ROBERT COLLS: What English flag-waving tells Europeans baffled by Brexit 

There’s a beautiful moral simplicity about sporting contests. Win or lose. In or out. So how nice it is that England, which voted in 2016 to leave the European Union, has done so well in a competition that’s called Euro 2020. After the Brexit vote, the outgoing EU Council president Donald Tusk warned that this … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: Boris Johnson’s personal finances? They’re as orderly as his hair

The decision by the Commons Committee on Standards is a relief for Boris Johnson – and a victory over Westminster’s ‘sleazebuster’ Kathryn Stone. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Miss Stone, who had investigated the Prime Minister’s 2019 holiday with then-fiancee Carrie Symonds to the Caribbean island, had ruled that Boris broke the rules that say MPs must … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: Boris Johnson’s personal finances? They’re as orderly as his hair

The decision by the Commons Committee on Standards is a relief for Boris Johnson – and a victory over Westminster’s ‘sleazebuster’ Kathryn Stone. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Miss Stone, who had investigated the Prime Minister’s 2019 holiday with then-fiancee Carrie Symonds to the Caribbean island, had ruled that Boris broke the rules that say MPs must … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: A sss-neaky bite that’s got to hurt!

Most of us think of the loo as, among other things, a refuge from the stresses, if not the strains, of everyday life.  It is somewhere we can sit down and relax in complete privacy, confident that nothing will disturb us. I’m sure that’s what an unnamed 65-year-old Austrian man assumed as he locked the … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: A sss-neaky bite that’s got to hurt!

Most of us think of the loo as, among other things, a refuge from the stresses, if not the strains, of everyday life.  It is somewhere we can sit down and relax in complete privacy, confident that nothing will disturb us. I’m sure that’s what an unnamed 65-year-old Austrian man assumed as he locked the … Read more