6 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Brother Jenrick whacked Prince Andrew then proposed a burka ban. Polite society will be appalled

To complete his day, he attended a Commons debate on the Sentencing Bill in which his sidekick Kieran Mullan complained about Labour ditching plans to castrate pederasts.

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10 h. ago Robert Jenrick accused of fomenting division by backing burka ban

The Tory shadow justice secretary said there was ‘a strong argument’ for a ban on the face coverings.

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31 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Speaker Hoyle was still right unchoofed about t'China spy case

What will become of the House of Lords if Nigel Farage 's Reform does well at the next general election?

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37 h. ago ‘Here’s a script for the bathroom’: US government nuclear physicist arrested on child sex charges

Exclusive details: After his arrest for propositioning a 16-year-old, top government nuclear physicist Andrew Worrall, 56, is no longer employed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a spokeswoman told The Independent

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5 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Want to know why Labour has no hope of stopping the small boats? Meet the windy dullard in charge of border security

Martin Hewitt appeared at a parliamentary committee yesterday.To his CBE and QPM there should perhaps be added the OPD, the Order of Prize Dribblers.

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6 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: 'She's not a lawyer,' Starmer snapped at Kemi. In his book, there's no worse insult

Here is what I saw when Sir Keir Starmer, MP, KC, PM, rose to his hind legs to try to ambush Kemi Badenoch on the Jonathan Powell-'China spying' affair.

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6 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: 'She's not a laywer,' Starmer snapped at Kemi in his book... there's no worse insult

Here is what I saw when Sir Keir Starmer, MP, KC, PM, rose to his hind legs to try to ambush Kemi Badenoch on the Jonathan Powell-'China spying' affair.

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7 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Only Starmer could utter a word like 'statespersonship' without irony...

Sir Keir Starmer, inflating himself like something rubbery and faintly spermicidal, told Kemi Badenoch she was not a 'serious statesperson'.

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8 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi picked Jarvis's argument clean like a Chinatown waiter deboning crispy duck

On autumn evenings you can still believe Westminster to be the Thames eyot the Saxons called 'Thorney Island'. Mists descend. The air tastes of leaf-mould.

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1 week ago Giorgia Meloni proposes burka ban with fines of £2,600 to stop 'Islamic separatism'

The bill, presented to parliament on Wednesday, would see those wearing the garment in shops, offices, schools and universities fined between £260 and £2,600.

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1 week ago Government plans to axe public notices ‘devastating’ for local news, editors say

Ministers are looking at removing the requirement for printed statutory notices as part of a wider drive to slash ‘red tape’ and boost the economy.

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1 week ago I Swear review – biopic of pioneering Tourette syndrome activist is funny, fierce and full of heart

Kirk Jones’s moving film about of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette, offers compassion and catharsis Feelgood true-life heart-warmers about courageous people overcoming medical conditions are common enough. But not when that condition zaps and jabs and stabs at the genre itself, piercing the carapace of sentimentality while surreally commenting on the form and on the demure niceties of polite society, in which we all keep our thoughts to ourselves.Kirk Jones’s terrifically warm, generous film is about real-life activist John Davidson, who is from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders and has Tourette syndrome, with its tics, compulsive behaviour patterns and random obscene shouts. He was awarded an MBE in 2019 for his work educating the nation about the condition since he first exhibited its symptoms as a teenager in 1989, as captured in the BBC’s sensational documentary John’s Not Mad. I Swear contains a great performance from Robert Aramayo, full of intelligenc...

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: As Bobby J held the wig, one almost expected it to bite him back, like Rod Hull's Emu

After stern words about the 'anti-British' attorney general Lord Hermer, Mr Jenrick turned to the audience and said, 'now you might be wondering what I have in this box'.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Sir Mel, fresh as a porpoise, gave a splendid speech. Alas, few were there to hear it

Dawn brought news from the office of Sir Melvyn Stride, Shadow Chancellor: 'Ten Things You Didn't Know About Mel.'

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The sight of Maggie's old outfits at Tory conference is creepy. It's time for the party to end its obsession with her if it is to have any chance of a revival

Before the Conservatives win any election they will need to chime with 21st-century Britain and its voters. To use a German word, they will need to find the zeitgeist, writes Quentin Letts.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi Badenoch stood there, small, still, musing in that smoky voice... not shouting like a larky fake

Arriving ath the Tory Party conference, writes QUENTIN LETTS, it could have been day one of a county cricket match (division two).

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2 w. ago UK antisemitism ‘allowed to grow’ by politicians and wider society, Jewish security group says

Head of policy at Community Security Trust calls Saturday’s planned protest against ban on Palestine Action ‘self absorbed and insensitive’Antisemitism has been “allowed to grow” by politicians and across wider society, the main Jewish security group has said in the aftermath of the attack on a Manchester synagogue, which left three people dead.Speaking before planned pro-Palestine marches on Saturday, Dave Rich, head of policy at the Community Security Trust, said it was “remarkably self absorbed and insensitive” for people to attend a silent vigil for Gaza after Thursday’s attack. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Ambitious Ed took ownership of the PM. Maybe, just maybe, he could seize the helm again...

When we could all have done with some soothing liniment, up stepped Ed Miliband to create a fresh squall of argy-bargy. It was the last morning of Labour's tetchy conference.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: For a grinding hour, Sir Keir pulverised the nation into a powder of boredom

Sir Keir Starmer lumbered on stage, clerical and boxy. His hair was scraped, the face shiny. A plodder newly released from the barber's chair. He did a walk of destiny.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: She droned on and on like a robot with a bunged

She has gone the full Bernard Bresslaw. A horrible year in office has tarred Rachel Reeves's voice. It is deeper, more adenoidal. In her conference speech she kept honking.

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