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Strangely, Truss's beloved idol, Margaret Thatcher, didn't put office layout in any leadership and election manifestos

An investigation into the conduct of a leading columnist has widened into how the paper dealt with previous complaints

If Britain’s most stridently liberal newspaper fails to deal with claims of sexual harassment by one of its leading writers, what does it say about the supposed progress of the #MeToo movement, asks Lucy Siegle - AKA “Woman 2” in the case against Nick Cohen

Yet, the words 'prime minister Liz Truss' will soon be part of our language and landscape

Insider shares ‘great disappointment’ at how claims against leading writer were dealt with

The younger man succeeded Paul Dacre as editor of the Daily Mail. Now he might pip him to a peerage

Unless an owner with extremely deep pockets comes forward, the publication may not make it to Christmas, one source tells MANDRAKE

Up in Scotland, my play about Gina Miller's court case against Theresa May's government over parliamentary sovereignty is causing quite the stir

As competence joins fact-based debate in the dustbin of Brexit Britain’s history, queues mount at airports and Eurotunnel terminals

If the Daily Mail chief heads to the House of Lords, expect big changes at the titles he leaves behind

There is too little questioning either of the process to choose the next prime minister or scrutiny of the half-baked proposals and vacuous slogans the candidates are bringing to the table

A desperate editorial in the Daily Mail shows how Dacre is Boris Johnson's last reliable cheerleader on Fleet Street

Supporters of the outgoing PM share Trump-style claims of a coup organised by the media

In Ed Power's review of Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster, MANDRAKE was misquoted

Or, has there been an outbreak of journalistic integrity at the Mail? It seems some hacks are no longer prepared to blindly support the prime minister

The Sun’s Harry Cole continues to fight the prime minister’s corner. Dominic Cummings, meanwhile, finds this tiring

The former prime minister’s Future of Britain conference was a reminder of why politics must be better

Owner intervenes as previously loyal paper is expected to criticise PM

Assange and his fans make it difficult to take his side. But this doesn’t change the fact that this prosecution is dangerous and unjust

Some are seeing this as a demotion, but anything is a step up after working for Johnson

At the next election, Labour must hit back against the Tories’ myths rather than playing into them

The levelling up secretary spent Rupert Murdoch's summer party as the nonagenarian's personal pastry picker

Had Lord Rothermere not relieved Geordie Greig from his editorship then the paper would’ve published the scoop

The New European has led the way on the tale of the disappearing scoop. But for supposedly bold national newspapers it has been an exercise in timidity

MANDRAKE is assured they are opening their country retreat for charitable causes rather than tax advantages

The prime minister always referred to the Telegraph as his “real boss”. Will they soon be welcoming him home?

Over the past decade Lionel Shriver has made a name for herself as a one-woman corrective to what she perceives as an excessively “woke” culture in this country

A trip to Portugal for veterans of the Daily Mail was more like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine

His review of Legally Blonde made it clear he wasn’t pleased about the casting of “fuller-bodied, nonbinary actors”

There is an ongoing inquiry into the running of The Aspinall Foundation, who Carrie works for when she's not organising “strategy meetings” in Downing Street

Hancock’s somewhat modest outside earnings haven't stopped him enjoying life with the woman he found it so difficult to socially distance from during lockdown

These days reviewers are rarely journalists but individuals with axes to grind