MAFS: Beck Zemek argues with Jake Edwards for switching a light on

Married at First Fight! Bride from hell Beck Zemek is branded ‘Godzilla’ as she argues with Jake Edwards for switching a light on for 20 seconds Do you have a story about a MAFS participant? Email [email protected]  By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:33 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 21:36 GMT, 3 … Read more

SAM LEITH argues technology has made plotlines more ingenious than ever

One of our foremost contemporary novelists, Ian McEwan, is fretting that recent advances in technology have had an unexpected downside: they have made it harder for novelists to write plots. Speaking in a Q&A recently, he said that given a smartphone-addled world in which the characters ‘all know everything, as it were, and can always … Read more

Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit in 2017

Harvard University Professor Abraham Loeb, pictured in an undated photo, claims in a new book that aliens visited earth in 2017 but scientists ignored it  Aliens already visited earth in 2017 and scientists ignored it, a top astronomer from Harvard has claimed.  Professor Avi Loeb, the longest-serving chair at the Ivy League college in Cambridge, … Read more

Book Scotland A Rewilding Journey contains amazing images and argues for an even wilder Scotland

That Scotland’s landscapes are among the most seductive on the planet is without question. And the photography in book Scotland: A Rewilding Journey, written by Susan Wright, Peter Cairns and Nick Underdown, is a spectacular celebration of them, capturing lochs, mountains, valleys and islands shaped by ancient volcanoes, glaciers and weather over aeons. The tome … Read more

It would be so callous to make the elderly wait for Covid-19 jab, argues Dr MARTIN SCURR 

It would be so callous to make the elderly who are most at risk from coronavirus  wait for vaccination, argues Dr MARTIN SCURR By Dr Martin Scurr For The Daily Mail Published: 23:06 GMT, 6 January 2021 | Updated: 00:10 GMT, 7 January 2021 Dr Martin Scurr (pictured) said: ‘The vaccine debate cannot be reduced … Read more

The military should be drafted in for vaccine rollout, DAVID BLUNKETT argues

A serious crisis demands serious expertise. When foot-and-mouth disease swept across Britain 20 years ago, the Government had no hesitation in sending in the Army. Their response was magnificent. With implacable efficiency, from the squaddies to the top brass, they set about bringing a chaotic, dangerous situation under control. One man above all symbolised the … Read more

Covid-19 restrictions should be eased for the festive period, argues Professor KAROL SIKORA 

There are reassuring signs from ministers that a relaxation of Covid restrictions for part of the festive period will go ahead. It is a pragmatic decision and the right one. My own Christmas routine has been perfected during 46 years of marriage. On Christmas Eve I shall drive to London’s Smithfield Market to buy a … Read more

ESTHER RANTZEN argues that Covid-19 restrictions should remain in place for Christmas

The best gift we can offer our families this Christmas is to refuse to meet them. That’s what I’ve done, and although it wasn’t easy, I believe it’s time for us older people to be brave and firm, and tell our families to stay away. And if the young argue, just ask them: do you … Read more

NHS GP Dr RENEE HOENDERKAMP argues that our new lockdown tiers make no sense 

Just imagine that this time last year someone had described to you what Britain would look like in December 2020. They would tell of a country in which vast swathes of the population had spent endless months locked down at home. Where one business after another was heading for the wall, where children were being … Read more

Former Labour MP IAN AUSTIN argues there is no point trying to compromise with extremists

When Keir Starmer was elected Labour leader seven months ago his first promise was to ‘tear anti-Semitism out by its roots’. Anti-Jewish racism had poisoned the party under his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn and the new leader vowed he would restore Labour’s reputation as a decent party. Sir Keir was determined to introduce all sorts of … Read more