‘I lost £9,000 to the world’s most convincing scam’
Sally says: With the Black Friday weekend shopping frenzy in full swing and Christmas around the corner, I felt it timely to include your story as a…
Markets crash as lockdowns emerge – but the stocks to buy will be different this time
“The work-from-home stock market surge will not return,” he said. “Most people never returned to offices in full, so there will not be a huge shift if…
Ask the expert: ‘What is causing my battery to go flat?’
Alex Robbins is contributing editor at Telegraph Cars where, as well as responding to readers’ queries, he also contributes reviews of new and used cars, together with…
Morris Minor: the unlikeliest police car ever
Five years ago, Michael Burgess, a retired police officer, acquired a rather special Morris Minor. Not only was it a genuine former London Metropolitan Panda Car, but…
Important life lessons are taught at a nativity play – schools throw these away at their peril
To say I was anxious was an understatement. As I sat on the hard wooden chairs of a slightly stuffy assembly hall, my hands were clammy as…
Three easy and delicious ways to use a packet of noodles
I have always been fascinated by noodles. It began with the very questionable ones that come in a pot, followed by packets with sachets of sauce that…
Six things celebrities do to prove they’re ‘normal’
In Rod’s video there’s nothing going on that wasn’t going on in our own kitchen at the weekend, or the one before that. It rings true down…
Seeing Madonna’s bottom made me realise that we’ve aged very differently
The shot of her legs and bare bottom poking out from under a bed took social media by storm, sparking a wave of memes, and had me…
If Tube drivers keep striking, we should call their bluff and automate the trains
Tube drivers are wreaking havoc on the commutes of millions of Londoners today, as they go on strike over the much-delayed return of the night tube. They…
Joe Biden is everything he accused Donald Trump of being
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There’s nothing wrong with Boris Johnson’s letter to Emmanuel Macron
Concerned parents who fear their offspring might be showing an unhealthy tendency towards politics, and who might even be considering a career in parliament, could do worse…
The Border Force can end this crisis, but only with new powers
Illegal immigration from France is not a new phenomenon. There’s been a pressure to emigrate from mainland Europe to Britain for many years. I was in the…
Children need fathers, the ultimate male role models
I would no sooner want to see a female James Bond than a male Miss Marple. While it is surely only a matter of time before a…
It’s time to scrap the divisive and patronising term ‘BAME’
Whether the NHS should have a “Race and Health Observatory” is a matter for another time, but it is pleasing to see that, after consultation with the…
Wanted: a club that will let Nigel Farage smoke
Lighting up in St James’s Nigel Farage is looking for a new London club after the East India, his home for the past 30 years, wouldn’t give…
Macron could solve the migrant crisis if he wanted
It is a mystery of politics that those who claim Britain is a small, irrelevant country always insist we have a unique responsibility to solve the world’s…
We need to take back our lives from the permanent Covid panic-mongers
So we’re back here again. We’re heading into Christmas. Families are planning to gather. The worst appears to be behind us. Then a new Covid variant emerges….
‘Maggie didn’t quite die – her spirit is very much alive’
In 1993, when Maggie Jencks was 52, she found herself in Dumfries hospital being told that the breast cancer she thought she had recovered from had in…
William Sitwell reviews The Alice, Oxford: ‘Not the sort of place you’d want to linger in’
I smelt a rat when I called The Randolph Hotel in Oxford to tweak a lunch booking in its new restaurant, The Alice. A male voice artist…
‘How can I tell my overweight friend that she’s slowly killing herself?’
Dear A&E, One of my best friends is obese and has been for some time. Our circle of girlfriends – who, by the way, are not body…
I’ve tumbled from one personal disaster to the next, and one thing saved me
There’s only so long even an anxious, self-absorbed neurotic like me can spend worrying about houses and gazing at her navel. I’ve spent almost a year panicking…
Inside the £105,000 luxury taxi that’s equipped like a private jet
Should you wish to travel in the lap of luxury but don’t fancy driving, the chauffeur-driven limousine is the usual choice of businessmen the world over. But…
Why top personal trainers are tailoring their work-outs for over-65s
“We assess every client individually,” he says. “We had one 83-year-old woman who moved into Auriens who had never been to a gym before. She had very…
Elle Macpherson: ‘I was sugar addicted and sleep deprived, and it showed’
Face Mask, £90, Dr Barbara Sturm at Cult Beauty: I trust the science behind Dr Sturm’s formulations. I layer this over the Super Anti-Ageing Serum, leave it…
I tried the £15 ‘miracle hairbrush’ behind Jennifer Aniston’s hair
In the UK, the Tangle Teezer is deemed the detangling hero which I’ve been using happily for years, therefore I wasn’t expecting the WetBrush to top it,…