Harold Macmillan: Last News

There’s plenty of brilliant telly to get stuck into this Christmas, including some fantastic dramas. One that those choosing to spend much of the festive period in front of the box can watch is Nolly, which begins tonight (27 December). While the programme originally aired on ITVX earlier this year, it will be broadcast in full on ITV in the coming days.

King Charles is taking a day of “contemplation” amid the exhausting schedule of public engagements and formal ceremonies in the wake of his mother’s death. The new monarch, 73, retired to his Highgrove estate on Wednesday evening (14. 09.

Queen Elizabeth II. It might be in ceremonial robes, with orb and sceptre, or waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace during her Platinum Jubilee. She was perhaps the most familiar face in the world, yet the woman behind that wonderful smile was also one of the least known, an enigma who regarded mystique as an essential part of the job.

Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson facing calls to resign over Partygate, many are being reminded of a previous controversy which took down a Tory PM - The Profumo Affair.Arguably one of the biggest scandals in British political history, the Profumo Affair led to jail sentences, suicide and the fall of a government.It took place in the 1960s, when the Conservatives held the office of the Prime Minister through Harold Macmillan. John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Macmillan's government was found to have had an affair with 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961.Profumo denied the affair in the House of Commons, but was caught out when a police investigation uncovered the truth - leading to the public losing faith in the credibility of Macmillan's government.The disgraced minister was later snapped looking humiliated as he drove away from Parliament and out of politics.The Secretary of State had denied the affair repeatedly, telling his fellow MPs: "There was no impropriety whatsoever.”But his web of lies began to untangle when it emerged that Keeler had kept one of his love letters.Profumo had wrote: "Darling, In great haste because I can get no reply from your phone — alas something’s blown up tomorrow night...

Oxford Union Society, has come to propose the motion that ‘This House Has Had Enough of PPE’ (Oxford’s famous course of philosophy, politics and economics). ‘The PPE degree is too powerful and not good enough,’ she proclaims, turning to address an audience attired in black tie.