Simon Trump

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Richard Kay |Simon Trump

On a chilly spring evening outside the Treasury building in the heart of Whitehall, a crowd of demonstrators is chanting, ‘Tax the rich’, as speakers take turns to denounce Labour’s plans to slash welfare spending. The contributors calling for a wealth tax include a Green MP, a union leader, campaigners against the privatisation of public services and other placard-waving activists from that familiar nexus of anti-government politics and protest. So far, so predictable.

1 month ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Robert Hardman |Simon Trump

Few sectors of the British economy are looking forward to the Chancellor's Spring Statement today with anything but a queasy sense of foreboding. One, in particular, is especially fearful of being picked on for the simple reason that Labour's ideological wrecking ball has already done untold damage. If private education is singled out for any further punishment, those working within it say, then what is already a crisis will become a disaster.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Ayaat Yassin-Kassab |Glen Keogh |Simon Trump

This is the moment Princess Diana's aristocrat cousin catches an energy worker who has been tearing down signs opposing a huge solar development. The Hon Hugh Roche – a grandson of Baroness Fermoy, a friend and confidante of the late Queen Mother – embarked on a sting operation to find out who was tearing down signs opposing the controversial project. Solar site Lime Down will cover farmland in an area of north Wiltshire approximately the size of 1,250 football pitches if approved.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston |Simon Trump

Michael Barrymore does have a ‘revenge mentality, really’. He says so on TikTok. Whether the video he posted recently is whimsical, hilarious or downright disturbing really depends on the person watching it, and what they know (or think they know) about Barrymore. In it, the former Mr Saturday Night TV – arguably the most successful TV entertainer of his generation, before his epic fall from grace – is taking a nice walk through the park. London looks sunny. So does he.

Oct 10, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Richard Marsden |Simon Trump

GREEN-fingered residents whose efforts to establish a community flower bed were destroyed by a raging businessman have rallied round to recreate the raised planter. In August, wind turbine company director Mike Hodgson, 54, was filmed apparently pulling out the colourful herbs and flowers less than 24 hours after the raised bed had been tenderly planted by volunteers.