MELANIE PHILLIPS: Mary Berry, star of BBC TV's The Great British Bake-Off, is a career woman who overcame polio and went back to work a few weeks after giving birth to each of her three children. Yet she says she is 'stunned' that women now get a year off after having a baby and don't even have to tell their employers whether they are coming back or not. No wonder she thinks feminism is a dirty word and wants nothing to do with 'women's rights'.
With the yawning gap in achievement between state and private education, it is easy to see why Nick and Miriam Clegg are tempted to send their 11-year-old son to a fee-paying school.
DAVID BLUNKETT: Why, you may ask, should anyone be in the slightest bit interested in a House of Commons vote tomorrow on the apparently arcane issue of reform of constituency boundaries?
The BBC's reports of the recent bloodbath in Algeria have described the killers as 'militants' rather than 'terrorists'. In one report, the word was used 12 times, writes ANDREW PIERCE.
The son of a white English woman and absent Ghanaian father, Adam Afriyie rose from a poverty-stricken childhood on a South London council estate to make his first million by the time he was 35 - a stark contrast to the Old Etonian David Cameron. Despite his inspiring personal background story, the sudden appearance of Afriyie as a leadership 'stalking horse' has caused widespread mirth among senior Tories.
Boris Johnson took a shine to glamorous French IMF boss Christine Lagarde, flirting with her in Davos ahead of his night out at a pizza restaurant with David Cameron
MELANIE PHILLIPS: The really appalling thing about Ward’s remarks is his hijacking of the Holocaust to reverse the position of Arab aggressors and their Jewish victims.
PETER HITCHENS: Beyoncé gets into trouble for miming The Star Spangled Banner, but David Cameron is lavishly praised for faking an entire policy on live TV.
DOMINIC SANDBROOK: In 1975, Harold Wilson conned voters with his own referendum that simply left us in hock to Brussels. It couldn't happen again... could it?
Scottish independence could make it easier for Russian submarines to loiter off the north British coast, eavesdropping on our security services, says a Whitehall expert.
If people don't protest, and make like Mary Beard, pictured, the 58-year-old Professor of Classics at Cambridge, who recently appeared on Question Time, there will be no end to trolling.
PETER MCKAY: Just when he must have thought he had settled his party, David Cameron is the subject of a 'plot' to oust him as Tory leader. Wealthy Tory MP Adam Afriyie is reportedly ready to stand against Cameron in the event of a backbench revolt forcing the PM to resign. Afriyie insists he is loyal to Cameron, but when asked by a reporter if he was planning a leadership bid, he replied: 'This is a very naughty conversation. You are being very mischievous.'
Labour’s claim to represent ordinary people fell to pieces when we realised that Ed Miliband had no such intention, says NIGEL FARAGE.
David Cameron managed to rebut accusations, re-affirmed his pro-Europeanism, made it clear that their was discontent about Britain's EU membership - and all in one rousing speech.
MARTIN SAMUEL: £32,000 of public money is to be flushed away sending 40 sixth form pupils from Skegness Academy, plus six teachers, on what has been termed the 'trip of a lifetime' to New York.
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The first tremors of Tory revolt against the Prime Minister leave him with much to ponder and work to do if he wants to remain in power beyond 2013
The BBC censored a recent repeat of a classic Fawlty Towers episode on the grounds that some of the 1970s dialogue would be considered offensive to a modern audience, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Accepting a question from one particular lady at Davos, David Cameron groaned audibly after realising he'd picked the BBC's Stephanie Flanders.
Sir Jeremy Heywood was at the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee. The subject under discussion at yesterday's meeting was 'ministerial reshuffles', writes QUENTIN LETTS.
David Cameron not only set out a vision for Britain’s relationship within the EU, but set out a compelling vision for the EU in the wider world, writes LIAM FOX.
'No, don't do it'
Cries of teenager, 16, stabbed to death in Pimlico street, London, by gang armed with knives and swords
Grandmother who saw GP twice a week for SIX MONTHS with stomach pain was told not to worry...
then dies of bowel cancer just weeks later
Queen abdicates in favour of her middle-aged son!
(No sorry, Charles, not THAT queen, the one in Holland-Queen Beatrix)
37 jailed killers walk out and flee
Alarm over security at open prisons as figures reveal 175 inmates absconded last year
A murderer on the guest list
Disturbing wedding photo shows killer standing feet away from relatives of the victim he buried in a shallow grave
At least 245 die in Brazilian nightclub fire
Death toll may be even higher as bodies pulled from the wreckage at the Kiss Club, in Santo Maria, southern Brazil
'Where's the justice?'
Ben Kinsella's family blast £20,000 payout to killer's father over murder hunt raid in which police injured his ankle
His was a strong speech, a bold speech, and almost certainly the best of David Cameron’s life, delivered with a passion so often missing from his performances, writes MAX HASTINGS.
There is no use pretending yesterday's GDP figures were anything other than disappointing. The economy, after only a single quarter of growth, contracted by 0.3 per cent in the final three months of 2012.
We do not yet know Mr Cameron’s negotiating strategy or much of the detail of the powers he wishes to reclaim. But what is certain is that the stakes could not be higher for the PM.
The Government has announced its third round of Armed Forces cuts, imposing 5,300 job losses as part of a programme to reduce the British Army to a strength of 82,000 by 2017, writes MAX HASTINGS.
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