19 h. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: There are horror stories coming out of the Treasury in advance of the Budget. But that's not the most terrifyingly offensive part...

As the free speech campaigner Toby Young said: 'The OECD is typical of elite European institutions. Instead of doing its job, it's been captured by radical progressive ideology.'

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20 h. ago Halloween ghouls set to dress up as Prince Andrew after royal's horror stories

Online firms are flogging cardboard masks of disgraced blue blood Prince Andrew for as little as £4, making him a cheap option for this year's Halloween

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4 d. ago Martyn James: Halloween horror stories and how to avoid them

It may be the season, says Martyn James. but things going bump in the night are (probably) not ghosts

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1 week ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: This deal would never have flown without the force of nature that is Donald J. Trump

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr President. The gratitude of the families of the Israeli hostages who will soon be returned home was unconfined.

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1 week ago BRYONY GORDON: Workplace drinking culture is the haven of the functioning alcoholic

I was only supposed to be going for one. It's always that way, isn't it, when it comes to after-work drinks. 'Let's just have a quick glass of wine,' someone will say as they put on their coat.

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2 w. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Football clubs take the knee for BLM every week

No word yet from Gary Lineker on the Manchester synagogue attack. Not a dicky bird on Instagram , Facebook or whatever Twitter calls itself this week.

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2 w. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: I walked those Manchester streets with a worried Rabbi 20 years ago. This may have been a long time coming, but two years of hate

Shocked but not surprised. That was the resigned reaction of Britain's Jewish community to the appalling terrorist attack at the Manchester synagogue. It's a sentiment I share.

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3 w. ago AncestryDNA horror stories prove these genealogy kits ruin lives. I've seen the broken families

AncestryDNA kits are described as perfect gifts for Father's Day or for genealogy enthusiasts, but they can often unlock devastating family secrets.

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3 w. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The scandal of the Taliban commander's nephew who's now allowed to have eight jobless relatives join him in Britain shows why Reform are heading for a landslide

Here's yet another lunatic asylum case to make your blood boil. A Taliban commander's nephew given refugee status in Britain can now be joined by seven - yes seven - family members.

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3 w. ago ‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier

From Rebecca to The Birds and scores of creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” It’s one of the most well-known first lines ever written in a novel. Certainly the most memorable; I used it myself as an epigram in my novel Bag of Bones. Daphne du Maurier also wrote what may be the best first line in a tale of the uncanny and outre. Her classic story The Birds opens with this: “On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter.” Short, chilly and to the point. It could almost be a weather report.It works so well at the outset of the gripping tale that follows, in which every species of bird attacks humankind, because it’s flat, declarative and realistic. Du Maurier can gin up horror when she wants – see The Doll, The Blue Lenses and the shocking final two pages of Don’t Look Now – but knows that what’s wanted here to instil belie...

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4 w. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Why the hell is the Prime Minister showboating about a war which has nothing to do with us while the country is going to hell in a handcart

Monday morning, sparrow's wossname. Farouk from Maidstone calls Nick Ferrari on LBC Radio to rant about Israel's war of self-defence in Gaza.

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