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SPECIAL REPORT - Why recollections may vary (again): ROBERT HARDMAN investigates Earl Spencer's most shocking allegations... as friends reveal how Charles really reacted to Diana's death - and why suggestion late Queen loved Johnny Spencer is mad

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: AI kill off humanity? Dealing with chatbots has made me lose the will to live

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BRYONY GORDON: There is something utterly insane and cruel in the way Ed Sheeran has been attacked

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Dear Bel, I can't express the depths I reached emotionally: my desperate feelings of the fear of losing everything (we have children) and how much I cried during those three years of torment.

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The world convened this week to scan a horizon bleaker and darker than any we have known for nearly a century. Economic turmoil. War and rumours of war. Grim intimations of humanity's erasure.

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The pasty-faced coward is going to limp on, without a mandate, for three more years - when it is becoming clearer with every passing day Labour simply cannot and will not rise to the challenge.

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The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats see themselves as the forward-looking, progressive voices of British politics.

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It's over, writes DAN HODGES. Nigel Farage's dream of becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is finally dead.

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Ours is an island nation with one of the most sophisticated, best-funded border forces in the world, writes NIGEAL FARAGE. Yet boats continue to arrive without the authorities even knowing.

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The Government has locked the nation in a doom loop of spending and higher taxes, from which there can be no painless escape, writes ALEX BRUMMER.

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Auschwitz and Disney. Putting the two together is incongruous, if not grotesque.It's natural to think our celebrity culture could hardly sink any lower than to pair Wayne Rooney with Auschwitz.

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QUENTIN LETTS: His encounter with Trump exposed Burnham as a shrivelling, gauche bag of nerves - ill-suited to be PM in perilous times

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The Royal Family have always seemed to me to have a slightly condescending attitude to their continental cousins. But the King could learn a thing or two from the foreign monarchies...

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Andy Burnham's first meeting with Donald Trump couldn't have gone better. His opening round of diplomacy with the West's most controversial leader didn't just go well. It went too well.

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There is no painless way to fix Britain's welfare system. Welfare should be a safety net for those in genuine need. It is not meant to be a comfortable option for people who can work, but choose not to.

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How 'Chinese vultures' have slowly but surely stripped Britain's assets... from nuclear power, property and black cabs, to football clubs and now schools. So why ARE our politicians meekly watching on as shadowy Communist controlled firms pillage Britain?

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The cynical truth behind the dire warnings from tech bosses who say AI is going to wipe out humanity: TOM LEONARD

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The Real Rooneys is an exercise in pretence, a palatial facade covering up - who knows what? The show is almost all repetition and padding.

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SARAH VINE: My message to the four-times married colossal cad Earl Spencer: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

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Vladimir Putin is on the brink of his own catastrophic miscalculation - one that could trigger Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and tip Europe towards World War III.

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Geopolitical analysts had a choice - watch Donald Trump address the United Nations; or feel the throb of power as Sir Edward Davey gave his leader's speech to the Lib Dem conference in Brighton.

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Nigella Lawson put Paul Hollywood back in his cake box as the Mistress of Meringue makes her delicious Bake Off debut: JAN MOIR shares her review from the sofa

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ANDREW GRIFFITH: Burnham would rather tax us all to death than take hard decisions

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You may not have caught last night's Channel 5 documentary, Lucy Letby: Scapegoat?, so I urge you to watch it on catch-up as soon as possible. This young nurse is serving 15 whole-life orders

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DANIEL HANNAN: Britain's only being targeted for slavery reparations because we're seen as a soft touch. Time to fight back!

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The most ambitious documentary series in television history concludes this week. 7Up, tracing the lives of 14 British people across the class spectrum, from childhood to pension

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Operation Warm Welcome is the cosy name for the British effort to help thousands of terrified Afghans after they won sanctuary in the UK following the Taliban takeover

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For the first time in six decades, a magnificent bluefin tuna has been caught off our North Sea coast. TOM PARKER BOWLES salutes the return of the behemoths

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QUENTIN LETTS: Pour me a hemlock martini. The cliches at the Lib Dem conference give you early-onset rigor mortis

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Last week, rapper Macklemore used an Ed Sheeran concert to denounce Israel's conduct in Gaza, triggering a row that saw him dumped from the tour.

