We should respond early to omicron trends
When I was outside Government last year, I made several interventions highlighting the social and economic costs of the pandemic. Then, when I found myself parachuted at…
Holy Land Christians are at threat of extinction
I have the privilege to serve and lead the Franciscan Friars living in the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East. For over 800 years, we have…
Lord Frost’s resignation forces Conservatives to ask what they stand for
Lord Frost’s courageous resignation is a turning point in the history of this administration. A man of integrity, accomplishment and, crucially, principle, he was essential to achieving…
Strictly Come Dancing 2021 Final: Rose and Giovanni lift the Glitterball in emotional finale
Rose Ayling-Ellis was the hot favourite going into the final – and even more so when competitor AJ Odudu was forced to pull out with an injury,…
Gomorrah, season 5, review: Roberto Saviano’s Mafia epic goes out in style
He knows, too, when to keep a low profile and, having just wiped out several mortal enemies, is currently hiding in a bunker, separated from wife Azzurra…
Strictly Come Dancing 2021 Final, review: historic night as Rose and Giovanni are crowned champions
The finalists had been introduced dancing in front of huge glowing stars in an opening pro dance to the strains of Boy Meets Girl’s Waiting for a…
Peggy For You, Hampstead Theatre review: Tamsin Greig plays it cool in this biting classic
It’s late at night, or early in the morning, towards the end of the 1960s. Margaret “Peggy” Ramsay – the foremost play agent of her time, her…
Boris Johnson is a classical Greek hero: The audience is waiting for him to fall
Boris is also fond of quoting The Iliad, the epic in which Achilles’s notorious heel is perhaps a metaphor for his unwillingness to acknowledge weaknesses: vainglorious contempt…
Sage seeks ‘immediate’ curtailment of indoor mixing, putting Christmas gatherings at risk
Instead, they are suggesting imposing restrictions until everyone has had a chance to have their booster vaccination, plus an additional two weeks to allow immunity to build….
Lord Frost resigns as Brexit Minister over Covid Plan B and direction of Boris Johnson’s Government
Lord Frost has told Boris Johnson that he is resigning from the Cabinet due to “disillusionment” with the direction of the Government. The Brexit Minister, who was…
Lord Frost quits the Cabinet as Boris Johnson considers Christmas Covid lockdown
But Cabinet members were said to have warned that the country risked falling into a cycle of annual winter restrictions if the Government continued to resort to…
Patriotism on the wane among young Left-wing Americans, with only five per cent saying US is best
When it came to Left-wing respondents aged 18-29, a paltry five per cent believed that the US was the finest nation on the globe. More than half…
Former senior aide to Boris Johnson urges him to replace his chief of staff as part of major reset
Meanwhile, Danny Kruger, a ministerial aide in Michael Gove’s Levelling Up department, and Miriam Cates, another member of the 2019 intake of MPs, write in The Telegraph…
Rishi Sunak weighing emergency measures for hospitality and tourism amid ‘unofficial lockdown’
The Confederation of British Industry warned of a “lockdown by stealth,” as Britons subsequently began steering clear of social gatherings and hospitality venues. The CBI and other…
The Conservative Party needs to show its faith in the intelligence and capabilities of the people
We lost North Shropshire on Thursday for the simple reason that our supporters didn’t turn out in sufficient numbers to resist the tactical alliance of our opponents….
How angry Tories reacted to the shock by-election defeat in North Shropshire
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Veteran Tory MP and treasurer of the backbench 1922 Committee “I think we’ve got to calm down. This was a very bad result but…
Boris Johnson’s handling of the Owen Paterson sleaze scandal was the ‘kiss of death’ for the Tories
Andy Whitemore, 73, reflected on the result while out shopping with his wife Alison. “I’m not surprised [Morgan’s] won,” says Andy. The pair had also noticed the…
Apathy, anger and a PM ‘losing his grip’: how Tory woes, not local issues, decided the North Shropshire by-election
Despite Labour finishing in second place at the last general election in 2019, a consensus quickly emerged that it was the Lib Dems who were most likely…
The bloated public sector is stifling any chance of a strong recovery
In November, despite the furlough scheme ending and despite older workers opting for early retirement in worryingly high numbers, there were 257,000 more people in work than…
We oldies had our moment – we cannot ask the young to lockdown again now
According to the QCovid risk calculator run by the University of Oxford, a male aged 60 with no risk factors has a 2.3 percent chance of dying…
The forgotten Covid cohort who will leave school without sitting an exam
Michael Smyth, Director of Studies at St Mary’s Calne, a girls independent school in Wiltshire, doesn’t believe that you can compare the work done by the Covid…
Vaccine passports are an ‘affront to British and democratic values’ and do not work, says government aide
A government aide has said vaccine passports are an “affront to British and democratic values” and “do not work”. Joy Morrissey MP – who last week accused…
Covid 10-day isolation period could be shortened to a week with the same effect, says Prof Lockdown
Sage predicts a significant increase in hospital admissions, to roughly 3,000 a day. However, a comparable increase has not played out in South Africa, where the outbreak…
How ‘green’ investing could cost you a fortune in 2022
Britain’s highest dividend payers will be “sin stocks” in 2022, in a blow for green, income-seeking investors. The highest yielding stocks for 2022 will be miners Evraz,…
Rising interest rates trigger fears of house price falls
The persistent strength of both the labour market and inflation suggest that the Bank could be pushed to raise rates higher than anticipated, said Mr Wishart. Job…