54 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Pop! Mount Kemi blew her top like Etna ... vulcanologists in Geneva may have picked up a blip on their seismographs

Mount Etna erupted this week. Kemi Badenoch did something similar at PMQs. Blew her top. Pop!

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69 h. ago White Brits will be a minority in the UK within the next 40 years, report claims

A study into birth rates and migration levels has predicted that white British people will make up only 33.7 per cent of the UK population by the end of the century.

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3 d. ago When Yvette Cooper speaks it all feels so formulaic, it conveys nothing: QUENTIN LETTS

Yesterday Yvette Cooper arrived at the home affairs select committee for what was expected to be a showdown.

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5 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: My friends in France say their country's ban on smoking in public will be ignored with a Gallic shrug. Will we be as defiant when it happens here?

Can this really be la belle France, which gave us such classic images as the young Brigitte Bardot smoking a cigar and Audrey Hepburn holding a cigarette holder as long as a magician's wand?

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Castration! The Secretary of State was desperate to depict herself as a toughie, so she aimed below the belt

QUENTIN LETTS: Shabana Mahmood was eager to discuss castration. The Justice Secretary had just announced an unprecedented dilution of criminal sentences.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: What a day for the Chancellor to be away... she's in a scrap with Rayner, then PM does the dirty!

Where was the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves ? Her customary position next to Sir Keir was occupied by Yvette Cooper, radiating all her customary gaiety.

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2 w. ago Natalie Portman says the size of her baby bump was mocked at the 2011 Oscars

The Black Swan star said people told her they hoped she didn’t give birth on the red carpet, despite only being four months pregnant

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Sir Keir was priggishly cocky. He's stuck us back on the gluey flypaper of the EU...

In this Commons there was no time for such impertinence, says QUENTIN LETTS. Only one attitude was permitted: fealty to the Prime Minister.

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2 w. ago Hospitals and gyms to be able to request birth certificates of trans people to protect single

The Equality and Human Rights Commission said it may be 'necessary and proportionate' to ask somebody about their birth sex in certain situations, provided it is done in a 'sensitive way'.

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2 w. ago EHRC says people could be asked for birth certificates to prove biological sex

The consultation period was extended from two weeks to six ‘in light of the level of public interest’, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said.

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2 w. ago Ursula found it hard to disguise her disbelief and glee at Deer Keer's cave

Standing between two Brussels grand-fromages, Sir Keir Starmer could have been an escapee returned to the gaolers.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Volcanic Sir Lindsay's eruptions left hapless minister buried in ash

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the Commons, erupted three times. Volcanologists will note that the same can be said of Iceland's Mt Thrihnukagigur, but that has been dormant for 4,000 years.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: For once Starmer united the House, but there was a peevishness in our stodgy helmsman's breast

Nasal knight nips! Maybe it was tiredness, or crossness at recent setbacks, or simply that he cannot abide the sound of the woman. 

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Multiculturalism has done far more to fan racial tensions than Enoch Powell ever did

Who was Enoch Powell? With his evocative name again electrifying headlines, this basic question needs examining.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: 'All rise, if able'... yet another confected attack on our language by the grievance seekers who gave us 'chest feeders' and 'birth people'

QUENTIN LETTS: For centuries, those two words 'All rise!' were sufficient for the commencement of judicial proceedings and a show of respect for the so-called majesty of the law. Until now.

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4 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer had the tone of a gopher grateful to a mafia don for not having him rubbed out in the parking lot

This is going to sound like a Barbara Cartland novel but it actually happened. Donald Trump seized Peter Mandelson's hand and went all husky.

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4 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: When the MP finally stopped talking, the guide dog in front of her rolled over and stuck its four legs in the air, stiff as a corpse

Sir Keir Starmer has reached the 'exasperated' stage.

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