Mandrake
10 August 2022
Tom Newton Dunn and Liz Truss find it’s not good to Talk
Rupert Murdoch's interviewer of choice had a set-to with the Tory leadership favourite on his little-watched TV channel
Read the full article09 August 2022
Truss’ Foreign Office ahead in the data breach stakes
There is one area in which Rishi Sunak leads Liz Truss - the lack of data breaches reported in his former department
Read the full article09 August 2022
Nervousness at Guardian over culture of misogyny
An investigation into the conduct of a leading columnist has widened into how the paper dealt with previous complaints
Read the full article08 August 2022
Who leaked the video of Boris Johnson’s smooth moves?
A witch hunt is under way for the person who leaked footage of the caretaker PM dancing to Sweet Caroline
Read the full article08 August 2022
The Johnsons land on their feet – on Bamford’s boat
While they never got to enjoy the prime ministerial superyacht they wanted taxpayers to shell out for, Boris and Carrie are rumoured to have found refuge on another ultra-luxe pleasure cruiser instead
Read the full article08 August 2022
Rishi proves to be a PR disaster, again
His image makers are trying, and failing, to invent him a personality
Read the full article02 August 2022
Turmoil at The Guardian as top columnist is investigated
Insider shares ‘great disappointment’ at how claims against leading writer were dealt with
Read the full article02 August 2022
Could Geordie Greig beat Dacre into the Lords?
The younger man succeeded Paul Dacre as editor of the Daily Mail. Now he might pip him to a peerage
Read the full article02 August 2022
PR needed for pie-in-the-sky project
Genomics England is looking for a head of internal communications amid whispers of a sell-off
Read the full article01 August 2022
Truss’s track record is far from impressive
Truss and those around her haven't exactly reached great levels of success, even outside of governing, over the years
Read the full article01 August 2022
The curious case of the absent spouse on the campaign trail
Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have opted to more or less pass themselves off as singletons during the leadership race
Read the full article01 August 2022
The Evening Standard is in a dance of death with Lebedev
Unless an owner with extremely deep pockets comes forward, the publication may not make it to Christmas, one source tells MANDRAKE
Read the full article26 July 2022
David Steel’s long goodbye
Delays on the rail network saw the former Liberal leader's long-delayed farewell party delayed even longer
Read the full article26 July 2022
Carrie’s boss’s business sinks further into the red
Damian Aspinall's Aspers UK Holdings ran up a £16.2m loss on £13.4m in sales in 2021
Read the full article26 July 2022
Murthy’s law of diminishing returns
The former chancellor's wife has been hit with a £5m loss at Acamar Films, in which she holds 2,000 shares through her investment arm, Catamaran Ventures
Read the full article25 July 2022
Changemaker Hunt failed to take his own medicine
In lamenting NHS failures, the former Tory leadership hopeful seems to have forgotten who was in charge for six years
Read the full article25 July 2022
Gove fumbles yet another leadership election
With his backing for Kemi Badenoch, the former levelling up secretary once again demonstrated his reverse Midas touch
Read the full article25 July 2022
Dacre’s peerage could see musical chairs at the Mail
If the Daily Mail chief heads to the House of Lords, expect big changes at the titles he leaves behind
Read the full article12 July 2022
Šefčovič: It’s time we got Brexit done
The ongoing impasse over the Northern Ireland protocol is in no one’s interest, the European Commission's vice president has said
Read the full article12 July 2022
Paul Dacre wants a peerage at any cost
A desperate editorial in the Daily Mail shows how Dacre is Boris Johnson's last reliable cheerleader on Fleet Street
Read the full article12 July 2022
Did theatrical farce finally drive Johnson over the edge?
Patrick Ryecart's new play Carrie on Boris is near-the-knuckle stuff
Read the full article11 July 2022
The curious and convenient disappearance of Michael Gove
MANDRAKE wonders why Michael Gove was nowhere to be seen ahead of his call for Boris Johnson to resign
Read the full article11 July 2022
The mix-up in a Maxwell documentary review
In Ed Power's review of Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster, MANDRAKE was misquoted
Read the full article11 July 2022
Carrie may soon be on the job hunt
The strangely silent spokeswoman for the Aspinall Foundation may soon find herself in need of another role to fill her time
Read the full article05 July 2022
Has Rothermere put his foot down?
Or, has there been an outbreak of journalistic integrity at the Mail? It seems some hacks are no longer prepared to blindly support the prime minister
Read the full article05 July 2022
Boris Johnson’s remaining supporters
The Sun’s Harry Cole continues to fight the prime minister’s corner. Dominic Cummings, meanwhile, finds this tiring
Read the full article05 July 2022
Matt Hancock’s curious stateside spending
The sums of money the disgraced former health minister spent suggests he did not go alone - but there is no mention of Gina Coladangelo
Read the full article05 July 2022
Blair’s conference saw the bigger picture
The former prime minister’s Future of Britain conference was a reminder of why politics must be better
Read the full article04 July 2022
Starmer thinks he can make Brexit work, but some of his MPs disagree
Rupa Huq recently wore a T-shirt with the words “Brexit is toxic: We demand a people’s vote” written on it
Read the full article02 July 2022
There’s bad news in the Mail for Boris Johnson
Owner intervenes as previously loyal paper is expected to criticise PM
Read the full article30 June 2022
Allegra Stratton steps into a new role
Some are seeing this as a demotion, but anything is a step up after working for Johnson
Read the full article28 June 2022
Murdoch and Gove will always have each other
The levelling up secretary spent Rupert Murdoch's summer party as the nonagenarian's personal pastry picker
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