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There is too little questioning either of the process to choose the next prime minister or scrutiny of the half-baked proposals and vacuous slogans the candidates are bringing to the table

A desperate editorial in the Daily Mail shows how Dacre is Boris Johnson's last reliable cheerleader on Fleet Street

Supporters of the outgoing PM share Trump-style claims of a coup organised by the media

In Ed Power's review of Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster, MANDRAKE was misquoted

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

The Sun’s Harry Cole continues to fight the prime minister’s corner. Dominic Cummings, meanwhile, finds this tiring

The former prime minister’s Future of Britain conference was a reminder of why politics must be better

Owner intervenes as previously loyal paper is expected to criticise PM

Assange and his fans make it difficult to take his side. But this doesn’t change the fact that this prosecution is dangerous and unjust

Some are seeing this as a demotion, but anything is a step up after working for Johnson

At the next election, Labour must hit back against the Tories’ myths rather than playing into them

The levelling up secretary spent Rupert Murdoch's summer party as the nonagenarian's personal pastry picker

Had Lord Rothermere not relieved Geordie Greig from his editorship then the paper would’ve published the scoop

The New European has led the way on the tale of the disappearing scoop. But for supposedly bold national newspapers it has been an exercise in timidity

MANDRAKE is assured they are opening their country retreat for charitable causes rather than tax advantages

The prime minister always referred to the Telegraph as his “real boss”. Will they soon be welcoming him home?

Over the past decade Lionel Shriver has made a name for herself as a one-woman corrective to what she perceives as an excessively “woke” culture in this country

A trip to Portugal for veterans of the Daily Mail was more like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine

His review of Legally Blonde made it clear he wasn’t pleased about the casting of “fuller-bodied, nonbinary actors”

There is an ongoing inquiry into the running of The Aspinall Foundation, who Carrie works for when she's not organising “strategy meetings” in Downing Street

Hancock’s somewhat modest outside earnings haven't stopped him enjoying life with the woman he found it so difficult to socially distance from during lockdown

These days reviewers are rarely journalists but individuals with axes to grind

The levelling up minister may have, finally, come out in support of the prime minister, but he’s also just accepted his first donation since 2021

Back in 2019, a source told MANDRAKE that the prime minister started work late, looked dishevelled and treated the Downing Street flat like “student digs”

Melvyn Bragg’s autobiography is an affectionate homage to his formative years. But he’s got plenty to say about the culture secretary too

As Sue Gray reports, speculation is mounting as to which and how many necks Boris Johnson will offer to the block in order to save his own

The war in Ukraine is seeing the reputations of Olaf Scholz's two immediate predecessors reassessed, and not for the better

The newspaper recently asked what the point of the governor of the Bank of England was

Good wishes on my birthday do not make me feel any better about getting older. Besides, there were two other important anniversaries last week both involving leaders of the Labour party

Almost 1000 people gathered in Claridge's to hear the non-dom billionaire declare how the Daily Mail was “calling out the charlatans”

The Daily Mail’s circulation may be down but Dacre's finances are up

Since Gove stepped down as a member, the value the Dorneywood Trust's investments have increased by £933,000