Robert Hardman

6 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman

All this week, the spotlight had been fixed firmly on the events of May 1945 and Victory in Europe. Last night, the King concluded Britain’s 80th anniversary commemorations by swinging that beam through 180 degrees and directing it forward to the future, urging today’s world leaders to ‘rededicate’ themselves to the noble ideals of the wartime generation.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman

From the Palace balcony to the far end of The Mall, from toddlers to centenarians, the message was as one: Eternal gratitude to those who, in Winston Churchill's words, 'drew the sword against tyranny'. In May 1945, the Prime Minister had been at George VI's side come that great moment of national rejoicing – Victory in Europe, forever to be known as VE Day. Eighty years on, King Charles III was joined by Joy Trew, 98, a great-grandmother from Bristol.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman

For a town that has just caused a genuine political earthquake – while also setting a new record for electoral nano-margins – Runcorn seems remarkably underwhelmed. The rest of Britain, and particularly that part of it which inhabits the much-derided 'Westminster bubble', might still be in a state of shock. Those who delivered victory for Reform here in Thursday's by-election shrug and tell me that there was no alternative.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman

More than a decade after bringing much of London to a standstill, one of Britain’s best-loved artistic displays has returned to its spiritual home. Those glorious poppies are back at the Tower of London. Ahead of next week’s national VE Day events, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, a new display is being installed at one of Britain’s most popular visitor attractions. It will be formally unveiled next week.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman

He might be standing beneath the White Cliffs of Dover in his Union Jack socks, deploring multi-culturalism, calling for a 'Minister for Deportation' and pledging to erase all forms of wokery from every branch of the public sector. Yet Nigel Farage is also presenting himself as the new Keir. Not Sir Keir Starmer, of course, but the man after whom the Prime Minister was named.