‘Help me find a blazer that will make me look sophisicated’
It’s time to rediscover your fashion confidence and dip your toe back into something braver. In our Wardrobe Whisperer column, our team will find a solution for every…
Victoria Beckham: ‘It’s time to bring sexy back. I’m sick of comfort dressing’
These new pieces are designed to be comfortable, but they have nothing to do with lounging around. “It really was about bringing sexy back,” she says of…
Doing Veganuary? These are the 15 best vegan fashion brands to know
In January 2021, more than 580,000 people signed up to do ‘Veganuary’, pledging to cut all meat and dairy from their diet for the month. But what about…
Moving mountains: The women scaling new heights to deliver safe abortion care
Every morning, Pragati Soti Khanal packs her huge grey and blue rucksack, ready to trek through Nepal’s famous mountains. But she is not packing crampons and climbing…
North Korean roads begin to empty as nation runs out of tyres
Civilian life is grinding to a halt across North Korea as the nation runs out of rubber tyres, according to reports. While the shortages appear to have…
Arab-Israeli-owned football club sold off amid sex abuse scandal
Beitar Jerusalem suspended its plans to sell a fifty per cent stake of the club to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan in February 2021. The decision…
Russia ‘preparing false-flag operation’ in Ukraine to spark invasion, US intelligence believes
Russia may have positioned operatives to carry out a “false-flag” operation in eastern Ukraine, US intelligence believes. A US official said the move would involve sabotaging Russia’s…
Silvio Berlusconi plays the bunga bunga card as he rallies support to become Italy’s next president
It has become shorthand for the alleged sex parties that Mr Berlusconi held at his mansion near Milan while serving as prime minister, in which showgirls and…
EU ‘at risk of unravelling’ as Romania challenges bloc’s law supremacy
The European Union is at risk of unravelling unless Brussels can stem the flow of countries challenging the supremacy of the bloc’s law, a legal expert has…
How Democrat dysfunction is stalling Joe Biden’s presidency
The reason for Mr Biden’s failure lies partially in his inability to corral his own dysfunctional party, but also in the longstanding inertia of Congress itself. It…
Scott Morrison, the prime minister who keeps people out of Australia
But Mr Trump’s successor Joe Biden didn’t seem to know the Australian at all. In a virtual meeting last year announcing the trilateral Aukus nuclear submarine deal,…
From ‘peacekeepers’ to a full-scale offensive: Vladimir Putin’s five options for invading Ukraine
Option one: More intimidation But there are still options to exhaust before starting a war. “Everyone is talking about invasion, but I can think of lots of…
The UK’s best hotel openings of 2021 – and hot tips for this year
Telegraph Travel’s Hotel Hit Squad columnists look back on their favourite stays of 2021, and what it was like in the world of hospitality. From new-age country…
The new Covid travel rules – from lateral flow testing to isolation requirements
The testing rules for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in the UK have been eased. Those travelling to the UK no longer have to take a pre-departure test…
Watch: Exploring the wildest corner of Britain – in winter
It would be lazy to call Shetland beautiful. Instead, its landscapes are often stark, harsh and austere – and in winter, even more so. But that is…
The five new golden rules for booking a holiday
The news that France is re-opening to British travellers is another welcome confidence boost and it will add rocket fuel to the huge surge in advance bookings…
The reinvention of Croatia, from tourism backwater to holiday behemoth
Croatian restaurants have also been through something of a revolution. “In the 1990s, restaurants had long menus offering dozens of dishes, and plates arrived heaped with food….
Why France will always be my favourite place to ski
Many have felt that President Macron has been bruising for a bust-up with Boris and us Brits. But now that there is a green light for tourists…
The 20 best cruises for 2022
Nothing can match the feeling of unalloyed joy at being at sea, or the excitement as your cruise ship slowly eases away from the dock. Even after…
The 10 best French cities for a spring minibreak – now we can visit again
Heat-seeking White Russians built the greatest orthodox cathedral outside their homeland. And when on the Promenade des Anglais sweeping round the bay, I can never think of…
The ‘stupid American’ exposing the dark side of the Chinese dream
“Life is short. When you look back, it’s late…” A man muses quietly to himself as he paces around his factory, piles of shrink-wrapped products – wiping-up…
After Life, series 3, review: Ricky Gervais’s grief-com has the emotional depth of a Post-It note
The third and final series of Ricky Gervais’s wildly popular grief-com After Life (Netflix) begins superbly. As ever, the episode starts with an old home video of…
Martin Freeman on The Responder: ‘Not all policemen are heroes’
“No one in this is a goody or a baddy,” says Freeman, “but essentially I think he’s a very decent human being. He’s probably been in the…
The House, Netflix, review: Roald Dahl meets Stephen King in eerie animated adventures
Wes Anderson’s 2009 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox invented the new genre of stop-motion animation starring cutesy animals weighed down with existential angst (a case…
Friday morning UK news briefing: No 10 parties as Queen mourned
Downing Street is embroiled in a fresh party controversy. The Telegraph can reveal that staff drank alcohol into the early hours at two leaving events the night…