Emily Sheffield

Feted by British royalty like no other American president, Donald Trump, the brash real-estate guy from Queens who is shunned by New York’s grand old families, was made to feel right at home, says Emily Sheffield. But it was a crowning achievement for Keir Starmer, too

For the self-styled monarch of the north, , the outcome today of the state banquet is clear: any hoped-for bid for No 10 has just been kicked into touch by the actual King of England.

The leader of the Conservative Party has rediscovered a clarity and verve that will have Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves – and Nigel Farage – worried, says Emily Sheffield

By talking openly about her assault on a train in the 1960s for the first time, the Queen will further encourage women and young girls to call out misogyny and not have it shrugged off as somehow part and parcel of being a women, says Emily Sheffield

Few of us, when learning of the murder of BBC racing commentator John Hunt’s family in Hertfordshire in July 2024, could comprehend the horror of it. His wife, Carol, was brutally stabbed multiple times, and two of his three daughters were murdered with a crossbow, in their own home. The perpetrator — now serving a life sentence in jail — was Kyle Clifford, a former soldier and the ex-boyfriend of Hunt’s 25-year-old daughter Louise, whom Clifford tied up and raped not far from the body of her dead mother, before turning the crossbow on her while she was still tied up. She had ended her relationship with him two weeks before. Clifford then murdered Louise’s sister Hannah as she entered the house from the garden, where she was completely oblivious to the terror unfolding yards away in her home.

What with the brutal sackings, the self-serving blame game and the litany of forced apologies, Starmer’s premiership has all gone a bit ’Boris Johnson-ny’, says Emily Sheffield. So will he share the same fate?

It won't be long before the removal vans turn up at the back door of No 10, to begin the arduous task of repatriating Keir Starmer and his family into normal life.