Mandrake

In this week’s diary column, the Queen is not amused by Liam Fox and Mandrake’s hopes for a Brexit television drama look as though they may become a reality. The Queen’s wish to bow out gracefully from next month’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting – expected to be her last in charge – is being […]

In this week’s diary column, the editor of the Today programme is spotted at lunch with an unholy trinity. My picture shows a lady named Sarah Sands supping with Nigel Farage, Rupert Murdoch and Liam Fox at a party held in south London not long after the EU referendum result. Miss Sands happens to have […]

In this week’s diary column, EU workers find a champion in the Home Office and the plan is laid out for the next phase of the Leveson inquiry The European Union’s managerial class has found an unlikely champion in the Home Office. Mandrake hears that Amber Rudd’s department has not taken kindly to Amnesty International’s […]

In this week’s diary column, Liam Fox longs for his drinking partner and Rebekah Brooks lets bygones be bygones Rebekah Brooks. Picture: PA/Yui Mok – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images If Liam Fox looks a trifle morose in the photograph above – a reader snapped the International Trade Secretary downing beers at Munich Hofbräuhaus with some […]

In this week’s diary column, Farage’s wealth remains a mystery and the BBC finally acknowledges The New European. One question Nigel Farage could usefully be asked when he makes his 32nd appearance on Question Time this week is how much money he is actually trousering each year. The accounts that the former UKIP leader, pictured, […]

In this week’s diary column, the BBC continue to overlook The New European and fracked off playwright digs out Boris Johnson. James Chapman, former chief of staff to David Davis, says that the Daily Mail has to be ‘prised’ out of the hands of John Humphrys as the Radio 4 Today programme goes on air […]

In this week’s diary column, Lib Dems distance themselves from comedy stalwart and Tim Shipman considers a new Conservative ‘dream team’. Don’t mention the EU Referendum After parting company with his third wife Alyce Faye Eichelberger and any discernibly funny scripts, John Cleese’s relationship with the Lib Dems appears to have petered out, too. The […]

In this week’s diary column, Cameron welcomes the plaudits and Gina Miller suppresses her political endeavours. Cameron wields the airbrush With an ongoing bloodbath in Libya and Brexit among his dubious achievements, no wonder David Cameron wants to go down in history as the man who legalised same-sex marriage in the UK. The former prime […]

This week, The New European revives Tim Walker’s Mandrake diary column – three years after the much-feared political diary was shut down by the Daily Telegraph. Cameron takes on the paper tigers Although it’s hard to feel enthusiasm for David Cameron’s forthcoming memoirs – it’ll be like hearing from an ex after a messy break-up […]