Mandrake

Rupert Murdoch has been told to shut up about Brexit on Twitter by Jerry Hall, the politicisation of the BBC press office, how Mandrake got a passport emblazoned with the words European Union… and how Annunziata Rees-Mogg has been struggling for a role in life. Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, speaks at […]

Gina Miller reacts with chutzpah to a petition to silence her, Nigel Farage knows Dad’s Army scripts by heart and Christopher Booker sets an example for Telegraph colleagues. Although somewhat pre-occupied at the present time, Theresa May is being invited to consider whether Gina Miller should keep her thoughts about Brexit to herself. A change.org […]

Why Olivia Williams’ new film about Brexit means the world to her, the Brextremist takeover of the Catholic Herald, Arron Banks quits Leave.EU… and could old war films have inspired two evangelists for Brexit? TIM WALKER takes us through it. Not content simply with taking part in last month’s march against Brexit, Olivia Williams, best […]

Members threaten to quit Arts Club after Michael Gove given free membership, Telegraph’s hypocrisy on Islamophobia exposed, and how the BBC’s Chris Morris is ‘trying’ to make colleagues aware that public opinion on Brexit has shifted. There are rumblings of discontent at the Arts Club in Mayfair over its decision to grant honorary membership to […]

TIM WALKER explores Christopher Booker’s ‘inhumane’ treatment by Telegraph, how Will Self outdid Paddington’s ‘hard stare’ and Gina Miller urging people to turn out for Nigel Farage. Christopher Booker of the Sunday Telegraph. Picture: Getty Images – Credit: Archant Christopher Booker has been writing for the Sunday Telegraph since it was launched in 1961, but, […]

Nigel Farage has still to claim expenses for his much-talked-about private jet to Strasbourg, the Brexit evangelist who wrote about the ‘cloying molasses of Brussels,’ and who was behind Amber Rudd’s defiant stand against Theresa May? Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images) – Credit: AFP/Getty Images After having his […]

Our diary discloses how Christopher Moran – an ally of Arlene Foster and Boris Johnson – is doing well out of his property empire, why the BBC won’t give airtime to the Brexit jobless and the latest twist in the mystery of who funded Nigel Farage’s private jet. ‘Sex for sale’ does Mr Moran no […]

David Davis focuses on his outside earnings, Telegraph accused of being ‘Stalinist’ and Madeleina Kay is the latest to complain about the BBC’s Brexit bias David Davis has proved yet again that no-one ever got poor being a cheerleader for Brexit. The former DExEU minister has just come clean about how much money he’s now […]

After Mandrake reported on a secret ‘Remainer register’ at the BBC, TIM WALKER speaks to the academics who have been dropped from its political programmes at the last minute. Mandrake’s revelation that the BBC is routinely standing down guests after cross-checking them against their secret ‘Remainer register’ has prompted a number of senior academics to […]

Mandrake can disclose the BBC has a Remainer register of talking heads it deems to be ‘unsound’ on the most divisive issue of our times. ‘What’s sinister is the extent of research that’s gone into it and how it extends beyond the political arena into other worlds such as show business,’ a corporation journalist tells […]

Our diary reveals how Brexit is proving good for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s businesses, the bill for Theresa May’s charm offensive ahead of the vote on her deal… and why Fiona Bruce is the lady for David Cameron. Brexit is proving good for business for Jacob Rees-Mogg. Saliston – a holding company that is part of the […]

Our diary focuses on the TV journalists competing for David Cameron’s on screen regrets about Brexit, the ousted Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre’s unlikely casting as a sex god and how the former Tory MP James Wharton has got Gavin Williamson out of his trademark navy blue suit. The fight is on for Dave’s confession […]

The diary columnist on vanquished Mail editor and his missing gong, Channel 4’s Brexit film The Uncivil War, and Kay Burley’s Christmas gift for foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt… Sky News presenter Kay Burley gave foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt a Christmas present. Photo: Getty – Credit: Getty Images Conspicuous by his absence in Theresa May’s so-called […]

George Osborne so busy with his nine jobs he neglects paperwork for Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Womad Festival under pressure over Jacob Rees-Mogg connection and the Telegraph hires from TaxPayers’ Alliance in this week’s MANDRAKE. When Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool, quit the Northern Powerhouse Partnership earlier this month, George Osborne said it was vital […]

