OK FOLKS .. Delighted to have been able today to get to the heart of the Earl Spencer book/Diana/Prince Harry story with the most elegant of show hosts Mr @mrmarkdolan 😁 👍 🖥 🎤.. Catch it here .. piped.video/dafabmbhDvw

Fury as NSPCC say male teachers can supervise girls in changing rooms trib.al/ilToTDN

WOMEN'S RIGHTS AREN'T YOURS TO GIVE AWAY.

Had a ball filming with @mrmarkdolan discussing--- what else? Everyone's un- favourite Private Citizens. Many thanks for having me Mark. You are a giant and a gent!

I see that Stella Creasy is accusing me of leading a pitchfork mob against her, because I opined that she is less likeable and more hypocritical than the wild parakeet she mistook for an escaped pet. For those who don’t know, Creasy is an elected politician and self-proclaimed ‘old-fashioned feminist’ who is ‘still fighting the patriarchy’. She’s more than once publicly defined herself against me (and my reaction was not to accuse her of leading a mob, even though I was probably averaging a dozen death threats a day at the point when the article below appeared.) I thought it might be instructive for those of us who don’t share Creasy’s brand of ‘feminism’ to examine her campaigning record, so we can learn to do better. Creasy wants women admitted to the male-only, exclusive, London-based private members Garrick Club, a change that would benefit rather privileged women like Creasy. Creasy is a mother who wants better accommodations for working mothers, a change that would benefit Creasy. Creasy takes selfies at a men-only Muslim march because that reminds everyone how non-racist she is, which benefits Creasy. Creasy asserts that ‘trans women are women’, which keeps her in good odour with her party’s most aggressive activists, and benefits Creasy. However, keeping cross-dressing heterosexual men out of nurses’ changing rooms doesn’t benefit Creasy, because Creasy has never had to mop up other people’s piss, blood and vomit at work. Challenging the notion that a male basketball player becomes a girl if he says he is doesn’t benefit Creasy, who has no sporting ambitions. Speaking up against the patriarchy as practised by non-white men doesn’t benefit Creasy, who wants those selfie-opportunities. Criticising an ideological movement that persecutes, harasses and openly threatens women who don’t believe some women have penises wouldn't benefit Creasy, because she's already fully-signed up to self-id, where any man who says he's a woman must be taken at his word. As the late Gloria Steinem said: ‘“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere.’ Creasy the patriarchy-challenger is provably more than happy to cosy up to men and misogynist movements when it suits her public profile and career advancement, no matter the harms those men might be causing less privileged women. By Steinem’s definition, what Stella espouses is not feminism, but Creasyism, and I suggest the emblem for this brave new rights movement should be an indignant parakeet with severely ruffled feathers. telegraph.co.uk/women/life/s…

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has announced he is resigning as the MP for Holborn and St Pancras

David, I’m the other black one.

London is de-gentrifying — and that’s far more worrying than gentrification ever was. The latest figures show the capital has recorded its first real population decline in 37 years, with 420,000 people leaving for other parts of Britain. This is a flashing sign that the nation’s capital is moving in the wrong direction. In the early 2010s, Brixton was the poster child for urban revival. So much so that, in 2013, anti-gentrification protesters “Yuppies Out” marched on a Champagne and cheese shop. That shop closed last September.  The Dogstar, once a nightlife landmark, and targeted in several earlier riots, was forced to shut in 2024. Squatters moved in within days, while units in Brixton market sit vacant, inviting antisocial behaviour. Gentrification is one of those archetypal bogeymen: wealthy phonies moving into a poor but cool neighbourhood, forcing out the “true” locals in favour of matcha lattes and yoga studios, destroying an area’s character in the process. But, in fact, everything you’ve been told about gentrification is wrong: it’s immensely beneficial to all. We’re now seeing the reverse. Across London we’re seeing disinvestment, declining amenity, fewer homes being built, higher-income residents leaving, and an increasingly hostile attitude towards regeneration. Neighbourhoods that were once symbols of revival are instead becoming symbols of stagnation. This isn’t authenticity triumphing over capitalism. It isn’t communities being “saved”. It’s decline. London’s prosperity has never come from freezing neighbourhoods. It came from attracting ambitious people, investment and development. Successful regeneration transformed once crime-ridden and neglected areas into places where people actually wanted to live, work and start businesses. Contrary to the popular narrative, the evidence that gentrification forces mass displacement has always been remarkably weak. What it overwhelmingly does is improve neighbourhoods and expand opportunity. Yet we’ve spent the past decade romanticising poverty while treating regeneration as something shameful. Planning applications are blocked. New housing is opposed. Investment is viewed with suspicion. The result is a city that people increasingly choose to leave. London isn’t Britain’s problem. It’s Britain’s greatest asset. When London grows, the whole country benefits. When London declines, the consequences are felt far beyond the M25. We’ve run this experiment before. Between 1939 and 1988, London’s population fell by a quarter under policies of managed decline. It took decades to reverse that mistake. The latest figures should be a warning that we may be repeating it. We should stop fearing gentrification and start fearing de-gentrification. London’s future depends not on managing decline, but on welcoming regeneration once again.

🚨 NEW: The total number of millionaires in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis There were 442,000 millionaires in 2025, down from over 1m in 2021