Shop for victory! Now is the time to buy British food
We must face that it’s crunch time for British food shoppers – and not just because of Russia. According to market research specialists Kantar, grocery price inflation…
Is this the end of the smear test?
A leading cancer prevention researcher has said women who’ve had the HPV vaccine might only need as few as one smear test in their lifetime. Professor Peter…
Can a smart watch help you manage stress?
After two years of lockdowns, home-working, home-schooling, restrictions, and now a war in Ukraine, it’s no surprise we’re stressed about stress. According to data from Google Trends,…
It turns out some people get cooler with age – here’s how
It has been confirmed that Paul McCartney will be headlining Glastonbury in June, one week after he turns 80, which means the rumour is now official: Paul…
The 125 women killed by men since Sarah Everard – and what it tells us about Britain today
Their names are barely known, except to families and friends. But two other women and a teenage girl were killed by men in the same week that…
Stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things are keeping our hopes alive
We might well wish to, but our sheer humanity is what stops us. We watch in horror, not prurience. And because we watch, we can never again…
In Kyiv, babies are being born into the maw of hell
Just over a week ago, Serhii was planning Caesarean sections for his patients who were overdue. “Now I don’t know if I can walk to work without…
The oligarchs are turning on Russia’s new tsar
It is a sure sign that all is not well in the court of Vladimir Putin when some of the country’s more prominent oligarchs dare to question…
If Sadiq Khan is serious about keeping women safe, he should bring back the Night Tube
What happened to Sarah Everard a year ago was unspeakably terrible; an indictment of the police and of the society that allowed someone like Wayne Couzens, the…
Vladimir Putin has lost the information war
As Russian troops encounter fierce resistance across Ukraine, the Kremlin is losing another battle, waged across mobile phones and computers around the world. These are the social…
We were supposed to rein in Big Tech – now we’re making them Britain’s woke police
Four years in the making, the Government’s long-awaited Bill to ‘rein in’ the tech companies looks set to do precisely the opposite. The Bill, due within weeks,…
Britain’s new immigration system has proven Remainers wrong
Two years have passed since we left the European Union, yet staunch Remainers still view bad news stories through the prism of confirmation bias. Like the Japanese…
Why Ukraine is not in danger of becoming the next Belarus
As the Russian military advances onto Kyiv, some might wonder: will Ukraine become the next Belarus? A police state and vassal of Russia, one that ruthlessly suppresses…
Escalating our military role in Ukraine is too nightmarish to contemplate
Mounting civilian deaths in Ukraine have prompted renewed discussion of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) and its potential role in helping the international community deal with…
Scrutiny of oligarchs should be thorough but fair
Boris Johnson continues to face questions about specific Russian oligarchs who have been spared sanctions. They include Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club, and senior…
In a screeching U-turn, longtime Auntie-basher Nadine Dorries is reduced to tears by the BBC
As ever, Labour welcomed the ministerial statement but wondered why it hadn’t gone further. Shadow minister Chris Elmore sought assurances that “no Russian or Belorussian will play…
Sport matters to Vladimir Putin – we can use it to cause him real pain
With each day that Vladimir Putin’s tanks roll further into Ukraine, the Russian dictator has the blood of more and more innocent Ukrainian civilians all over his…
The best sofas for comfort and style, tried and tested
In the average sofa’s 11-year lifetime, it will be used for an estimated 6,500 hours of TV-watching and approximately 2,700 hours of reading, according to a semi-scientific…
At 60, I can finally spot the hallmarks of a true friend
When I started primary school in my too-long uniform, ready to leave Mum at the gates, the teacher suggested I hold the hand of a little girl…
I reunited with my first love after 50 years – it was a disaster
We had met in Italy in the late sixties when I was on a gap year. I was an unsophisticated 21-year-old, and this was a huge adventure for me….
Go Ape’s founders on selling up to their employees: ‘It’s not socialism, it’s stakeholder capitalism’
As it happened, the kids were more than on board. Tristram describes their elder son Patrick, who has helped out at refugee camps in Calais, as the…
The picture which shows how the Duchess of Cambridge is taking a style lead from Diana
Equally, in many of Princess Diana’s most famous early images she is either in country attire, colourful jumpers or a simple shirt. This includes a 1988 shoot…
Removing one item before you leave the house is still the best fashion rule
There are, it turns out, many ways to be a minimalist, depending on where you come from – or aspire to come from. A Parisian minimalist, for…
Ukraine-Russia evening briefing: Five key developments as Putin says he wants to ‘seize the whole of Ukraine’
Images have emerged of landing ships capable of launching tanks and hundreds of troops ashore. One Ivan Gren-class Landing Ship, thought to be the Pyotr Morgunov and…
Ukraine-Russia evening briefing: Putin tells Macron he ‘wants to seize whole of Ukraine’
As fears over Putin’s intentions grow, Guy Kelly and Sarah Newey examine how eyes are once again turning to the network of underground shelters built in the…