They have been hailed as a solution to our gridlocked cities, but the UK’s first trial of electric scooters has got off to a farcical start, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Youths flouted the new laws within hours of the powerful machines arriving in Middlesbrough, leading critics to accuse …...Read More

A 'non-binary' talking house and fans of princesses 'identifying as male' are among the 'woke' casting requests now being sent out in Hollywood. In a move that is confusing many of Tinseltown's biggest talent agents, the language used in daily 'breakdowns' – private notices sent to managers and casting agents …...Read More

Professor Frank Furedi says boundaries that hold society together are breaking apart Teaching children to ‘know their boundaries’ is a vital part of their education. This is because throughout the history of mankind, boundaries have played a key role in communities making moral distinctions between right and wrong. But increasingly …...Read More

A senior civil servant has caused a storm by claiming that ‘systemic racism’ exists in Britain and endorsing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in an email to hundreds of staff. Iain Bell, deputy national statistician at the Office for National Statistics, said he was learning about ‘my white privilege …...Read More

Almost £2 billion of false benefits claims and overpayments have been exposed in a crackdown on fraudsters. The work of the National Fraud Initiative was praised yesterday by Michael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who said state help was ‘for the most vulnerable in our society, not those …...Read More

With his crumpled shirts and quilted gilets, Dominic Cummings always cuts a determinedly scruffy figure striding through Downing Street. But as newly unearthed pictures show, there was once a time when the Prime Minister's shaven-headed svengali sported a neat haircut, blazer and, rather improbably, a carefully knotted tie. But then …...Read More

She was a political trailblazer long before the names Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were memorialised for smashing barriers in their journeys to the highest office in the US. Yet Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman ever to run for president, has remained largely ignored by history – until now. …...Read More

Fears of catching coronavirus in hospital led to more than 1,750 people than normal dying of strokes, heart attacks and other cardiac problems because they ignored warning signs and stayed at home, according to a shocking new study. Lockdown led to a huge surge in out-of-hospital deaths from cardiovascular disease …...Read More

Today we are no longer living in a free society. Instead, we are ruled by those who try to enforce their extreme views by shaming and ruining those who think differently. It is not far-fetched to compare the methods of this ‘woke movement’ to those of Chairman Mao’s Red Guards, …...Read More

A controversial Chinese social-media firm’s plans to establish its global headquarters in the UK have been thrown into doubt amid growing concern about Beijing’s influence in Britain. TikTok, a viral video app that is hugely popular among teenagers, had earmarked London as a possible location for its HQ as part …...Read More