In The Telegraph's weekly Peterborough diary column, @christopherhope offers an unparalleled insight into what's really going on at Westminster and beyond
Nigel Farage is looking for a new London club after the East India, his home for the past 30 years, wouldn’t give him a place to smoke.
“I have resigned from the club because they refused to provide proper smoking facilities"
The former Doctor Who and Thick of It actor Peter Capaldi was star-struck to spot the Kinks’ singer Ray Davies in a London restaurant.
He tells @christopherhope : “He’s written some of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard, and I thought I’m going to tell him that."
Cabinet ministers have been behaving like teenagers and creating their own “memoji”.
Both Michael Gove and Sajid Javid have made the emoji characters – which are loosely based on their own likenesses – on their mobile phones to send out in text messages
💃We had the fun (and drama) of the Musicals special; now it’s time to get serious. We’re heading into the Strictly endgame with just six couples remaining and the quarter-finals coming up next week.
🌟 Storm Arwen hit the Strictly ballroom, with dark clouds descending over the actress’s paso doble. An ominous sign? Ayling-Elis struggled to find the moody, controlling character. The end result was a well-delivered number though lacking some of the required power and attack.
🕺Walker's rumba split the judges. Ballas said Walker's hip action was “subtle”. Erivo praised Walker for his improved lines, while Craig said he didn’t have any hip action from the actual steps of the rumba, he just added a few wiggles
Two people in Essex and Nottinghamshire have been found to have tested positive for the new variant, with officials carrying out mass testing in affected areas to identify further cases
Amid warnings over the transmissibility of the new variant, the Government announced that four additional countries were added to the red list: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Flights to and from the countries will be temporarily banned.
Finding out that Christine too has autism has shone a completely different light on their lives.
And what they have learnt is something they have bravely decided to share in a documentary that airs on Wednesday night on BBC One
It follows McGuinness’s own journey to understand his fears around having autistic children, from visiting a school that integrates children with autism into the mainstream, to meeting with footballer Paul Scholes, whose 16-year-old son also has autism
On the evening of 20 August 1989, Jose and Kitty Menendez sat down in the living room of their Beverly Hills mansion and watched the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
They snacked on some blueberries and cream.
And then, at some point that evening, they were brutally killed
The alarm wasn’t raised until the couple’s two sons, Lyle, 21, and Erik, 18, returned just before midnight to the family home from a nearby movie theatre
‘Who was the person who was shot?’ the 911 dispatcher asked.
🔴The delta variant is of greater concern to the UK than the new Covid mutation, England's chief medical officer has said amid rising international fears about the omicron strain
Prof Chris Whitty said ministers were right to take "precautionary" border measures to slow the arrival of the new variant into Britain