Liz Truss (pictured) was smokin'! Not many others will be, though. The former PM, whose government lasted little longer than a box of Montecristo cigars, led criticism of Rishi Sunak's next-generation smoking ban. It 'infantilised people' and was 'emblematic of a technocratic establishment that wants to limit people's freedoms'. As orators go, Ms Truss is a damp panatella. She takes a while to catch light and can leave an acrid taste. Yet her speech was the sparkiest moment as the Commons debated the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. This is the rolling ban whereby someone aged 15 or younger this year will never, in their lives, be allowed to buy fags but someone born a year earlier will be free to do so. ...read
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QUENTIN LETTS: We can guess who plenty of Labour MPs would cheer in an Israel-Iran penalty shoot-out
Sir Keir Starmer did his 'I'm a moderate' act but the benches behind him wriggled and itched and surged and grumbled. Support Israel? You could forget about that. Little uttered in the Commons will have influenced the Israeli government. Benjamin Netanyahu won't give a stuff what the Hon Member for Scratchford North thinks. But Tehran, Moscow and Beijing will draw satisfaction that so many parliamentarians in a Nato country would not support the side their own armed forces are defending. ...read
QUENTIN LETTS: The BBC cares more about Asian aunties from Bradford and a rapper called Big Zuu than it does about the Greatest Story Ever Told
This is Holy Week, the most sombre, ultimately dazzling seven days in the Christian year, but you would not know it from our national broadcaster. The BBC, whose network goes into overdrive about secular events such as International Women's Day or Black History Month, is hardly exerting itself for Easter. It gets more excited about the Grand National. ...read
March 2024
February 2024
- German-US supermarket billionaire, 64, who disappeared hiking on the Matterhorn and was declared dead is 'living with his 44-year-old mistress in Moscow'
- Shannon Matthews' kidnapper Michael Donovan dies from cancer after collapsing in hospital courtyard 16 years after shameless crime shocked nation
- The habits that add decades to your life - and the ones that shorten it. Take our quiz to find out which are adding - and subtracting - from your lifespan...
- Confessions of a Shopaholic author Sophie Kinsella, 54, says she is undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer
- Revealed: Up to one in 15 fresh supermarket chickens are 'highly contaminated' with deadly food poisoning bug... so is YOUR store the worst offender?
- Iran stages huge parade of weapons and goose-stepping troops as it warns Israel will be met with a 'massive and harsh' response if it stages even the 'tiniest invasion'
- Was Dubai's apocalyptic storm SELF-INFLICTED? Claims UAE 'flew cloud-seeding flights - which increase rainfall - the day before' 18 months' rain fell in 24 hours causing chaos that closed airport and sparked rush to flee the country
- I'll be sleeping with my friends' wives until I die: I'm addicted to the power of cuckolding other men - and women just can't get enough of me too
- 'I get £1,300 a month and all my housing costs paid. Why would I need the hassle of work?' A shocking insight into Britain's worklessness crisis by LEO MCKINSTRY and INAYA FOLARIN IMAN
- Clarifications and corrections
- Are these the laziest WFH staff in Britain? HMRC civil servants are gardening, taking the dog for a walk and playing video games while 'at work', reveals GUY ADAMS. Meanwhile taxpayers face year-long waits... and a £100m office lies half empty
- What is cloud seeding? Step-by-step graphic reveals how the weather modification technique works - as experts question whether it was to blame for the Dubai floods
- Nike boss John Donahoe blames WFH for first sales slump in two years saying: 'Turns out it's really hard to develop a boldly disruptive shoe on Zoom'
- Lord Cameron warns 'it is clear that Israelis are making a decision to act' as he arrives in Jerusalem and joins other foreign ministers in pleading for Netanyahu to avoid major escalation against Iran
- Eco-warrior Prince Harry makes surprise video appearance from Montecito for his sustainable Travalyst firm and launches into another word salad saying, 'travel and tourism relies on destinations'
- 'Like Top Gun meets Star Wars': Israeli reservist pilot describes 'endless explosions' in the sky as he shot down Iranian missiles alongside UK and US fighter jets... and being back in his office sending emails by 4pm
- Woman wheels a CORPSE into a bank and tries to get him to 'sign off' a loan in her name while holding his head up in front of suspicious staff who ask why he looks 'very pale'
- Appalling moment student slaps woman teacher twice across the face while hurling profanities including 'b****' and 'n*****' at high school in North Carolina
- OJ Simpson paid Gambino gangsters to kill ex-wife Nicole Brown because he was jealous of her 'sleeping around', claims witness who mobsters kept silent for 30 years by sticking a gun in his mouth and threatening to murder him and his family
- Meghan's fruity flop? Only THREE unfamous faces out of 50 chosen jam-fluencers have spilled the jelly on her new Montecito sweetmeats! So just WHO else made the cut? MAUREEN CALLAHAN has an idea...
- German-US supermarket billionaire, 64, who disappeared hiking on the Matterhorn and was declared dead is 'living with his 44-year-old mistress in Moscow'
- Was Dubai's apocalyptic storm SELF-INFLICTED? Claims UAE 'flew cloud-seeding flights - which increase rainfall - the day before' 18 months' rain fell in 24 hours causing chaos that closed airport and sparked rush to flee the country
- Heartbreak as new father, 16, dies in head-on crash with woman, 67, driving the wrong way down major highway at 80mph at 3am - as horrifying pictures show their mangled wrecked cars
- Dubai airport pleads with travellers 'Don't come!' with floods still causing chaos and families including Brits trying to flee trashed luxury resorts - as time-lapse video shows how 18 months' rain fell in one day
- Chaos as FAA grounds all Alaska Airlines flights due to problem with weight calculation system then lifts it an hour later
- Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. and his wife were caught on video beating daughter after they were secretly recorded on FaceTime by boyfriend they 'disapproved of', affidavit claims
- 'Womb raider' is jailed for 50 years for murdering heavily-pregnant Chicago teen, 19, by luring her into her home then CUTTING baby from her abdomen - before trying to pass off the child as her own
- Trump visits bodega where worker who was cleared of murder stabbed ex-con to death in self-defense: Harlem crowd chants 'four more years' and little kids cry 'we love you' as ex-president gets hero's welcome
- Shocking new footage shows woman wheeling corpse all over a Brazilian mall before pushing him into a bank where she tried to withdraw money from an account
- Powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan four months after devastating tremors left at least 245 dead
- Desperate families rush to flee Dubai amid flooding chaos and sleep on the airport floor as flights are cancelled by torrential rain - while wealthy drivers 'float' through roads swamped with water in their luxury cars
- Ford recalls almost half a million compact SUVs and pickup trucks over loss of drive power
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