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2 days ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman
For more than three hours, on a freezing February night, the 12 men from the Special Air Service had been lying behind a low, threadbare bit of hedge on the edge of a rural chapel car park near the Northern Irish village of Clonoe. According to intelligence reports, this was where the East Tyrone Brigade of the Irish Republican Army were going to assemble the largest and deadliest weapon in the IRA’s very considerable armoury and mount it on the back of an open lorry.
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4 days ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman
At one end of Whitehall, the Government was solemnly announcing plans to add the direct action group Palestine Action to the UK's current list of 81 proscribed (banned) terrorist organisations. At the other end, its supporters were doing their best to muster a show of strength –while they still can.
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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman
Standing alongside the British and American flags, as the Band of the Grenadier Guards played a faultless Star-Spangled Banner, a US President received the warmest of welcomes back to a sweltering London yesterday afternoon – with not a single protester to be seen or heard.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman
We are all familiar with the challenge of 'hitting the ground running'. Imagine trying to hit the ground painting - while you are being jostled by crowds, keeping a frantic eye on the clock and, all the while, having that same nagging thought at the back of your mind: this had better be really good. Oh, and make sure you look smart, too. Over 40 years, that has been the challenge facing some of our most talented - and most fortunate - artists.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman
On the afternoon of April 11, 1930, the celebrated British big-game hunter Jim Corbett nearly met his maker. He was painstakingly following a trail through the Agar forest in northern India in pursuit of a tigress which had already consumed 64 people. The terrified locals were pinning their hopes on Corbett. At that very moment, he should have become Number 65. That he did not is down to a great British institution which has been celebrating a big anniversary this month.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Robert Hardman
When Charles III came to the throne in September 2022, some commentators warned he would seek to ‘meddle’ and ‘cross constitutional red lines’. These critics had failed to realise that after 73 years of preparation, he had a far sharper grasp of the new constraints on him as sovereign. As a result we have had barely a batsqueak of complaint on that score. But now a different constitutional challenge looms, one we have not really seen since the 1980s.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
