Up in smoke / Save the cigar lounge

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Alexander Larman

Fake news / Is it over for antiques dealers?

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Sean Thomas

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Melanie Mcdonagh

What the Blob doesn’t want you to know about ethnicity and crime

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Laurie Wastell

Stumped / There is still hope for the Ashes

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Patrick Kidd

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Mark Cocker

Music / Indian classical music’s rebellion against modernity

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Philip Clark

Why it’s good the NHS is paying more for medicines

We have caved in to bullying from President Trump. It will put NHS budgets under even more pressure. And the Green leader Zack Polanski will...

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Matthew Lynn

Sound check / 2025 has been a fantastic year for music

Norman Lebrecht, who attends concerts as frequently as falcons swoop over St John’s Wood, has declared 2025 to be a terrible year for music. We are...

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Michael Henderson

Starmer’s China policy seems stuck in the past

Prior to entering No. 10, Keir Starmer had little experience of foreign affairs. Yet in office, the subject has consumed a disproportionate amount...

yesterday 10

James Heale

Theatre’s tragedy / The theatre isn’t a thinktank

Readers tend not to approve of rows between columnists, but I must take issue with something Lloyd Evans wrote in ‘No life’ last week. Our theatre...

yesterday 10

Douglas Murray

Labour are almost as deluded as the Your Party faithful

Kemi Badenoch has some thoughts on the Labour party. When pressed by the Telegraph on who or what would come after Rachel Reeves in the terrible...

yesterday 10

Gareth Roberts

Notes on... / Why are we so suspicious of magpies?

I started counting magpies during my brief, doomed time as a history teacher. Trudging in every morning, the grim prospect of Weimar Germany with...

yesterday 10

William Atkinson

Je m’accuse / The art of owning up

Though Rebecca Culley is obviously a wrong ’un – having stolen £90,000 from her dear old gramps while pretending to care for him and only spend a...

yesterday 10

Julie Burchill

Buffet blues / Why are hotel breakfasts so bad?

Where else would you see anyone wandering around with a plate heaped with such incongruous ingredients as bacon, olives, blueberry waffles and a...

yesterday 10

Julie Bindel

Noel? No thank you / The horror of the festive period

I was driving my daughter to school recently when we tuned into Heart Breakfast. A caller was attempting to answer five Christmas-related questions...

yesterday 10

G.v. Chappell

Injustice / Watch: Jenrick rips into ‘Lammy dodger’

It is David Lammy’s big announcement on juries today – so that means another outing for the Tory Trident, Robert Jenrick. The heat-seeking-missile...

yesterday 4

Steerpike

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could face MP grilling

Oh dear. It seems that the horror never ends for the Andrew formally known as Prince. Mountbatten-Windsor – as he must now be called – was formally...

yesterday 3

Steerpike

War in Ukraine / Why Putin thinks destiny is on his side

yesterday 3

Owen Matthews

Trump is right to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood

Donald Trump has begun the process of banning the Muslim Brotherhood. The US President asked his officials last week to investigate whether certain...

yesterday 6

Edmund Fitton-Brown

Lammy unveils plans to slash jury trials

David Lammy has this afternoon set out his plans in parliament to drastically reduce the use of jury trials in England and Wales. With the backlog...

yesterday 4

James Heale

The worrying flaws in Lammy’s plan to cut jury trials

David Lammy clearly spotted that he had set the cat among the pigeons when his plans to cut back on jury trials were leaked last week. Realising...

yesterday 5

Andrew Tettenborn

How will Britain survive without Sally Rooney?

I am not sure there are numbers small enough to capture the net literary loss to Britain of Sally Rooney’s books no longer being published here....

yesterday 6

Zoe Strimpel

A four-day week won’t save teachers from burnout

Campaigners have urged Bridget Phillipson to give teachers in England and Wales a day out of school every week with no loss of pay. The 4 Day Week...

yesterday 5

Debbie Hayton

Tulip Siddiq can’t turn her back on Bangladeshi politics now

A Bangladeshi court sentenced the Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison in absentia on Monday. Siddiq, who stepped down as anti-corruption...

yesterday 4

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

Why won’t Lammy tell us about prisoners released by mistake?

It’s now over six weeks since Hadush Kebatu’s ‘release in error’ sparked a two day manhunt, and highlighted our prison system’s disastrous habit of...

yesterday 3

David Shipley

Racism / The scandal of the Maccabi ban must not be allowed to fade

yesterday 6

Brendan O’Neill

David Lammy’s jury reforms aren’t bold – they’re brazen

yesterday 10

Madeline Grant

Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing

Another week. Another video from within a prison. More words of outrage. This time it’s a video showing a prison officer inside a crowded cell,...

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David Shipley

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform

Another one bites the dust. Now it transpires that the onetime deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Jonathan Gullis, has defected to Reform...

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Steerpike

Violence is being normalised against the National Rally

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James Tidmarsh

Herzog Park / Dublin is quietly becoming a Jew-free city

Dublin’s councillors have seen sense – for now. They were due to vote today on a proposal to rename the city’s Herzog Park. Chaim Herzog – the...

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Rory Hanrahan

Asking price / Would you pay for your office Christmas party?

If Christmas is a time for giving then it seems the message isn’t getting through to nearly enough office managers. For the umpteenth year running,...

previous day 20

Rob Crossan

Weapons of war / Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron

Emmanuel Macron welcomed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to Paris this morning to discuss ‘the conditions for a just and lasting peace’....

