17+ hour, 31+ min ago   (741+ words) By GLEN OWEN POLITICAL EDITOR Nigel Farage is today celebrating an astonishing £72million windfall after receiving two donations of £36million in the space of 24 hours. Mr Farage's Reform UK announced on Friday evening that it had received the first £36million donation — the largest…...

2+ hour, 9+ min ago   (1384+ words) President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York has sold for nearly $2 million after a million-dollar makeover transformed the once-neglected, cat-ridden property. The five-bedroom house in the affluent Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens was purchased by an unknown buyer in…...

4+ hour, 52+ min ago   (538+ words) By KEMI BADENOCH - LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION Andy Burnham has bottled it yet again. He hasn’t made a single significant decision on defence, on welfare or on oil and gas. All things he promised he would sort during his leadership…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago   (250+ words) The BBC has been criticised over its coverage of the 9/11 anniversary after focusing on Islamophobia rather than the terrorism behind the outrage. One Westminster source said it was ‘like starting D-Day memorials by remembering the plight of the Nazis’. Radio…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago   (652+ words) By PETER HITCHENS, COLUMNIST AND COMMENTATOR It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the lumpy stormtroopers deployed on our streets (including the street outside our offices) last week by the new national figure ‘Tommo’. It would…...

5+ hour, 31+ min ago   (778+ words) Inheritance tax is likely to be abolished if Kemi Badenoch becomes Prime Minister, party sources have told the Mail on Sunday. The move – which the sources said will happen if 'the sums can be made to add up' – would strike…...

5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (1308+ words) By SARAH VINE, COLUMNIST Almost ten years ago, the #MeToo movement began with a post on Twitter (now X) by the American actress Alyssa Milano, sharing her experiences of sexual assault and asking other women to do the same. Within hours,…...

5+ hour, 36+ min ago   (1786+ words) The Government owes a lot of people a lot of money – nearly £3trillion and rising at pace. This financial year alone, Chancellor John Healey is expected to borrow around £115 billion, two and a half times the amount the Exchequer sought out…...

5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (786+ words) By JEFF PRESTRIDGE, MONEY EDITOR AT LARGE There should be good news this week about the state pension which will delight those in receipt of it, especially pensioners who are struggling to cope with the cost of living crisis. It…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (644+ words) The car-crash aggression of Thursday morning's Today interview between Emma Barnett and Kemi Badenoch bothered me, stirring up both personal memories and misgivings about current media. If it had gone well – by which I mean the interview was civil, forensically…...