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Lionesses who put the divas of tennis to shame in PLATELL'S PEOPLE

On Wednesday, I did something I almost never do. I stayed up late to watch a football match. Around 2.4 million Brits did the same, as it happens, cheering on the England Women’s World Cup team in...

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George Osborne's chance to transform Britain  with Tory budget

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: George Osborne is no longer encumbered by the Liberal Democrat millstone, and will deliver the first exclusively Tory budget in 20 years from a position of huge strength.

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PETER HITCHENS says the best way to tackle terror is to keep calm and carry on

Politicians react to terrorism much as parents might respond when their lisping tiny offspring come home from sex-ed classes and ask them to explain what lesbians do, writes PETER HITCHENS

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George Osborne to deliver a true blue Budget says JAMES FORSYTH IN THE...

It will be blue, with no yellow round the edges. He has told friends that you can only justify doing two Budgets in a year if you do big things.

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Messages of hate that defy belief says Mail On Sunday Comment

From time to time we obtain evidence of how deeply we have failed to communicate the beliefs and values which have, over the centuries, made this such a unique society.

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I am sick of tennis 'girlies' in skimpy whites says RACHEL JOHNSON

When it comes to Wimbledon fortnight, I put a line through the diary – and would trample over both my grandmothers’ graves to go to SW19, writes RACHEL JOHNSON.

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What Labour's Clement Attlee can teach today's party writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK

There is a glaring contrast between Clement Attlee's Labour of July 1945 and the shambolic, tragi-comical irrelevance of the party in July 2015, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK.

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Adultery's wrong but so is giving up on your marriage, AMANDA PLATELL writes

The homepage of the Ashley Madison website is displayed on an iPad, in this photo illustration taken in Ottawa, Canada July 21, 2015. Canada's prim capital is suddenly focused more on the state of...

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Jeremy Corbyn with Tom Watson as his deputy would make Labour the Tom and...

If the polls are right, Jeremy Corbyn (pictured) is going to be Labour leader and Tom Watson his deputy – that's Tom and Jerry, writes political biographer STEPHEN POLLARD.

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Our latest weapon in the war on terror? Organic free-range tripe says PETER...

Is David Cameron, pictured, the man who will destroy freedom in order to save it? His strange, wild speech on Monday suggests that he is.

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QUENTIN LETTS who defended the House of Lords calls for an Upper House cull

Mr Cameron has put forward a list of 40 names for potential peerages - but they're likely to include party donors, failed politicians and other flunkeys and chums, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

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LIZ JONES: Want to stop the slaughter of wildlife? Then start with gulls 

The way people treat gulls is despicable, writes LIZ JONES. I agree with the outrage over the death of Cecil the lion, but at least he had a lovely life, which is more than can be said for our animals.

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Don't blame Walter Palmer who shot Cecil the lion, we are all guilty

My father (an environmentalist, conservationist and one of the first jolly green giants) would always say that he’d elect to save the last pair of mountain gorillas in Congo ahead of his kids.

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French are to blame for Calais migrant crisis and we can't trust them

The French police have for weeks now simply been looking the other way as the migrants mount their nightly assaults on the British freight haulage industry, writes ANDREW ROBERTS.

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How long before the police stop investigating murder? PETER HITCHENS writes

The police force now can’t even be bothered to turn up and investigate burglaries, and its chief spokesperson openly says so, they are busy doing something else, writes PETER HITCHENS.

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Great British Bake Off is SO boring, AMANDA PLATELL writes

Yes, I know 9.3 million people watched the show when it returned on Wednesday night. But I find the Great British Bake Off BORING! Not just a tad tedious, but yawn-makingly dull.

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Judges put freedom of expression over 'human rights' of wealthy celebrities

Despite an injunction granted by Mrs Justice Laing (pictured) against naming them, the identity of the 'prominent and successful sportsman' who cheated on his future wife is known to millions.

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Keep my dog or husband? It's a close-run thing says SARAH OLIVER 

Columnist Sarah Oliver on the bizarre existence of pet-nups - and whether it is something work looking into, freeloading Beatrice, the 'legacy' of London 2012, and charity's Queen of Compassion.

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We can defeat terror with a quiet resolve says MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT

The discovery of a plan to unleash death, maiming and terror amid VJ Day commemorations in London demonstrates that the direct risk to this country from Islamist fanatics is real and urgent.

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PETER HITCHENS says if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Tories will be close to disaster

Smug Tories who rejoice at Jeremy Corbyn’s seeming march towards the Labour Party leadership should be careful what they wish for, writes PETER HITCHENS.

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I've been to Hell on Earth - and it's called Heathrow says LIZ JONES

At the airport, I encounter that Exocet on humanity – the blonde tot being pulled along by dad astride her little pink suitcase, which is made of Kryptonite, and aimed at your shins, writes Liz Jones.

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The Jeremy Corbyn joke that isn't funny any more 

Even now, with Jeremy Corbyn having an apparently insurmountable lead in the polls, it remains difficult for those of sober mind to picture this hard-Left socialist throwback as Leader of Her...

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Is Ashley Madison the biggest cheat of all? By PLATELL'S PEOPLE

Ashley Madison richly deserves its current humiliation. Having exploited matrimonial trust for commercial gain, how perfectly piquant that the company itself has now lost consumer trust.

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It's not Chilcot they are afraid of, it's the risk of jail says ANNE MCELVOY 

The Chilcot report into the intelligence analysis, military decisions and post-battle planning over Iraq has already taken six years – and there appears to be no end in sight.

