, the gnomic Whitehall operative who torpedoed Boris Johnson with her report on his lockdown birthday cake.

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3 w. ago Jim Allister: Varadkar ‘partitioned’ UK by pushing border in Brexit talks

The TUV leader was speaking during a debate in the Commons.

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3 w. ago Love and Loss: The Pandemic Five Years On is an emotionally shattering re

For those of us lucky enough not to have lost anyone dear, the 12 months between March 2020 and March 2021 now have the quality of a peculiar dream. If we think of the period at all, it’s often in the context of alternating boredom and strangeness; breadmaking and homeschooling; bingeing Tiger King and wondering if 4pm is too early for a glass of wine. Can it possibly have been five years already since Boris Johnson stood at his podium, told us he’d been shaking hands with Covid patients, and, shortly afterwards, announced the first lockdown?

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3 w. ago What is Dominic Cummings doing now, as he breaks silence following dinner with Nigel Farage?

The former adviser speaks out for the first time since having secret dinner with Reform Party leader Nigel Farage

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