Mister Toad and, for that matter, the late Harold Macmillan would be horrified. Cars are about to measure our driving skills. Renault has announced that its new models will soon rate our motoring abilities out of a score of 100. An onboard computer will deduct marks for various misdemeanours such as lane-jumping, burning too much rubber, heavy braking and 'not paying enough attention'. Drive too close to that Sunday-afternoon crawler in front of you - while quite possibly beeping your horn and bawling 'get out and milk it, mate!' - and you will lose marks. Screech up to a roundabout and take the first exit with a wheel or two off the ground? ...read
Quentin Letts for the Daily Mail's recent articles
QUENTIN LETTS: Number 10's gleaming black door seemed almost to hypnotise Sir Keir... while the flag-waving Starmerites sized up the citadel
Sir Keir Starmer , alighting from his prime ministerial Audi just after 12.30pm, approached 10 Downing Street with a slow, heavy tread. The rain-spattered street, in a dank echo of Blairism, had been packed with flag-waving Labour activists. Lady Starmer shimmered beside him, slender in red. Hundreds of camera lenses were gawping and whirring at the couple from the far pavement where the press pack was assembled in tiers. ...read
QUENTIN LETTS: After the milkshake, this dairy encounter was more congenial
QUENTIN LETTS: Power already seemed to have begun ebbing from Rishi Sunak when he and his wife Akshata voted at Kirby Sigston village hall, North Yorkshire. Hand-in-hand under a cloud-scudding morning sky, the Sunaks looked almost holidayish. He was still in that blue knitwear top while she was in a floaty floral dress and snazzy red shoes that seemed to scream 'thank heavens we'll soon be shot of Downing Street'. Few photographers were in attendance. It was a little more than one bystander with a Kodak Instamatic, but the Press turnout was tellingly smaller than those Mr Sunak used to attract. By next month he'll be able to streak down Northallerton high street and no one will turn an eyelash. Two hundred and forty-three miles south, a different story: banks of snappers and TV crews, many from abroad, assembled in Kentish Town to see Sir Keir and Lady Starmer arrive to cast their ballots just before 10 am. Security was heavy, members of the public being corralled into pens like sheep at the Three Counties Show. ...read
July 2024
June 2024
- Novak Djokovic accuses Centre Court crowd of 'DISRESPECT' during straight-sets win over Holger Rune in awkward post-match interview live on BBC... but did he confuse boos with fans chanting his opponent's name?
- Rishi Sunak appoints 'interim' shadow Cabinet as Tory chair Ric Holden and Lord Cameron quit after disastrous election meltdown... with infighting between left and right wings ramping up
- ANDREW PIERCE: Meet the second most powerful man in Britain: He cut his political teeth purging extremists on both the Left and Right. Now Starmer's 'friend and enforcer' is at the heart of No 10
- RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Keir Starmer spent years trying to reverse Brexit. Now he's won power with far fewer votes than Leave, shouldn't we re-run the election?
- UEFA make final decision on referee appointment for England's Euro 2024 semi-final with the Netherlands after assigning a convicted match-fixer to the clash in Dortmund
- Germany's midfield great Toni Kroos says 'uncontrolled' immigration has 'overwhelmed' his homeland and insists his daughter is safer living in Spain as he retires after Euro 2024 defeat
- Amber Heard's 'private investigator' reveals his shock over unwavering support for Johnny Depp after being hired to dig up dirt on the actor for defamation trial in new book
- Fifteen of my friends in their 40s and 50s have left their husbands. This is the real reason EVERYONE is divorcing... and why your marriage is at risk without you realising it
- Holidaymakers hunker down for the night at Heathrow after torrential rain and storms across the Atlantic forced dozens of flights to be cancelled
- I thought I'd moved into my dream home in Notting Hill but my door knocks constantly, strangers want to look inside and influencers trample my flower boxes. This is the hell of living in an Insta-famous house...
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- How much is your luxury bag really worth? As Milan police bust Dior's supplier which was making brand's £2,500 It tote for just £44, we reveal the real value of your designer arm candy
- British Airways passenger who suffered brain damage after slipping on spilt Baileys at Heathrow while carrying a tray of Starbucks coffees wins up to £4MILLION in a payout
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- ANOTHER Democrat publicly calls for Biden, 81, to drop out and reveals his replacement... as White House erupts in chaos over Parkinson's expert visits
- Taylor Swift, Oprah and a 'blitz primary': Well-connected Democrats including a former Obama and Clinton advisor issue bombshell memo detailing wild plot to replace Biden
- Prince Harry's 'stunned' reaction to backlash over his 'sporting Oscars' gong that honours American war hero shows how 'remote and out-of-touch' he has become as he faces a losing PR battle in the US, royal expert warns
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- As Donald Trump weighs his VP pick, new Daily Mail poll reveals who VOTERS want to see on the GOP ticket
- Alice Munro's daughter reveals dark family secret weeks after the literary icon and Nobel laureate's death
- Texas televangelist Joel Osteen is roasted as Hurricane Beryl slams Houston seven years after Hurricane Harvey scandal
- Woman is left stunned at 'crazy' price of El Pollo Loco drive-thru meal: 'I went home and made dinner'
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- Porn star Jesse Jane's cause of death revealed more than six month after she was found dead alongside boyfriend Brett Hasenmueller inside their Oklahoma home
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- Fugitive drug lord arrested after his wife makes fatal Instagram error
- Karine Jean-Pierre admits Biden has seen a neurologist three times but refuses to say why Parkinson's expert visited the White House in chaotic press briefing
- Hunt for NYC killer on the loose after woman's body is found in plastic bag on busy Manhattan street
- Biden's staff give him detailed instructions with pictures and large font that tell him how to 'enter and exit a room' during planned events
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