Novak Djokovic, the world’s No 1 ranked tennis player, is no stranger to court victories but none has been as dramatic as his legal battle to win the right to contest the Australian Open this month. He was detained on arrival... Read more
Have low interest rates created broader problems than politicians and people realise? In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, interest rates were slashed from 5.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent and we have become addicted to cheap... Read more
If being watched by precisely no one was any kind of excuse for the Golden Globes to go rogue, you’d never know it from the winners they announced last night. Almost across the board, they were guessable: the big favourites... Read more
Early morning at Kilphedir Pool, Sutherland, and the slow-flowing river reflects a radiant sky. The painting has an exhilarating air. Executed by HRH The Prince of Wales, it captures beautifully the blowy capriciousness of Highlands weather: brilliantly sunny one moment,... Read more
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton’s beloved children’s adventure, is to get a modern makeover with a lesson about sexism. Jacqueline Wilson is writing a new version of the story, updated for the 21st century, in which three siblings named... Read more
In 1939, Trott made several trips back to England to lobby British officials and his friends – which included his meeting with the Astors and Chamberlain while on his double mission for both the Auswärtiges Amt and resistance. Back in... Read more
Whedon got the project over the finish line. But the quippy style he had pioneered with Buffy and with the first two Avengers film landed flat. There was a clear clash between the tone the two directors had envisaged (Snyder... Read more
What the show is far more interested in proving is how similar these women are, beneath the trappings of generational idiom. Again, it’s obvious from that very first meeting, as they match each other insult for insult, like a romcom’s... Read more
Euphoria, series 2 episode 1 review: this show is determined to shock – but Grange Hill did it first
My first instinct was to tell you not to watch Euphoria (Sky Atlantic) if you are the parent of teenagers. You will experience it not so much as a television drama but as a relentless assault on your nerves. Drugs,... Read more
Monday January 10 Couples TherapyBBC Two, 10pm; NI, 11.15pmBought in from American cable network Showtime, this docuseries trains hidden cameras on four New York couples (aware, of course, that they’re being filmed, but seemingly not playing up to it)... Read more
For battle-scarred cinephiles, this presents a quandary. Obviously we want Scorsese to be able to spend whatever he likes on a book adaptation he’s been mulling since the 1980s. But if we’ve any interest in the long-term health of our... Read more
“I remember saying to him, I’m going to go to the police. And he said to me, nobody’s going to believe you Kate,” she claimed on a podcast by Tortoise Media. “I’m a Member of Parliament, the blue eyed boy,... Read more
“Sometimes when you hear people talk about learning to live with Covid, what seems to be suggested is that one morning we’ll wake up and not have to worry about it any more, and not have to do anything to... Read more
On Monday, Prof Graham Medley, the chairman of the Spi-M modelling group, which advises the Government on the virus, said ministers would reach a stage where mass vaccination is no longer cost effective. “The decisions that the Government makes about... Read more
Importers are set to face hundreds of pounds of extra charges when the next wave of post-Brexit checks affecting food products are introduced this summer, port bosses have warned. Industry leaders are braced for bigger disruptions in July when physical... Read more
Lord Lamont told The Telegraph: “The alternative, which I would prefer, would be to lessen the social and environmental levy, which accounts for 12 per cent of the bill. When people say energy costs are out of the Government’s control,... Read more
Tony Blair was an “outstanding statesman” and any fair-minded person would agree, Michael Gove has said after calls for the former Prime Minister to be stripped of his knighthood. The Conservative minister defended the former Labour leader after a petition... Read more
“You have to empower people by telling them what is going on, but I get the feeling that some of the UK scientists didn’t want to use the word ‘mild’, they only want to use the word ‘severe’.” Her suspicion... Read more
After two years of fiercely policed lockdowns and restrictions, Australians, like Britons, feel rightly outraged when they perceive one rule for the elites – be they participants in the G20 and COP26 jamborees, Hollywood celebrities or tennis stars – and... Read more
By rights, omicron ought to have humiliated the pro-lockdowners. Their apocalyptic narrative has spectacularly collapsed. Daily deaths remain relatively stable, at less than a sixth of the figure projected by some Sage modelling. Premonitions that the Johnson Government had “left... Read more
Beyond the Chancellor, the Telegraph has been told that others who would favour the move because of potential economic benefits are Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the International Trade Secretary, and Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, provided it... Read more
On Monday Adam Wagner, a leading lawyer and expert on Covid regulations, said: “This looks unlikely to be legal for attendees. Being outside the home was illegal at the time unless (the only potentially relevant exception) it was for the... Read more
Michael Gove has clashed with the Treasury over plans to overhaul British manufacturing because of concerns about the costs involved, in a blow to his levelling up agenda. The Housing Secretary has been warned not to go ahead with a... Read more
“It’s all a matter of money,” Mr Drax added. “If we are going to ask these brave men to do these things, the least we could do is provide them with the facilities to do it.” Johnny Mercer, the former... Read more
A number of police forces have stopped issuing new gun licences, it has emerged, amid claims the system has fallen into chaos. “Untenable” delays to the processing system mean that in some areas, firearms holders are waiting more than six... Read more