NOW we have it from the horse’s mouth. Labour’s commitment to properly invest in Britain’s Armed Forces, long suspected to be hollow, is proved to be nothing more than an apparition.

EVERY so often, a Land Rover Defender pulls up outside the Reform Party’s Makerfield HQ, on an industrial estate in south Wigan, and disgorges a group of largely male political activists.

SORRY about this, but I’m in full Elvis Costello ‘Oh, I just don’t know where to begin’ mode again today. ­Accidents will happen. One ­minute I’m planning a Janet And John spoof, on the grounds that the gentle books which taught millions of us to read, are denounced as ‘colonialist’ and ‘racist’ and must be banned lest they brainwash a new generation into wrong-think.

NEW figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that Gen Z women are delaying or opting out of having children at ­significantly higher rates than previous generations.

AS the King prepares to open up more of St James’s Palace for commercial lettings it emerges that Princess Anne, the last full-time working royal with an apartment there, would like to stay put. My mole reveals she been offered alternative accommodation at another royal residence. But Anne is comfy at SJP where security hasn’t always been watertight. For years a doorway to the state apartments from the street had no functioning lock nor handle. Those in the know knew where to place a firm kick to open it. Someone accessed Princess Alexandra’s apartment and helped themselves to her whisky. And Anne once answered the door to a pedestrian asking for directions to Green Park Tube.