Charging £85.00 for the virtual consultation and an added £475.00 for the pills themselves, the decision to make it permanently easier to kill unborn children by such means is a further boon to the Marie Stopes business model.

Mr. Ali, the Old Bailey court heard, had duped Sir David into meeting him at his surgery by giving a false address within the MP’s constituency.

Nobody could escape the merciless nature of Waugh’s satirical wit, but he was more than a mere humourist. Alongside his gift for comedy, he also possessed an awareness of a fateful void in the modern world.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe touched down at Brize Norton, a Royal Air Force station based in Oxfordshire, in the early hours of Thursday morning to be greeted by her family.

The temporary measure, having spent nearly two years on the statute books, was due to expire at the end of this month.

The problem with complacent ruling elites is that, to justify their dominance, they are forced to resuscitate old terrors and to make up new ones. They rely on phantom enemies against which they can pose as our protectors.

Initially, the Home Office was only showing generosity to Ukrainians with immediate family residing in Britain. But changes to that more restrictive policy have since been announced.

The Lords’ recent victory constitutes a setback for those who had sought a definitive long-term solution to the ongoing migrant crisis on the southeast coast of England.

Conservatives, if they still go by that name, should not be bashful about re-asserting the university as a place of free thought and academic inquiry. If the prime minister wants to be taken seriously, he must guarantee that the bill immediately resumes its journey to the Queen’s desk.

Hayek’s ingenious arguments against a centrally run economy are equally devastating to the idea of a centrally run bio-security state.

If de Beauvoir’s elders can be accused of mistaking repression for virtue, then she and her intellectual peers were blind to the fact that over-indulgence is not freedom, but, instead, ranks among the most irresponsible forms of neglect.

Roberts does not refrain from criticising George, both for his political missteps and for his tendency to be slow in acknowledging them. But overall, Roberts has painted a masterful portrait of a patriotic, diligent and cultivated monarch who was periodically struck down by mental illness, worst of all during the tragic last decade of his life.