Politics

Prince Harry has won a small victory in his High Court battle: a judge ruled this morning that his privacy case against Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, can proceed to trial. Harry is part of a group of seven, including Doreen Lawrence and Sir Elton John, who have accused the newspaper group of all manner of reprehensible behaviour, including listening in on private telephone conversations, accessing confidential records and even planting bugging devices within vehicles. Associated denies the accusations, calling them ‘preposterous smears’. It asked the judge hearing the case, Mr Justice Nicklin, to dismiss the case without trial. But Nicklin refused to

The debacle concerning Suella Braverman makes the front page of most papers today after No. 10 confirmed that the Home Secretary had failed to get sign off for a Times op-ed on police bias published earlier this week. Despite Downing Street using Thursday’s lobby briefing to say that Braverman and her team had ignored a No. 10 request to tone down the piece, the Prime Minister has said he still has confidence in his Home Secretary. Given several Tory MPs and anonymous government ministers have joined in with calls from opposition parties for Sunak to sack Braverman, the question in Westminster is how long this current position can hold. Jeremy

‘Let’s talk about sex, baby,’ sang female rap duo Salt-N-Pepa back in 1990. More than 30-years later, it can seem as if we talk about little else. Today, we are not just expected to talk frankly about all matters carnal but to be ‘sex positive’. Emma Sayle, the founder of ‘Killing Kittens’ – which organises posh orgies for bored bankers – is the latest to urge us to speak up about sex. ‘Being sex positive is just being open about sexuality and being able to talk comfortably about sex without any shame or guilt or judgment,’ she said in an interview with the Times this week. Her words were revealing,