SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: David Beckham likes to think he is a man of the people. However, the Communist state of China takes a rather different view of his body art.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE - Members of the MCC have been left outraged after talk of an extraordinary and 'radical' proposal started to filter among the masses.
Proctor resigned as the Duke's private secretary and in 2015 moved out of his home after it was raided as part of Operation Midland, writes SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Sir Humphrey Burton is to spill the beans in a memoir, including anecdotes about acquaintances like Andrew Lloyd Webber and Leonard Bernstein.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: The Duchess of Cornwall's late brother Mark Shand (pictured left) dedicated his life to saving wildlife, co-founding the Elephant Family in 2002.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Soho Farmhouse, the £1,650-a-year very exclusive private members' club set in 120 Oxfordshire acres is opening its doors to an army of tent dwellers.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: The Carnarvons have gone out of their way to try to find a solution - but the road to Downton has hit a few bumps.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Tom Daley's knitting hobby, which he took up to deal with self-isolation, is not going down too well with his husband, film producer Dustin Lance Black.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: After The Ritz was snapped up last month for £800million making it the most expensive hotel in the world, people have wondered who bought it.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: I can disclose that Andrew Bedford, the 15th Duke, his wife, Louise, and their children have been obliged to leave Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Victoria Beckham, who is seeking taxpayer help to pay dozens of staff at her loss-making fashion label, is keen to stop others exploiting her name.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Doctor Foster star Suranne Jones (left) reveals she and her husband, screenwriter Laurence Akers (inset right), sleep apart.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: According to Laura, Julian Fellowes told her: 'Don't try and destroy an image that people have of you, that they enjoy.'
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: He's the Old Etonian former SAS officer who achieved notoriety as leader of the so-called failed 'Wonga' coup.
The Daily Mail's Sebastian Shakespeare discusses pleas for Boris Johnson's speedy recovery, last wishes with Dame Olivia de Havilland, and why Mary Beard is not about to lose her Marbles.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: The 82-year-old painter is convinced that smoking helps protect against coronavirus. And he's written a letter to the Daily Mail to argue his case.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: First the Queen was told that her beloved Royal Ascot would take place behind closed doors; now the Royal Family has suffered another sporting blow.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Far from enjoying a tranquil lockdown at his home in Berkshire, Richard Ingrams today finds himself on the receiving end of a spirited spoof.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: He's been married three times, imprisoned in both the U.S. and Australia, deported from Canada and exposed as a bigamist in the High Court in London.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Let's hear it for White Van Man. And Black Van Man, and every other shade of van man and woman. Where the hell would we have been without them over the past few weeks?
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Last week, in my CO-VE Day spoof, I joked about Extinction Rebellion reoccupying bridges across the Thames within minutes of the lockdown being lifted.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Back in 2004, in the run-up to the U.S. Presidential election, I was invited to take part in a special edition of the BBC's Question Time, live from Miami.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: On his return to work yesterday, Boris Johnson channelled his inner Winston Churchill and announced that we are nearing the end of the beginning in the fight.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: From the Off, I've been happy to admit that when it comes to the coronavirus crisis I don't have a clue. Is the lockdown justified? Should it be lifted immediately?
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: They called it the biggest gathering of musical talent since Live Aid, although to be honest I hadn't heard of half the acts involved.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Only Fools And Horses has topped a poll of classic TV programmes being binge-watched by viewers seeking solace during the coronavirus crisis.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Scientists in Holland have worked out they can calculate the spread of the virus by studying sewage.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: We are all in this together. How many times have we heard that over the past few weeks?
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN - Who could forget that famous photograph of Tom Watson at Glastonbury in 2017, looking like Super Mario's morbidly obese brother? Now, somehow, the music links return.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN The app is reported to use similar technology to that which allows men to send unsolicited pictures of their private parts to women sitting on the same bus.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Britain's top police officer, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, yesterday promised that enforcement of the rules would be through persuasion, not punishment.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN is giving readers an exclusive bootleg transcript of a conversation between Boris Johnson and Her Majesty The Queen, who seems to be quite concerned about how her dogs are fairing...
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Trouble is, I still can't work out what's occurring. And what really bothers me is that I'm not particularly confident that anyone else has a clue, either.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: After Boris Johnson declared that Britain is on a war footing, it may also be time to bring back the Home Guard. Let's cross live to Walmington-on-Sea, which is already in lockdown
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Today's edition of You Couldn't Make It Up comes courtesy of Islamic State, which has advised jihadists to steer clear of Europe in case they catch coronavirus.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: This is what it must have been like in 1940. Europe has fallen, the United States has gone into isolation and Britain stands alone.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: If the BBC does summon the courage to revive Life On Mars, it should bring the show bang up to date and catapult Hunt forward in time to the present day.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Coronavirus is being blamed for the collapse of Flybe, despite the fact that the airline has been in trouble for years. The 2,000 staff who are out of work are rightly furious.
Having read in the Sunday papers that, because of coronavirus, the over-60s should avoid routine visits to surgeries, I emailed my doctor to confirm that my annual medical check-up. would go ahead...
ROBERT HARDMAN: Reminding us of the central message of VE Day itself, the Queen declared: 'Never give up, never despair.'
ROBERT HARDMAN: I have no doubt Sir Winston Churchill (pictured outside Downing Street in April 1945) would be equally moved by the magnificent response to the call to arms by Mail Force.
ROBERT HARDMAN: Across the NHS, the consumption of personal protective equipment - 'PPE' - is staggering yet seemingly unavoidable.
ROBERT HARDMAN: Of all the last-minute cancellations caused by the ghastly coronavirus, one of the saddest is the great national gathering which we should all have been enjoying.
ROBERT HARDMAN: No peal of bells from an empty Westminster Abbey. No thunderous gun salutes from Hyde Park, the Tower of London, Edinburgh Castle or anywhere else.
ROBERT HARDMAN: As every false dawn turns to dusk; as every fresh promise - be it of testing kits or ventilators - falls short, so the cries grow louder: where is the Lord Beaverbrook of our times?
The last time the Countess of Bradford wore a Stewart Parvin creation, it was on the day of her wedding. It was also a very different look from the Parvin ensemble she has been wearing this weekend.
Vera Lynn, pictured, was named personality of the century in a nationwide poll, and Robert Hardman announced the Daily Mail's campaign to get the whole of Britain to sing 'We will meet again' in unison.
ROBERT HARDMAN: There is, quite simply, no one else in Britain who could have delivered such a message with such unimpeachable authority.
ROBERT HARDMAN: Thus it was that the Prince of Wales opened the 4,000-bed Nightingale Hospital in east London yesterday - while sitting in his armchair in deepest Aberdeenshire.
ROBERT HARDMAN: Yesterday morning could not have got off to a more harrowing start as Michelle Fay arrived to take over from the night shift.