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RICHARD KAY: I spoke to Earl Spencer straight after Diana's death - what he said then about his row with Charles chimes with his damning memoir. From my many conversations with her, I believe she would have wanted him to write this book

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In the extracts published by the Daily Mail, Earl Spencer's undimmed malice burns off the page, a heartless corrosion that is awful to behold

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The Earl was 33 years old when he buried his sister. I was 37 when I buried my brother, Michael. She died in a car crash; he after a very short battle with cancer.

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ROBERT HARDMAN: Will the last millionaire to quit socialist Britain for sunny, low-tax, Thatcherite Greece please turn out the eco-lightbulbs

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It's still illegal yet the police simply don't seem to care why the whole country stinks of weed: PETER HITCHENS

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Victims are believed to have paid £850 in cash for Luyen Vu, who has no known medical training, to chop off part of their eyelids.

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AMANDA PLATELL: Sydney Sweeney is under attack again. This is the point that the jealous, snobby sisterhood is missing - and why THEY are the ones being misogynistic

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Harry and Meghan have only been back for two weeks and their return is already a pure farce. This is the lesson they still refuse to learn: JAN MOIR

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The Russians are coming, and thanks to Burnham we're all doomed!

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The King has slapped down Harry and Meghan... but this is the biggest revelation from his public letter. Finally, someone's put them in their place: SARAH VINE

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QUENTIN LETTS: Ed Mil's eyeballs bored in on his nose. His fingers trembled. He was tremendously wound up...

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My friend called me after seeing the balaclava march in Dover. I was shocked by her reaction... until she told me about her clash with a group of foreign men outside her business. We need to wake up: AMANDA PLATELL

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NADINE DORRIES: I have been reviled, abused and even stalked during my political career. But nothing has left me feeling more violated than becoming a victim of this horrifying new crime

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ANDREW NEIL: With the bond markets on one side and the Left on the other, even Harry Houdini couldn't escape the bind that Healey is in

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Huge, costly and decrepit... this slime-stained warship is a metaphor for Trump - and just one example of the US's bad strategy and bad leadership: PETER HITCHENS

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AMANDA PLATELL: Tess Daly's holiday snaps with Vernon Kay prove something that all couples (and exes) must heed

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ANDREW NEIL: 25 years on from 9/11, America's $6TRILLION War on Terror has achieved little beyond stoking new forms of Islamist barbarity

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RICHARD EDEN: Night Oasis Noel gave The Sun's editor a slap

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PETER HITCHENS: Why I now rejoice when my trains are late. There's an unexpected upside

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Don't write off Meghan's return to acting just yet. Everyone has missed the point of her 'cynical PR stunt': AMANDA PLATELL

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ANDREW NEIL: Newsnight looks set to be axed after becoming a shadow of its former self. This is why it calls into question the entire future of the BBC

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Stop Labour's Mansion Tax Stasi crawling Through The Keyhole

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ROBERT HARDMAN: Move over Binface... this obscure election could be the one to supercharge a Tory revival - and stop the loony-Left Greens taking over crime-hit south London

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STEPHEN GLOVER: Most of us are fed up to the back teeth with Harry and Meghan. Why should we have to fork out for their protection?

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PETER HITCHENS: Cheshire police once boasted how it caught Lucy Letby - but now its chief has quit, with no mention of the controversial case. This is why I think it's all starting to crumble at the force...

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STEPHEN GLOVER: Is it too much to hope that Prince Harry will accept that people who don't like the Press in this country won't be allowed to destroy it?

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Everyone has missed the appallingly selfish truth about Harry and Meghan's return. I fear for the future: AMANDA PLATELL

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ANDREW NEIL: America's national debt has hit $40trillion. This is why it's bad news for ALL of us

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BORIS JOHNSON: The day a royal aide let slip to me the secret strategy that is key to Harry and Meghan being embraced by The Firm

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The real reason my friends Harry and Meghan are finally coming back to Britain - and how their new life will look: BRYONY GORDON

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The idea that his little brother is going to swan back in to steal William's thunder must be enraging: SARAH VINE

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DAN HODGES: Farage's authority over his party is under threat - from a man who should be his great champion

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AMANDA PLATELL: Why I am now more convinced than ever that Harry's Californian love affair is over...

