Mouthwash and nine other ways to get rid of Covid
For many people, the pandemic is behind us. Yet Covid is spiking again, with about 126,000 new cases daily in the UK. While 21 million of us…
Michaela Strachan: Selfies are the worst – you just think, ‘How shallow are we all becoming?’
Best ever night out? It has to be the night I met my partner. I was in Cape Town, and I’d met him once. He said: “There’s…
Our obsession with ‘natural birth’ is failing mothers and their babies
Afterwards, a healthy baby wrapped beside me, all I felt was wonder and gratitude. My daughter’s birth seemed miraculous, every single person involved a saint. The NHS…
How to get rid of garden pests and treat plant diseases in the UK
Pests and diseases can plague gardens relentlessly by causing damage all year round – affecting seedlings, spoiling ornamental plants and rotting vegetables. The Royal Horticultural Society are often…
The jobs that will pay the highest salaries in 2040
Some jobs may not exist at all in the future: taxi drivers are likely to be replaced by self-driving cars; cashiers and retail staff will largely be…
The truth about growing hellebore hybrids in your garden
I have also said H. x hybridus is perfect for dry shade, as I grow sweeps of them intermingled with bulbs and other herbaceous plants under my…
The Ockenden Review must urgently deliver real change in the NHS
No parent should ever have to bury their own child. But to do so because a hospital refused again and again to learn from the same mistakes…
Biden is intent on wrecking Trump’s one clear foreign policy success
In the Middle East, there is always a counterpoint of violence accompanying any progress in Israeli-Arab relations. The spate of terrorist attacks inside Israel, killing eleven people…
Being ‘the party of the NHS’ is a poisoned chalice for the Tories
The Ockenden report into maternity care at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust will undoubtedly elicit concerned sentiments from past and present health secretaries. The brutal fact that…
Cancelling David Livingstone is the epitome of woke overreach
How did David Livingstone, arguably one of Scotland’s most famous abolitionists, end up on Glasgow’s iconoclast topple list? Glasgow City’s newly released report, Slavery and Atlantic Commerce,…
Jackie Weaver had the moral authority
A long-awaited report has finally been published and at its heart lies an incendiary conclusion. This isn’t Sue Gray’s big reveal of the partygate goings on at…
Chris Rock mocking Will Smith’s wife was cruel – but let’s not ban jokes about the way people look
There are times, though, when jokes about a public figure’s appearance are valid, and even useful. For 10 years I was The Telegraph’s parliamentary sketchwriter. And a…
Partygate offenders have no right to anonymity
The proudest boast of British law is open justice – that the public is entitled to know how and to whom justice is being applied. In the…
Ukraine must be allowed to decide its own future
In the fog of war, reality can be distorted but it does appear that the Russians have been forced to retrench their ambitions in Ukraine in the…
Angela Rayner’s attack is punctured … by a text from her Tory double-agent boss
Ms Rayner’s face froze. Not long after that, she got up and left the Chamber – unusual when it’s your own motion being debated – and there…
The monarchy is the opposite of anachronistic
Memorials are inherently elegiac, backward-looking events, but this one perfectly captured a forward-looking man. Of course the great and the good flocked solemnly into Westminster Abbey yesterday…
Partygate grilling is no romp for Boris at liaison session
A session in front of the liaison committee is never the saucy romp it sounds. The name conjures a sense of intrigue; heaving bosoms, the Vicomte de…
If Keir Starmer cannot say what a woman is then he’s not fit to be PM
It is the great new divide in British politics. No longer are the parties defined by their attitudes to taxation and spending. Gone are the days when…
Why did so many royals wear green at the Duke of Edinburgh’s Memorial Service?
While it often seems that almost every occasion, however sombre, has become a fashion photo opportunity, this is probably one instance where we can be fairly sure…
The seven secrets that will guarantee you’re always well dressed
Lesson three, keep an eye out for interesting fabrics (from herringbone to satin) and be ruthless about details. Sure, jewellery, tassels, fringes and feathers up the ante,…
The inside story of ‘Billionaire Towers’
In reality, a delve into the ownership reveals a microcosm of luxury property in the UK. The two most expensive penthouses were bought by Russian-born individuals who…
Diana Henry’s best afternoon tea recipes
Even though I cook food from all over the world, there are dishes that take me back to a place that’s at my core. Chicken soup, champ – a Northern Irish dish of potato mashed…
From Sporty Rishi to Weekend Rishi – decoding six looks from the Chancellor’s stealth wealth wardrobe
Nothing says ‘man of the people’ like a £335 pair of trainers, does it? Six days after unveiling one of the most draconian mini-budgets in living memory,…
Yes, you can buy a forever handbag for under £350 – if you know where to look
One of my personal favourite sources of luxurious-yet-affordable bags is Wandler, whose sophisticated bag shapes and colours make for modern classics. Another label to add to your…
The 5 items that will get you through this lion-lamb weather
Well, that was fun while it lasted. For a moment – a brief moment – we were inclined wantonly to cast away our socks and bare an…