While one understands the future king's desire for privacy and his determination to have the normal family life he is denied as a royal, isn't this all going a bit far, asks AMANDA PLATELL.

While watching the Manchester derby, Rachel Johnson's eye was glued to the names on the hoardings and the names of the companies advertising in the breaks.

John Major will make a speech this week warning of the grave risk to the Union if Britain ends up with a Labour Government propped up by the Scottish National Party, writes JAMES FORSYTH.

Funny how little we have heard from British liberals about a rather nasty outbreak of anti-immigrant violence this week, writes PETER HITCHENS.

The Tories have a week to wrest back the initiative in this Election campaign and ff they haven't done this by next Sunday, Tory discipline will begin to crack, writes JAMES FORSYTH.

Labour MP Keith Vaz used a manifesto meeting to lecture Ed Miliband (left) - who beat brother David (right) to become the party's leader - on nepotism and lack of diversity in the party.

For four decades, music fans and historians have argued over the messages hidden in Don McLean's (pictured) American Pie. Now, RICHARD LITTLEJOHN can reveal its true meaning.

Why does it matter what Ed got up to in his past life or in his family dealings? The answer is: it matters a very great deal, for it gives a rare unvarnished look at his true character, writes AMANDA PLATELL.

This week, BEL MOONEY advises a woman whose daughter want to sell the house they share and live on her own - a year after her husband died suddenly next to her in the night.

Strip away the bright lights, the broadcasters' histrionics and the glitzy game show podiums and what did Britain actually learn from Thursday night's TV election debate?

This country is now in the grip of a permanent inquisition into the past. It can never really end, or find out the truth, because there is no objective test of it, writes PETER HITCHENS.

In a hard-hitting article, Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. NAIPAUL has branded Islamic State as the Fourth Reich, saying it is comparable to Adolf Hitler's regime in its fanaticism and barbarity.

Now Elton John is a multi-millionaire, surely he's big enough to put the row behind him for the sake of the mother who nurtured that colossal talent. And doesn't he also have a duty to do so?

A small part of me - actually not such a small part - nevertheless understands why Clarkson went berserk. He was hangry...very hangry, writes DOMINIC LAWSON.

A decade ago Trevor Phillips incensed the liberal establishment by telling them the great multiculturalism experiment had sent Britain 'sleepwalking into segregation'.

The BBC are not a secret private empire, nor can they be a law unto themselves. Even private business, in the modern world, has to submit itself to severe scrutiny from the outside.

Actually it does matter that the two main party leaders are forced to face each other in televised debates, each of them alone and cut off from aides and scriptwriters, writes PETER HITCHENS.

Kathleen Wyatt, pictured, proves that no one is quite as mercenary, or has such a keen sense of entitlement, as an old hippy with the whiff of free money - not love - in her nostrils, writes JAN MOIR.

The reckless military adventures of second-rate Western politicians have created a generation of Muslim fanatics bent on revenge. Truly, the world is in a fragile state. So what lessons can Britain learn?

Please permit me not to care about 'Jihadi John', whose participation in a series of gruesome videos has made him a useful frontman for his murderous accomplices, writes PETER HITCHENS.

I wish more women realised that nobody cares that much, actually, what we look like or whether we fall flat on our faces. Women worry too much about looking right and getting it wrong.

Why doesn't Stephen Fry spread the save sex message though his four million Twitter followers. If you don't want to get HIV, use condoms. After all, they're already free on the NHS.

Did you know that the Copenhagen killer, Omar El-Hussein, had twice been arrested (and twice let off) for cannabis possession? Probably not, writes PETER HITCHENS.

Home Secretary Theresa May has rightly acted to stop police misusing their powers under the ill-drafted Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to probe the confidential dealings of journalists.

Vladimir Putin is a bully and the bitter lessons of history show that the only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them.

The problem is that David Cameron and Nick Clegg unthinkingly bought into the Blair doctrine, which holds that democracy can be implanted via the barrel of a gun, writes STEPHEN GLOVER.