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MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Tardy Chilcot is destroying public's trust 

The Chilcot Inquiry is rapidly becoming part of the scandal it was supposed to expose. Britain’s political and official classes simply cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.

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If Pink Viagra is the answer, the question is really stupid, says RACHEL...

A company called Sprout has developed a pill called Addyi – instantly dubbed ‘pink Viagra’ – for ladies who don’t fancy making love to their partners.

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British 'education' is a con says PETER HITCHENS or haven't you learned that...

The giant fraud that is Britain’s education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves, writes PETER HITCHENS.

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Human Rights act imperils the British nation

As the Mail reports today, the latest case backed by human rights lawyers involves the farce of a dangerous Moroccan sex attacker allowed to cheat deportation to preserve his right to a family life.

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8m migrants? Can I bring a friend? Asks RICHARD LITTLEJOHN

Eight million. Doesn’t sound much, especially if you say it quickly. Sting’s just sold his Central London pad for £19 million, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.

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BBC Proms to celebrate their own shows but Bake Off's turn could be tasty...

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The Bake Off Prom could be tasty viewing. Mel and Sue dancing to the Sugar Plum Fairy as saintly Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood bake would surely be a crowd-puller.

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Look at the rat-like features of the man in this photo. Do you think he...

This week, to my huge pride and joy, I’ve discovered that someone has put into production a special edition of the game, under the title: Guess Who? The Utley Rules.

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A nightmare to shake the world's conscience 

Throwing hideous light on one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of our age, the bodies of 71 men, women and children have been discovered in an abandoned lorry on an Austrian motorway.

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Donald Trump becomes US President and Jeremy Corbyn makes it to Number 10

What if the unthinkable happened? Donald Trump becomes U.S. President and Jeremy Corbyn makes it to Number 10. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall at that summit meeting?

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David Cameron's Asda wellies shows the sheer idiocy of our obsession with...

The story of David Cameron’s Wellington boots sums up all you need to know about the most headbanging, ruinously jagged fault line in British politics.

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QUENTIN LETTS on Daniel Craig's lofty condemnations of James Bond

Chester-born James Bond star Daniel Craig is branded a 'twep' by QUENTIN LETTS after agonising in an interview about 007's political correctness

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Why do we tell women lies about childbirth? asks SARAH VINE

Women are still being sold a politically correct fantasy of childbirth that, far from liberating mothers, just adds to the tremendous pressure they already feel to be perfect in every way, writes...

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Queen Victoria was not a greater monarch than Elizabeth II says ROBERT HARDMAN

On Wednesday there will be yet another amendment to the royal record books. And, this time, it’s the big one as Queen Elizabeth surpasses Queen Victoria's time on the throne, writes ROBERT HARDMAN.

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT on the migrant crisis in Europe

In the words of the Chancellor, George Osborne, there is no person who would not be appalled by the ‘very distressing’ picture of little Aylan Kurdi, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach.

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JAN MOIR: My sympathy for whining Cheryl is wearing thin 

Forget the collapse of the Chinese stock market, the iniquities of our justice system, migrant children dying on beaches. Someone has said a Bad Thing about wee Cheryl and she wants it to stop.

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Aylan Kurdi's death was tragic but it was not our fault, RICHARD LITTLEJOHN...

If this stark picture graphically illustrated the tragic human cost of the tidal wave of migrants trying to enter mainland Europe, the reaction to it has been deranged, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.

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Don't shut your eyes to the picture of Aylan Kurdi says PIERS MORGAN

One pin-sharp image of a three-year-old boy washed up on the shoreline and we stop and shudder in collective horror, writes PIERS MORGAN.

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Migration crisis and the big EU question in DAILY MAIL COMMENT

This was a bad day for David Cameron’s hopes of keeping Britain in the EU with the the scenes at a Budapest station (pictured), evacuated by Hungarian police to stop a stampede by thousands of migrants.

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This was no tragedy but another Iraq would be in DAILY MAIL COMMENT

This paper sheds no tears for British citizen Reyaad Khan and his two fellow Islamic State fighters killed by an RAF drone in Syria on August 21.

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Labour's leadership election examined by RICHARD LITTLEJOHN

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Those in the Labour leadership election are the real face of the New Left in Britain, a rancid collection of single-issue nutcases, 'anti-austerity' mentalists and Toytown Trots.

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Jean-Claude Juncker's EU vision is another own goal 

Campaigners for Britain’s exit from the EU will be quietly pleased after yesterday’s vainglorious ‘State of the Union’ address, in which Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker outlined his vision of...

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If a man can't compliment a woman, the human race is in deep trouble says...

When Alexander Carter-Silk took the liberty of expressing admiration for Charlotte Proudman's LinkedIn picture most normal woman would have thought 'What a nice man', writes SARAH VINE.

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Only a retrial can fix Marine Alexander Blackman's injustice, DAILY MAIL...

Day Two of our campaign to secure a retrial for Marine Sergeant Alexander Blackman, pictured, and the disturbing questions mount over his conviction.

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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Men are the REAL oppressed sex today 

One minute Charlotte Proudman was an unknown 27-year-old barrister finishing a PhD on female genital mutilation and the law. The next she was at the centre of a global media storm, hailed a martyr by...

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RACHEL JOHNSON on Alexander Carter-Silk's attempt to court Charlotte Proudman

When it comes to barrister Charlotte Proudman, we learn that hell hath no fury like a #fearless feminist complimented, writes RACHEL JOHNSON.

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PETER HITCHENS: Labour has a real lefty...so can we have proper conservatives?

Do not underestimate Jeremy Corbyn, pictured. Labour’s Blairites lie dead and dying all over the place because they made that mistake.

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