Savers to lose £50 a month as Bank ups inflation forecast
Those who use traditional easy-access savings accounts have around £5,000 on average, according to Office for National Statistics data analysed by consumer research firm Nimblefins. A typical…
£20k for moving your Isa: brokers offer bonuses in battle for customers
Britain’s biggest Isa providers are offering cash bonuses to customers who switch their investments, as stockbrokers battle for customers in the wake of stock market falls. Brokers…
How to prepare your finances for sustained interest rate rises
Savers are braced for a prolonged period of interest rate increases, as the Bank of England has raised rates to combat runaway inflation. The central bank has…
Don’t expect us to put up savings rates, banks warn
Savers should not expect savings rates to climb dramatically even as central interest rates have risen today, banks have warned. NatWest chairman Howard Davies told Radio 4’s…
Lloyds and Santander are first banks to increase mortgage rates
Banks have rushed to pass on higher mortgage costs to millions of customers, just moments after the Bank of England increased interest rates to 0.75pc. Lloyds Bank…
The true cost of charging an electric car at home
Telegraph reader John Ball, from Bradley Stoke, Bristol, knew his neighbour was installing a home charging point for his electric Mini. Ball didn’t bank on his own…
Head to the supermarket for these five brilliant bargain wines
Waitrose’s wine offer this week sees 25 per cent off, including sparkling wines and Champagne, if you buy any mixed six bottles until March 22. With more…
What ‘elite sleepers’ can tell us all about the eight hour myth
History is full of high achievers who claimed to need only a few hours sleep a night – from Leonardo da Vinci to Margaret Thatcher to Elon…
Tight jeans, Ibiza, dancing like a Tory – and other things that are not a good midlife look
You may have seen the pictures of Dominic West on the tiles the other night. If not, they could have been used in a public information broadcast…
Terry Waite: ‘Only a few days ago, I assured Nazanin her ordeal would come to an end’
It is not easy to follow this advice when one is subject to pressure from the media and for a period one becomes a major source of…
Friendship alone will not save Boris’s mission to Saudi Arabia
Boris Johnson might, on a personal level, be on cordial terms with Saudi Arabia’s all-powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But he is likely to find that,…
There’s nothing woke about online safety
It’s a momentous day in the digital age. Years in the making, and with countless improvements to strengthen the legislation, today the Government is introducing its world-first…
Starmer has turned Labour into a one-man show
It is often suggested by political observers, more in hope than in expectation, that if a challenge to Keir Starmer’s leadership were to emerge this side of…
Ukraine has long been shaped by the rise and fall of empires
Few may have noticed Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s innocent gaffe when he introduced Volodomyr Zelensky to the House of Commons and mentioned “The Ukraine”. The name itself means…
The Online Safety Bill makes a mockery of free speech
The Government’s Online Safety Bill has been described as a “world-first”, and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has even boasted that it is leading…
Those of us who don’t have space for a refugee care passionately too – we just want a way to show it
Charity, we all agree, begins at home. But the crisis in Ukraine has thrown us a curveball: whose home, exactly? The householders generously throwing open their doors…
Signs of a peace deal for Ukraine
Ukraine’s misery is unabated as Russian forces continue to pound towns and cities in an apparent effort to break the resolve of its population. But to what…
This endless torrent of scandals from the Met is destroying our trust in the police
Again: all of the above stories are from the past seven days. But we can go back further. The week before, a Met police officer was given…
I sometimes regret not having children, but I’ve found the next best thing
It’s been in the media a lot lately. Menopause. Celebrities are nailing their colours to the let’s-talk-about-it mast, you can download chatty, info-packed podcasts on the subject…
My daughter going to university inspired me to tackle my weight gain and lose 6st
Week after week, I grew in confidence. I started to talk more within the group, and I sat in the front row. The more weight I lost,…
Porsche reinvents the shooting brake for the electric age
To my eyes, the GTS Sport Turismo looks simply magnificent – even more desirable from some angles than the iconic Porsche 911 (leave your comments below!). The…
In defence of Princess Diana’s ‘terrible’ hair
In an interview with the Telegraph this week, the 84 year-old photographer David Bailey was reliably outspoken about his experience photographing the Royals. The Queen, he said,…
6 pieces Carole Middleton and the Duchess of Cambridge have in their wardrobes
The most stylish mother-daughter dressing is usually entirely inadvertent and bred from years of sharing the same house and often having the same body type. It doesn’t…
Volodymyr Zelensky condemns Germany for financing Russian invasion of Ukraine
Addressing the Bundestag by videolink from Kyiv, the besieged Ukrainian capital, the president reminded Germany of its own cold war history. “In three weeks of war to…
ExoMars mission suspended as European Space Agency cuts ties with Russia
The rover was built by Airbus in Stevenage and was scheduled to land on Mars in June 2023, where it was to drill deep into the planet…