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The heir to the throne has learned what love means

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

ONCE upon a time, there was a prince whom everyone thought was a bit dotty and even though he was married to a beautiful young princess, everyone thought he was happier talking to the plants that grew in the palace garden.

The NHS must be shielded from foreign freeloaders

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

IF public faith is to be retained in the National Health Service then it is absolutely essential that its resources are protected from plunder by people pitching up from overseas.

It's the economy, stupid

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THE gay marriage row has done more damage to Conservative Party unity than any law in living memory. The legislation was unnecessary and unexpected and pursued in the most high-handed fashion, leaving many of the party’s most steadfast supporters bitterly disappointed and upset.

A mother's moving pride

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

NOTHING can compensate Kerry Ashworth for the loss in combat of her heroic son Lance Corporal James Ashworth at the tender age of 23.

Being against gay marriage does not make you a bigot

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

HOMOSEXUALITY, in the words of Oscar Wilde’s lover Lord Alfred Douglas, is the “love that dare not speak its name”. We have come a long way thankfully in the century and a bit since Wilde was condemned to Reading gaol over their relationship.

Savings must be shielded from the greed of Brussels

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

ANYTHING that makes buying and selling financial assets more costly is the enemy of those building up retirement funds. And this is certainly the case with the European Commission’s new financial transactions tax.

No need for a civil war

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

IT CANNOT be easy being Prime Minister in a coalition Government that is attempting to deal with the largest public sector deficit in modern history.

Don't put your shirt on it

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

THERE is a strong resemblance between the new England football jersey and that worn by West Germany in the Sixties and Seventies.

Why has Cameron turned against his own supporters?

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:07:00 +0100

NOT SINCE Geoffrey Howe stuck the knife into Maggie Thatcher in 1990 and brought about her downfall have we seen the Conservative Party in such turmoil.

We are all now paying for Labour’s welfare ghettos

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:55:00 +0100

ONE THING is shockingly clear from the worrying report on welfare ghettos: taxpayers and an army of unemployed are paying the price for years of ineptitude and profligacy by the last Labour Government.