It’s time Putin’s real useful idiots woke up
As idiots go, few have been more useful to Russia in recent years than George Galloway. The former Labour MP who famously once pretended to be a…
Ukraine and the will to liberty
It is a measure of how stable the continent of Europe has been, and for how long, that images of Russian tanks rolling towards Kyiv today took…
Here’s what the free world needs to do to defeat Putin’s new Russian imperium
It’s surely only a matter of time before the disaster unfolds. The fall of Kyiv, which was almost unthinkable a month ago, looks a near certainty. The…
A self-indulgent West has allowed Putin to start re-erecting the Iron Curtain
I have a curiously vivid memory from late August 1968, when I was 11 years old. I had got up earlier than the rest of the family….
Tate Modern in trans rights row as women protest against ‘one-sided’ film
The Tate rejected the activists’ criticisms, telling The Telegraph: “We have chosen to screen a work that does not propose one perspective on the question of womanhood,…
Cochrane’s Scotland: The SNP owe Alex Salmond, so they can’t disown him even if they dislike him
At the root of their enmity is, as is often the case in politics, money. Back in the bad old days, as they’d see it, of Scottish…
Bill to raise marriage age in England and Wales to 18 clears Commons
The marriage age is set to be raised from 16 to 18 after the existing rules were described as “bewildering” by MPs. Laws to ban child marriage…
Priti Patel resists calls for UK to take in thousands fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Priti Patel is resisting calls for Britain to take in thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s invasion as officials warned that Ukraine was too large a country…
SNP ‘ignored’ data privacy concerns to launch Scottish Covid passport app
In particular, it highlighted “an ongoing failure to provide concise privacy information so that the average person can realistically understand how the NHS Scotland Covid Status app…
Vaccine success lays groundwork for Britain to become a global health leader
Already there are some signs of change. EU state aid laws had proved to be a bane for British biotechnology companies, barred from grant funding due to…
Young Labour Twitter account blocked after accusing Boris Johnson of ‘warmongering’ over Ukraine
Young Labour has had its Twitter account blocked by party officials after using it to accuse Boris Johnson of “warmongering” over the crisis in Ukraine. The party’s…
Michael Gove scraps radical planning law following fierce Tory backlash
Plans have been ‘watered down’ Mr Gove also told the meeting that the “growth zones” are now “definitely not going to happen”. A second source said that…
He’s off the air, but Alex Salmond needs to broadcast outrage over Vladimir Putin for once
His entire statement is absolutely typical of the self-serving whine that we’ve become used to from Mr Salmond in recent times. And far from answering his critics,…
How Russia has triggered the return of existential dread
At 3.15am yesterday morning, Google Maps showed a traffic jam on the main road from Russia into Ukraine, a very 21st-century sign that a distinctly 20th-century phenomenon…
Alex Salmond suspends Russia Today chat show as he caves in to furore
Alex Salmond has finally bowed to pressure to suspend the broadcast of his chat show on a Kremlin-funded TV channel, but raised the prospect of bringing it…
EU hesitant to cut Russia off Swift as it pays for its gas, says Ben Wallace
‘Don’t obsess over banning Russia from Swift’ It came as the EU’s ambassador to the UK said that world leaders should not be “obsessed” about cutting Russia…
Rishi Sunak gives us the first sight of his post-Covid economic vision
At Conservative Party conference last October, the Chancellor was already sticking out like a sore thumb among the Cabinet when it came to discussing the size of…
Bereaved families forced to wait months for pension payouts
Bereaved families have been left waiting months for inheritance money because of delays at one of Britain’s largest pension firms. Scottish Widows customers said they have been…
‘Absent landlords are ruining my home. How do I force them into action’
Dear Property Doctors, We live on an estate of freehold houses and leasehold flats. The owners of the latter applied a few years ago for a share…
Questor: now is the time to reassess how long to hold on to stocks
Conversely, investors who were equally unfortunate in purchasing shares shortly before any of those market crashes but held their positions for the long term, are far more…
‘I invest like Warren Buffett – here are my trade secrets’
Who is the fund for? Investors who want the power of gradual compounding in their portfolio. We look for steady businesses that are operating within growing markets…
The Midlands is the house price engine of Britain – here’s where to buy
In the past two years, the average property in Nottingham has increased in value by a quarter. It is one of a constellation of cities across the…
Homeowners suffer as cheapest mortgages double in price
The best mortgage rates have almost doubled in just five months as lenders have pulled the cheapest deals on a daily basis amid inflation fears. Analysts warned…
How I beat Britain’s biggest companies and won £2m for Telegraph readers
Another success involved getting debt collectors to stop chasing a reader for an alleged debt on a Corgi toy ice-cream van – worth £1.99. It was hardly…
Retirees face double worry as Ukraine crisis pummels markets
Pensioners were hit by a double whammy this week as war in Europe sent stock markets plummeting just as rampant inflation rips apart their cash. News that…