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NADINE DORRIES: Lucy Letby's 'boyfriend' gave evidence that helped put her in jail for life. Now he's dead... these are the questions that must be answered

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Let's hose down these shameless MPs and venal water bosses

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SARAH VINE: Jason Arday's death is a tragedy that should force everyone to pause for reflection... starting with those who thrust him into the spotlight for their own ends

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DAN HODGES: Reform have peaked, Labour's honeymoon won't last and Trump's war is set to tank the economy. All the signs are pointing to one thing...

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QUENTIN LETTS: Andy Burnham used a nuclear-war emergency system on our phones to nag us about having barbecues. He's using fear for political ends... I know where this leads

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ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: My brilliant new trick to hide my greys - the top of my head looked like a snowscape, but I've discovered a stylish and cheap solution

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Don't write off Farage - there's life in the political pirate yet!

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Never mind the barbecue ban and start mowing Britain's dangerously overgrown verges and parks. It's time to admit it's tree huggers and eco-zealots who are truly destroying the environment

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RICHARD EDEN: The two telling details in my colleague's '10 years of Meghan' piece... and its painful reopening of old wounds for the 'Sussex Survivor Squad'

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I'm approaching 40 and I've only ever had one true friend. Now, I've finally found a bond with another mother - and I know I'm going to mess it up. This is the stark reality of trying to make new pals in midlife: ANNABEL FENWICK ELLIOTT

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Labour's confected fury over the Tories hiring a reformed racist is sheer hypocrisy: DAN HODGES

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AMANDA PLATELL: People traffickers appear to be using a sinister new ploy in their villainous trade... and Burnham can't even begin to understand. His reaction shows how he's lost the plot already

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ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: My new husband thinks I'm trying to kill him...

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AMANDA PLATELL: Why Jason Arday's story reminds me so much of Meghan's...

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ANDREW NEIL: Our £3trillion national debt is a powder keg. One false move could ignite it. And I fear our new PM is out of his depth

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Soft justice madness leaves us all less safe

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His woke admirers wanted to believe Arday so much that if he'd claimed to be Shergar they'd have given him a lump of sugar: JAN MOIR

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How my gammy knee op could save the NHS millions: RICHARD LITTLEJOHN

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Restore is a busted flush. But here is how the Right CAN unite to win: NADINE DORRIES

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SARAH VINE: To even write this feels taboo. But we need to talk about how so many Western women are being sexually assaulted and murdered by migrants from misogynist cultures

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QUENTIN LETTS: Eyelashes Andy touched his chest to signal sincerity, adopted the intimate tone of a daytime TV presenter and peered through those Leslie Crowther spectacles like a living euphemism

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DAN HODGES: The young women helping Burnham to win the TikTok battle with Reform

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LAURA TROTT: The soft bigotry of low expectations dressed up as progressive reform

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AMANDA PLATELL: Adam Ramsay-Peaty's latest display of self-indulgence was so inappropriate - especially in front of Madeleine McCann's parents. There's only one way for him to turn this round

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Angela Rayner is a scrounger, grifter and shameless hypocrite. I had to return MY severance pay when I resigned as a minister - so why hasn't SHE handed back her £17,000? NADINE DORRIES

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SARAH VINE: Andy Burnham is clueless about the most serious issue of our times: Not Russia, China, climate change or nuclear war, but a chilling new threat that could wipe out mankind

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PETER HITCHENS: The Tories should be careful saying that Andy Burnham will drag us back to the 1970s. I was there - and it was a far BETTER time

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How ludicrous to live in a land where the King pardons a long dead killer but we can't give Lucy Letby a fair hearing, writes PETER HITCHENS

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SARAH VINE: I was the worst-dressed woman in Westminster... so I know how hard it is to be thrust into the spotlight

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QUENTIN LETTS: Miliband is a gauche and dangerous nincompoop, demonstrably ill-suited to this acutely sensitive job

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NADINE DORRIES: Right now, Andy Burnham will be 'drinking from the firehose' - but he'll be out by May

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QUENTIN LETTS: Eyelashes Andy lifted his prominent jaw and spoke without notes, lectern or discernible policy. His memorised lines were nothing more than fluff and boiler-plate baloney...

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PETER HITCHENS: Ordinary citizens are the ones who need greater protection - not MPs or famous people

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QUENTIN LETTS: The only divine insight that struck me during Eyelashes Andy's nebulous and sentimental speech was the unwelcome suspicion that Labour has lumbered us with another thudding bore

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