STEPHEN GLOVER: This hollow, dispiriting document is so threadbare it's almost funny. I give it three years before Labour are as hated as the Tories are now

As I listened to Sir Keir Starmer's speech ­yesterday, I asked myself how long it will take the country to hate Labour as much as it now hates the Tories.

ANDREW ROBERTS: Churchill's decision to fight on when Hitler offered peace was his greatest act of statesmanship - and any Reform candidate who says otherwise should be sacked

Would Britain have done better to stay out of the Second World War? Ian Gribbin, the Reform party candidate for Bexhill and Battle, certainly thought so as recently as July 2022.

JAN MOIR: Wes Streeting, his threat to throw me under a train - and his pompous, self-serving non-apology

Wes Streeting and me. We go back a long way. We go back nearly fifteen years, me and Wes, so we do. We have never met yet still here we are trapped as one.

Giving your child a smartphone is like gifting them a hand grenade, says BEL MOONEY. Here are the terrifying studies that show what it's really doing to their brains

It's never been easy to be young. Feelings of rebellion are normal when young bodies change and minds develop. It can be a painful process of slammed doors, shouting and sullen silence.

How Covid, Russian misinformation and inflation fuelled the march of Europe's populist Right - and what the EU elections mean for global security, writes expert DR GABRIELA BORZ

DR GABRIELA BORZ, a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, has analysed the situation across the continent for MailOnline to look at the key geopolitical issues moving forward.

STEPHEN GLOVER: What do all those stars who love to denigrate Brexit Britain have to say now their beloved Europe has fallen for the hard-Right?

Will the rise of the hard-Right in Europe lead progressives to question their conviction that civilisation thrives south of Calais, whereas Brexit Britain is narrow and inward-looking?

Why the great British pint is the one thing the modernisers still haven't dared try to abolish 200 years after it officially came into being...

No service of thanksgiving is planned. It is a celebration which is about to pass Britain by - which is odd given that this is one anniversary which was made for raising a glass.

QUENTIN LETTS: Planet Green is dappled by sunlight like an advert for vegetarian bacon, but they want to stop you owning things

QUENTIN LETTS: The Greens create a whizzy atmosphere of wholemeal innocence. It's like living in an advert for vegetarian bacon.

QUENTIN LETTS: Rishi Sunak looked perky, entirely undented by the obliteration everyone says he's facing

Rishi Sunak published his election manifesto at Silverstone race track, Northamptonshire.

SARAH VINE: It's not austerity or poverty that creates killer children, it's neglectful parents - and society needs to hold them responsible

As two 12-year-old boys are convicted of stabbing innocent bystander Shawn Seesahai, 19, inevitably there are questions as to how two children could have committed such a vicious crime.

NADINE DORRIES: Even in death, the wonderful Dr Michael Mosley has taught us all one last valuable lesson...

Last summer, on holiday in Majorca, I suffered a horrible incident that frightened me - and made me realise I'm no longer a spring chicken.

On everything from Net Zero to wokery and immigration, Starmer will be way out of step with his beloved EU, writes ANDREW NEIL

The surge of the Right in the European Parliament elections means it must have dawned on even Starmer that the EU we voted to leave in 2016 is very different from the one he wants to cosy up to.

QUENTIN LETTS: The Lib Dems' launch was one of the most emotively manipulative pieces of saccharine hucksterism I've had thrust down my gullet

QUENTIN LETTS: Party leader Sir Edward Davey launched his election manifesto today with a personal, tear-jerking speech.

Fast-Track Approvals Bill: Mining sector body decries ‘hysteria’ in debate

It comes just days after thousands marched in Auckland against the bill.

DOMINIC LAWSON: Rishi's decision to leave the D-Day events early was a serious error. But for Nigel Farage to suggest that the PM is 'not patriotic' is truly vile

Nigel Farage is a master of political phrase-making. The majority shareholder of Reform UK Ltd understands better than anyone how to use words to trigger sentiments - from anger to enmity.

Macron's decision to call a snap election is a desperate throw of the dice... and the real winner in all of this could be Russia, writes MARK ALMOND

Emmanuel Macron is gambling not only his own career but the stability of all Europe on this desperate throw of the dice.

ANDREW PIERCE: Top historian Anthony Seldon to tell story of Conservative woe about their last 14 years in power

Rishi Sunak might not like it, but next month's General Election is as much a vote on the past 14 years of Tory rule as it is a judgment on his own short premiership.

PETER HITCHENS: Labour moans about smears - but it produced the nastiest election film I've ever seen

I have still never got over the nastiest political broadcast I have ever seen in a free country. I watched it by accident, as I flopped down in front of the TV after a long day on the 1997 campaign trail.

SARAH VINE: Rishi, more than anyone, had a duty to honour our last few defenders of democracy. He failed - and I can't forgive him

One of the most poignant moments of this week's D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations came as the actor Martin Freeman recited the words of veteran Joe Mines in Ver-sur-Mer.

My 48 beautiful bloodhounds have never hurt a fly. But I dread their fate if Starmer's class warriors ban all hunting with dogs, says IVAN MASSOW

My dogs - all 48 of them - are a huge part of my life. My heart breaks when I lose one of them. Every animal lover will understand the pain of that.

Bridgerton storyline debate: Why whirlwind romances are not reserved for thin women

NY Times: An opinion piece questioned a Bridgerton character’s desirability. Fans hit back