Gareth Southgate’s men will be going all-out for a win when playing Belgium on Thursday, if only we could say the same for Theresa May's team, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN. ...read
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Monty Python and the Holy Grail of Brexit
Who needs Monty Python when we’ve got Brexit? It would be virtually impossible to invent anything more surreal than the latest high farce in Parliament. The tortuous path out of the EU resembles a cross between the movie Monty Python And The Holy Grail and the Dead Parrot sketch. Also starring Westminster and Oxbridge-educated Dominique Grieve as the Upper Class Twit Of The Year. In the original film, Theresa May would have played King Arthur, leading her Round Table on a quest for the elusive Holy Grail of Brexit, while her enemies throw increasingly bizarre obstacles in her way. ...read
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The Bad Boys of Brexit spoke for Britain this week: Just get on with Brexit — we’ll be in the bar!
Richard Littlejohn discusses the scandal surrounding the Brexit negotiations this week. He doesn't think he's ever known a time when the posturing political class have been so far removed from the people they are supposed to represent ...read
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- Auf wiedersehen! Rival fans rejoice as world champions Germany are dumped OUT of the World Cup after humiliating 2-0 defeat to South Korea (so they won't beat England on penalties this time)
- Up to 40,000 British Ticketmaster users may have had their personal and payment details stolen by hackers in security breach which the company didn't notice for five months
- Tory Brexit civil war deepens as MPs slam Remainer ministers for colluding with businesses to plot 'Project Fear Mark II' in a bid to force May to keep close ties with the EU
- Business Secretary Greg Clark is accused of ‘communicating a sense of panic’ as he urged big firms to keep speaking out against plans for a clean break with the EU
- Father believes death of his son, 15, is linked to 'psychological horror game' Doki Doki Literature Club as coroner issues warning over self-harming, suicide and violent scenes
- Gambling with children's lives: Experts’ warning over bombarding youths with adverts in ‘uncontrolled social experiment’
- Young father, 21, hanged himself from a tree outside his probation office after being banned from seeing his three-month-old son following his conviction for texting a schoolgirl
- Ten times Martina's pay? I'm worth it: John McEnroe hits back at critics of his BBC pay packet for Wimbledon
- Police finally arrest travellers, including teenager, 'who invaded historic Thwaites Brewery and turn site into 'a disgusting mess'
- Is this the end of the clothes size lottery? Major retail chains including ASOS, Next, New Look and River Island back creation of universal sizing
- Wanted - strict nanny with Victorian values: Couple's online advert for a £55,000-a-year childminder says their son is only allowed an hour’s play a day
- Bank of England officials run up £1million of expenses bills for everything from business class flights to stationery
- Adios French! Spanish will become the most widely-taught foreign language in Britain within a decade
- Online travel agents are luring holidaymakers with cheap flight deals before 'ramping up the prices and demanding more cash' using 'questionable tactics'
- Uber wins right to carry on operating in London for 15 months as judge agrees car-sharing service is 'fit and proper' after firm claimed it had changed its culture
- Corrections & clarifications
- Britain BUCKLES in the heat! Roads melt, gritters hit the streets and tap water turns white in 'extreme' conditions as temperatures soar to 90F (and someone forgot to bring the suncream)
- Auf wiedersehen! Rival fans rejoice as world champions Germany are dumped OUT of the World Cup after humiliating 2-0 defeat to South Korea (so they won't beat England on penalties this time)
- Passenger dies after plane is forced to divert to Portugal due to 'horrific' smell caused by his flesh-eating disease that made other travellers vomit
- Mother sues holiday giant Thomas Cook after her daughter, five, 'was abducted by stranger in hijab' while at Turkish hotel's kids' club
- Kim Jong-un has a high-ranking army officer killed by firing squad for giving his troops extra food rations
- Drug dealers are sentenced to death on a sports ground in front of hundreds of people by a Chinese court before being executed by firing squad
- 'We did it for Britain's 3.3m cohabiting couples!': Heterosexual pair WIN right to enter a civil partnership rather than get married after landmark Supreme Court ruling
- Police are called to TWO more 'distressed and panting' dogs locked in separate sweltering hot cars during 86F heatwave
- Married City worker 'raped 18-year-old girl after dragging her down an alleyway when she was thrown out of a nightclub for being too drunk'
- Wanted - strict nanny with Victorian values: Couple's online advert for a £55,000-a-year childminder says their son is only allowed an hour’s play a day
- 'Love u so much baby': Heartbroken wife's tribute to bus driver, 45, who was killed along with pensioner, 76, in horror crash between double-decker and lorry on A47
- William's West Bank walkabout: Prince strolls through Ramallah following his historic handshake with Mahmoud Abbas as he tells Palestinians 'you have not been forgotten'
- Horror as woman, 63, chokes to death at a Beefeater pub in front of shocked lunchtime diners
- Baby died after her mother's pain relief patch became attached to her skin as pair slept in the same bed and drug stronger than MORPHINE got into her system
- Michael Jackson's father Joe has died aged 89, just days after being hospitalized with stage four pancreatic cancer
- Couple who forced their son, 11, to join in sex acts with them 'to keep him on the straight and narrow' because they thought he was gay are jailed for a total of 15 years
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