The Oxfordshire villages that fear Boris Johnson’s new planning laws

Among those enjoying an idyllic life in the Oxfordshire countryside, Boris Johnson‘s sweeping reforms to the planning system today will come as a major concern. For a four-year battle has been taking place over the proposed Chalgrove Airfield development for a new market town of 3,000 homes and four schools. But the new draft laws … Read more

135,000 face the axe amid fear of ‘economic Armageddon’

The scale of the Covid-19 jobs bloodbath has been laid bare as a Mail audit found 135,000 jobs in Britain are facing the axe. Analysis of the threat of redundancies since the virus took hold has revealed 230,000 jobs are set to go both here and abroad at more than 100 of Britain’s biggest firms. … Read more

The one lesson I’ve learned from life: Gloria Estefan says if fear creeps in – don’t give it energy

The one lesson I’ve learned from life: Gloria Estefan says if fear creeps in – don’t give it energy Gloria Estefan, 62, found fame with the Miami Sound Machine in the 1980s  She has learned to focus on what she wants to happen, rather than her fears  Singer who lives in Florida, recalls channeling the … Read more

ANDREW ROBERTS: Dissenters live in fear and serious debate is silenced by the woke mob

It gets more ludicrous with every passing day – and more sinister. Take the case of Professor Patricia Simon, from Marymount Manhattan College in New York, who made the mistake of failing to be sufficiently enthusiastic in the course of a Zoom meeting. Accused of daring to nod off during discussion of an ‘anti-racist framework’ … Read more