Greggs’ security crackdown is a sign of broken Britain
Greggs is a great British success story. The ever-popular bakery chain provides good-quality (if, admittedly, rarely healthy) treats for millions…
King Charles did Britain proud this VE Day
The two years since the coronation of King Charles have been largely disappointing ones for the royal family. A great…
No memorial to Elizabeth II is better than these monstrosities
After Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022, it became of paramount national importance that a suitable memorial was constructed…
King Charles’s reign has begun poorly
Today marks the second anniversary of King Charles’s coronation, but celebrations are likely to be rather limited this time around.…
The revenge of Prince Harry
It was always unlikely that Prince Harry was going to take his latest and perhaps most humiliating legal defeat with…
Is this Prince Harry’s most humiliating court defeat yet?
Well, what did Prince Harry expect? The Duke of Sussex has been involved in plenty of hubristic and pointless things…
King Charles is the definition of ‘rebellious hope’
While the world continues to laugh (and, on occasion, groan) at the antics of the Duchess of Sussex, there remains…
Does Meghan Markle believe she’s still a royal highness?
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle staged their dramatic departure from the royal family five years ago, there were various…
Are we at Peak Movie Theater?
On paper, last weekend shouldn’t have been any great shakes for movie theater attendance. Audiences were offered, respectively, the second weekend…
Virginia Giuffre was a victim of careless cruelty
The death of Virginia Giuffre by suicide at the age of 41 brings to an apparent end one of the…
Putin’s tacky gift to Trump reveals his dark sense of humour
For all his many faults, Vladimir Putin is not without a jet-black sense of humour. The Russian president has given…
Prince Andrew’s Easter appearance was a royal blunder
Every Christmas, Easter and other public gathering, the Royal Family are faced with an unfortunate choice: what to do about…
Toby Carvery has disgraced itself, but not for the first time
The admission by Toby Carvery that it chopped down an ancient oak tree overlooking one of its pubs has outraged…
Meghan Markle’s new podcast is just toe-curling and unsubtle dross
At the beginning of the debut episode of Meghan Markle’s new podcast, she is keen to assert her own identity.…
The true purpose of King Charles’s Italy trip
After some recent bad news for King Charles in the form of an – admittedly fleeting – setback in his…
Prince Harry can’t seem to stay away from Britain’s courts
As flies are to wanton boys, so Prince Harry is to the British legal system. Amidst perhaps the most serious…
If only Meghan Markle’s ‘As Ever’ launch was an April Fool
On April Fool’s Day, it is all too appropriate that the latest announcement from the Duchess of Sussex has the…
King Charles’s hospital visit will prompt concern
The news released last night that King Charles had been briefly hospitalised was an unwelcome surprise. A statement from the…
The sad demise of Prince Harry’s Sentebale charity
Prince Harry has had an eventful couple of years. There was the controversy-studded publication of his memoir Spare and a…
Meghan’s online shop is a new low for team Sussex
Earlier this week, I tried and failed to purchase a couple of items from the As Ever range that the…
Why Prince William’s Estonia trip matters
It is a requirement of the Royal Family that they should remain politically neutral. They are, after all, the only…
Does Meghan Markle need another podcast?
‘Success’, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked, ‘is the ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’ If…
Does the King really listen to Beyonce?
Is this really the King’s favourite music? If you’ve ever had sleepless nights wondering what King Charles’s favourite tunes are,…
Greggs is a great British success story
Whenever I’m walking down Cornmarket Street in Oxford – an otherwise unlovely thoroughfare – there is something about the spectacle…
Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is Brand Sussex’s final hope
So here it is, the undistinguished thing, at last. I had hopes that, after its postponement because of the Californian…
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