As the Government wrecks another few thousand holidays with sudden quarantine, you might assume that it takes this sort of thing seriously, and keeps close track of it. After all, you don’t force people to abandon holidays they have saved up for all year, and stampede them into dashing for …...Read More

The Duchess of Sussex ignored advice from the Duchess of Cornwall on how to deal with bad headlines in the media, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In an effort to help the 39-year-old adjust to Royal life, Camilla invited Meghan to a private lunch before her marriage to Prince …...Read More

Soaked in sweat, random strangers hugged each other as music blared out. Class A drugs were openly handed around and consumed with abandon. Revellers who had overdone it were violently ill in front of fellow partygoers. Yet far from being a description of the goings-on in one of the Ibiza …...Read More

Michael Gove is ‘working round the clock’ to prepare Britain for a No Deal Brexit, as the UK’s trade talks with the EU continued to be deadlocked. Sources say that the Cabinet Office Minister – who played a leading role in the Vote Leave campaign – has intensified the Government’s …...Read More

Boris Johnson has joined forces with senior civil servants to resist moves by No10 adviser Dominic Cummings to shift them to a new suite of West Wing-style offices in Whitehall. According to senior Government sources, the Prime Minister has spent six months objecting to Mr Cummings's attempt to move him …...Read More

Tory MPs are planning a Commons rebellion against Dominic Cummings's 'star wars' plans to turbocharge the UK's science and technology capabilities Tory MPs are planning a Commons rebellion against Dominic Cummings's 'star wars' plans to turbocharge the UK's science and technology capabilities – as a 'proxy protest' against his Downing …...Read More

Blacktop Wasteland S. A. Cosby Headline £18.99 This is an exciting slice of American noir. Centring on a retired getaway driver who’s persuaded to take on one last heist, the plot is nothing new, but it’s rarely been executed with such relentless power and heart. The driver, Beauregard, is a …...Read More

Did the author of The Graduate really live above a Sussex pet shop? Who did John Bercow call as wooden as a coffee table? Find out in our fiendish summer quiz 1 ‘To be bad is good, because to be good is simply boring.’ In a biography published this year, …...Read More

Educating Rita Minack Theatre, Cornwall Until August 30, 1hr 50mins Rating: The Minack open-air theatre, near Land’s End, is doing an actual play – a rare event indeed in this endless theatre drought. The planned tour was kyboshed by Covid but it has been salvaged for a run at this …...Read More

Roads narrowed so that pavements can be widened. Streets reduced from two lanes to one. Extra cycle lanes. Town-centre parking spaces suspended. Major diversions. Under the guise of protecting us from Covid, councils all across the country have introduced a host of tough restrictions on motorists. Of course, everything necessary …...Read More