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Defiant Brits celebrate and commemorate VE Day in lockdown: Prince Charles leads solemn two-minute tribute, Red Arrows fly over Buckingham Palace and a deserted London as people make the best of a very special bank holiday Defiant Brits across the nation are...

If you ever visit Karlsruhe, you could easily mistake the building housing the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BverfG), the highest German constitutional court, for the refectory block of some dreary new university. Dreary or not, on Tuesday that court took a major decision which trenchantly and...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a son. A spokeswoman for the PM and his partner said both mother and baby are "doing very well". It is understood Mr Johnson, who has just recovered from coronavirus, was present throughout the birth, at an...

Not only is it St George's Day today, but it's also Prince Louis' second birthday. Photographs of the fifth in line to the Throne taken by his mother Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, show him with...

Every tragedy is an opportunity in disguise. At least, that’s how those most vehemently opposed to Britain leaving the EU seem to view coronavirus. To them, the global pandemic is just one more opportunity to battle against Brexit... The ghouls using Covid-19 to bash Brexit Their exploitation...

Brexit is done. Britain has gone. So here's a thread about Italexit, the next big thing...

He did his bit for his country in the jungles of Burma. Now, 80 years on, he's doing his bit for his country again... TOM'S TRIUMPH I’m a big fan of the Queen… I’d love to meet her, says Captain Tom after knighthood petition passes 800,000 Mike Ridley Jonathan Reilly 16 Apr 2020 The Sun...

On the 75th anniversary of the British liberation of Belsen, here's the story of the horror and depravity that confronted the soldiers...

Like vultures, they swoop. The Britain-bashers. The still bruised Remainers. The woke elites for whom Britain is little more than a former Empire, still riddled with racism and drunk on nationalism. All of these ghouls spy in the Covid-19 crisis a chance to put the boot into Britain... The sick...

The anti-Boris and anti-Brexit loonies don't believe that Boris was really in hospital... The rise of the centrist conspiracy theorists The ‘Boris wasn’t ill’ crowd are truly unhinged. SPIKED 14th April 2020 Spiked One of the alarming things of recent times has been the mainstreaming of...

As Boris Johnson recovers from Covid-19, he will undoubtedly be thinking of an earlier epidemic, says Oxford classicist Armand D'Angour - the plague that hit Athens in 430 BC, and killed the prime minister's hero, Pericles... Coronavirus: What Boris Johnson's Greek hero teaches us about...

How cool is this? A video of normal street life at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, April 1897. With added sound effects.

Here, we explore a few of the more notable figures – and how they coped… How did people cope with ‘lockdowns’ of the past? And were they really all so productive? Plenty has been made of the great feats achieved by Isaac Newton and William Shakespeare during historical periods of quarantine...

Fear is the insatiable beast that feeds on our worries and uncertainties. Most of us are refusing to feed the monster, but sadly the same cannot be said for other sections of society... Don’t let fear win Why Boris must get well, and why Britain must persevere. BRENDAN O'NEILL EDITOR 7th...

Chickens and brown hares were introduced to Britain in the 5th century AD and were worshipped as gods rather than eaten, archaeologists claim. Instead of being seen as food, the creatures were associated with deities, and buried with care and intact, found...

Last night’s Newsnight, and in particular Emily Maitlis’s staggeringly hypocritical and deeply patrician mini-lecture to the nation about life in lockdown Britain, took the biscuit... The staggering hypocrisy of the BBC Emily Maitlis’s patrician lecture on last night’s Newsnight was nauseating...

Brexit and coronavirus are destroying the EU. And it only has itself to blame... The EU’s top scientist no longer supports the EU Professor Mauro Ferrari has resigned in protest at the EU’s response to the Covid-19 crisis...

Britain firmly believes in the autonomy of the individual and the right to free movement, it was said. The Chinese Communist Party’s dictatorial actions were held up as exemplary evidence of the differences between our two countries and our two systems. But what about now? Are we all...

Britain's World Wars II Forces' Sweetheart and national heroine Vera Lynn is once again lifting her nation's morale to help it through a crisis. Vera, now 103, added her celebrated voice to The Sun’s campaign to raise £1million for NHS workers bravely putting their lives on the line for us...

How Boris is taking lessons from his hero Churchill: ANDREW ROBERTS on how the Prime Minister is using Winston's playbook to guide him through the coronavirus crisis By Andrew Roberts For The Mail On Sunday 4 Apr 2020 Britain's great national hero Churchill (L) and present...