Music festival regulars not happy Brextemist is involved with venue, Sarah Vine’s four letter word speech at ousted Daily Mail chief’s party, and Samantha Cameron’s part in her husband’s downfall Mandrake trusts that the Earl of Suffolk will not come to regret giving the Brextremist Jacob Rees-Mogg a number of directorships associated with his family […]

PM flies out of Heathrow rather than Brize Norton to buy extra time to sell her deal, Liam Fox afraid to talk to Channel 4 News and Mandrake’s part in Sam Gymiah’s resignation. Theresa May loftily informed the Commons committee inquiring into the practicalities of Brexit last week that she ‘had a plane to catch’. […]

A senior BBC journalist talks of the crisis of confidence in the BBC’s newsrooms and the weakness of Lord Hall, Jacob Rees-Mogg teams up with the Earl of Suffolk, and Kwasi Kwarteng drowns his sorrows alone in Lily Allen’s club. Brexit has precipitated a crisis of confidence across the BBC’s newsrooms, one of its most […]

David Davis takes it upon himself to try to negotiate a free trade deal in US, Paul Dacre now wants a peerage for services to Brexit, and why Sky’s Sophy Ridge no longer sees Andrew Marr as serious competition. David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, caused some alarm when he imperiously announced that he had […]

David Cameron is said to be too frightened about provoking Brextremists to back a People’s Vote… and will there be a knighthood for ousted Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre in New Year’s Honours? In his quiet, but determined way, Sir John Major has been lobbying David Cameron to come out publicly for a People’s Vote, […]

Mandrake reveals when Kamal Ahmed said ‘all hail, Sir Philip Green,’ Liam Fox combines business with pleasure and Jane Fonda asks why Corbyn is not opposing Brexit. Few, if any, journalists know Sir Philip Green better than Kamal Ahmed, but the BBC’s economics editor has been curiously silent about the controversial tycoon who’s been so […]

Gina Miller laments that no one in government will debate Brexit with her, the maverick Telegraph star who wants an inquest into the ‘unholy mess’ of Brexit, and Boris Johnson’s £16,846 jolly to the States. Few, if any people, can grasp the detail of Brexit quite like Gina Miller – and that would appear to […]

The Today programme disinvites Patrick Kielty after his epic Twitter showdown with Boris Johnson, the tears of Steve Baker and Boris Johnson’s freebie tickets to get booed at The Oval The bookers on the ailing Today programme on Radio 4 felt they had pulled off quite a coup the other day by securing the popular […]

Although David Cameron now has a reputation for being cavalier about membership of even the most worthwhile institutions, he’s apparently missing White’s, the exclusive St James’s club that he quit in 2008 when he twigged it didn’t admit women. ‘I’ve been seeing quite a lot of him just lately as a guest, dining with a […]

Tory MP Nicky Morgan says Boris Johnson must decide if he’s politician or a hack, Sarah Vine is ‘unsackable,’ Liam Fox’s powder puff and Gina Miller’s mission to Ireland Businesswoman and Transparency Activist, Gina Miller, takes part in a panel discussion on ‘What Business should be doing about Brexit’ during Brexit minus 365 conference at […]

EXCLUSIVE: TIM WALKER on a bid to break the Westminster impasse and force a People’s Vote The Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable is challenging Nicola Sturgeon to join the fight in Parliament for a People’s Vote. ‘We need the SNP’s MPs to vote with us to secure this victory, as the Parliamentary arithmetic is […]

In the latest Mandrake, Tim Walker takes a look at the BBC’s Brexit Burnley, and a remarkable reverse ferret at the Daily Mail. In any ‘random’ BBC street interviews with members of the public about Brexit, it appears to be custom and practice to include at least a few folk saying, without any challenge or […]

Times up for Nigel Farage as he’s banned from his local boozer, while the Brextremists fail to come up with a credible plan, and Gina Miller pursues Jacob Rees-Mogg. Last orders for Farage and friends The time is up for Nigel Farage and his carefully-cultivated image as the bloke in a pub who can’t help […]

Gina Miller re-enters the fray on Brexit with a bold new initiative, the Russian link to the new woman in Boris Johnson’s life and how Andrew Marr silences his critics. Gina to make some waves in Dover If ever a town needed to be cheered up, it’s Dover. It voted Leave by a margin of […]