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Crispin Blunt MP sees off attempt to deselect him by a mammoth margin of 5-1
In a move that illustrates that Theresa May’s description of the perception of the Conservatives as the “nasty party” is wrong, Crispin Blunt successfully beat a campaign to block him standing as the party’s candidate at the next election yesterday. (more…)
A diamond, an Aston and a startup are indicative of market madness
In the last twenty-four hours, three extraordinary priced items have hit the headlines. The first, a diamond, sold at Sotheby’s in Geneva for £51.6 million ($83 million); the second, an unrestored Aston Martin made £131,000 ($209,000) at an auction in Harrogate and the third was the reported £1.9 billion ($3 billion) offer made by Facebook for the app Snapchat. (more…)
A call to reinstate Charles Morgan to the board of Morgan
Our feature on the parallels between the ousting of Sir Bernard Docker from Daimler in 1956 and the removal of Charles Morgan from the board of the eponymous motor manufacturing firm his family founded has drawn huge volumes of traffic. (more…)
Ex-jailbird Vicky Pryce employs a former prisoner as her PA
Vicky Pryce plainly has no desire to fade from the limelight. Having served two months of an eight month sentence herself, the shameless ex-wife of Chris Huhne has employed a female former prisoner as her personal assistant. (more…)
As Savile’s chauffeur Dave Smith is found dead, we suggest his curse is coming into effect
Jimmy Savile’s driver Ray Teret appeared in court on Saturday charged with historic sex offences and now another former chauffeur, Dave Smith, has been found dead. Savile once told Louis Theroux that he’d “take everybody down” if he was accused of anything himself.
The “little people” that surrounded Savile, such as the two drivers mentioned above, are certainly part of this promised fallout. Why then, one must ask, have this mammoth paedophile’s more powerful associates yet faced any form of questioning? It is time they were brought in also.
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How can arrest of Ray Teret be anything other than related to the activities of Jimmy Savile?
Jimmy Savile’s driver, Ray “Ugli” Teret, appears in court this morning charged with sex offences against fifteen teenage girls and possessing an indecent image of a child. That police claim this to be “unrelated” to the abuse carried out by the disgraced broadcaster is frankly just odd. (more…)
Owen Jones is wrong to argue that Vicky Pryce shouldn’t have been locked up
In today’s edition of The Independent, Owen Jones, the author of Chavs, argues that “[Vicky] Pryce and her husband should never have been locked up for their crimes”. He is wrong. (more…)
The axing of one of the world’s most iconic vehicles is a disgrace
The very last Land Rover Defender will roll out of the company’s Birmingham factory in December 2015. Killed off after 67 successful years, the loss of “The Best 4×4 By Far” thanks to the EU’s emission legislation is another nail in the coffin of Britain’s freedom. (more…)
Latest Madeleine McCann stories leave more questions than answers
As Gerry and Kate McCann sue a former Portuguese police officer over his book about the 2007 disappearance of their daughter, Madeleine, the Daily Express have revealed that a barrister has evidence that the child is still alive. As has become the norm with this saga, both the revelations in court and the Express story actually just leave more questions than answers. (more…)