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Gavin Mortimer

Pope Leo’s visit to Turkey comes at an uncertain time for the country’s Christians

Pope Leo XIV is visiting Turkey and Lebanon on what is his first trip abroad since being elected in May. These are unusual destinations for a first...

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Daniel Thorpe

Economics / What’s Trump got to do with the price of turkey?

During last week’s excruciating Oval Office make-nice between an insultingly buddy-buddy American President and a fraudulently obsequious New York...

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Lionel Shriver

Your Party’s implosion almost makes me feel sorry for Jeremy Corbyn

I’ll fight you if you contradict my assertion that The Producers is the funniest film ever made. It’s celluloid perfection. And the musical – now...

previous day 10

Stephen Pollard

Film star / A Room with a View is the greatest period drama ever made

It may come as surprise to discover that A Room with a View, the celebrated Merchant-Ivory adaption of the E.M. Forster novel, is 40 this month....

previous day 10

Alec Marsh

Wed flag / Are you too cool for marriage?

Lara Brown has narrated this article for you to listen to. The term ‘spinster’ doesn’t seem to scare young women like it once might have. In...

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Lara Brown

Artificial irrelevance / The march of the useless machines

In search of coffee on my way to work the other day, I stopped short mid-way into a branch of a popular coffee shop when I noticed the digital...

previous day 10

Naomi Firsht

Why is it taking so long to strip away Andrew’s last title?

As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor contemplates the wreckage of his public life and career, it would be easy to say that his disgrace is complete. In...

previous day 10

Alexander Larman

Starmer defends Rachel Reeves over Budget ‘lies’

Much of Rachel Reeves’s Budget was unprecedented: the leaking, the speculation and the OBR accidentally uploading its details an hour early. This...

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James Heale

OBR probe reveals leak had happened before

Well, well, well. The official review of the leaked Budget documents that circulated last Wednesday ahead of Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement has...

previous day 10

Steerpike

The day net zero died

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Ross Clark

Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog

The Irish are in many ways the ideal neighbours. They’re quiet, industrious, peaceful, send their best talents to London, and turn out poets and...

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Stephen Daisley

Richard Hughes quits as OBR chairman

They think it’s all OBR – it is now. Political journalists should always be wary of that word ‘inevitable’. But from the moment it was revealed on...

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James Heale

Tulip Siddiq handed two-year sentence in Bangladesh

All is not well in Labour party at present. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent the morning defending his Chancellor Rachel Reeves and her autumn...

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Steerpike

Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves

You can always tell someone is in trouble when the Prime Minister calls an emergency press conference. A combined force of black cats and magpies...

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Madeline Grant

Should the police use facial recognition on children?

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Ian Acheson

Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus

This week, 17.5 million people on various benefits including the state pension and disability living allowance will receive a £10 Christmas bonus....

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Up in smoke / Save the cigar lounge

Alexander Larman

Fake news / Is it over for antiques dealers?

Sean Thomas

Books / Witches, dragons and the Terrible Deev: a choice of this year’s children’s books

Melanie Mcdonagh

What the Blob doesn’t want you to know about ethnicity and crime

Laurie Wastell

Stumped / There is still hope for the Ashes

Patrick Kidd

Books / Bats have suffered too long from the ‘Dracula effect’

Mark Cocker

Music / Indian classical music’s rebellion against modernity

Philip Clark

Why it’s good the NHS is paying more for medicines

Matthew Lynn

Sound check / 2025 has been a fantastic year for music

Michael Henderson

Starmer’s China policy seems stuck in the past

James Heale

Theatre’s tragedy / The theatre isn’t a thinktank

Douglas Murray

Labour are almost as deluded as the Your Party faithful

Gareth Roberts

Notes on... / Why are we so suspicious of magpies?

William Atkinson

Je m’accuse / The art of owning up

Julie Burchill

Buffet blues / Why are hotel breakfasts so bad?

Julie Bindel

Noel? No thank you / The horror of the festive period

G.v. Chappell

Injustice / Watch: Jenrick rips into ‘Lammy dodger’

Steerpike

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could face MP grilling

Steerpike

War in Ukraine / Why Putin thinks destiny is on his side

Owen Matthews

Trump is right to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood

Edmund Fitton-Brown

Lammy unveils plans to slash jury trials

James Heale

The worrying flaws in Lammy’s plan to cut jury trials

Andrew Tettenborn

How will Britain survive without Sally Rooney?

Zoe Strimpel

A four-day week won’t save teachers from burnout

Debbie Hayton

Tulip Siddiq can’t turn her back on Bangladeshi politics now

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

Why won’t Lammy tell us about prisoners released by mistake?

David Shipley

Racism / The scandal of the Maccabi ban must not be allowed to fade

Brendan O’Neill

David Lammy’s jury reforms aren’t bold – they’re brazen

Madeline Grant

Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing

David Shipley

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform

Steerpike

Violence is being normalised against the National Rally

James Tidmarsh

Herzog Park / Dublin is quietly becoming a Jew-free city

Rory Hanrahan

Asking price / Would you pay for your office Christmas party?

Rob Crossan

Weapons of war / Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron

Gavin Mortimer

Pope Leo’s visit to Turkey comes at an uncertain time for the country’s Christians

Daniel Thorpe

Economics / What’s Trump got to do with the price of turkey?

Lionel Shriver

Your Party’s implosion almost makes me feel sorry for Jeremy Corbyn

Stephen Pollard

Film star / A Room with a View is the greatest period drama ever made

Alec Marsh

Wed flag / Are you too cool for marriage?