The 10 essential questions you need to ask before changing your car this year

The bad news from oil industry experts is that prices could continue rising, possibly passing £2 per litre for petrol, with diesel going even higher. Dr Amrita…

Is this the final straw for the family farm?

Richard Fisher’s family has run a dairy farm near Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, for the past 64 years. It has weathered the financial crash, resisted rewilding and avoided every…

Calorie counts on menus won’t work – and they’ll suck the fun out of eating out

And so, coming to a takeaway, a café or a pub near you, is this sledgehammer of calorie-hating force that will paint devil’s horns on the scones…

Would you pay a restaurant to eat your own cake?

Not everyone agrees. “The thing we get to do, which is the greatest privilege, is to be the place where people mark the moments in their life,”…

The £150 test that will transform how your medicine works

Imagine a future where your medication is tailored to you. No trial and error, fewer side effects – a pill that works faster and more effectively. You’re…

Correctly diagnosing symptoms can be a tricky task

Doctors, being fallible, sometimes get it wrong, the more culpably so when dismissing their patients’ symptoms as being “all in the mind”. My first, never to be…

Mr Loophole: ‘Back surgery has made me want to take an even greater bite out of life’

Covered by private health care – the operation is available on the NHS, but current waiting lists are around a year – Freeman was referred to a…

Our sex life is electric, but half the time we hate each other

After 20 years of marriage, somehow our sex life is better than ever – even more of a miracle given that outside of the bedroom, most of…

My electric car journey from hell shows buyers must beware

This week, Grant Shapps announced a target of 300,000 more chargers across the country by 2030, the year when the Government says it will ban the sale…

We must take back control of our strategic industries from China

It is beggars belief that the Government is going to stand idly by whilst Nexperia, a Chinese-controlled company, attempts to take over Britain’s largest microchip factory, and…

Nicola Sturgeon is addicted to Covid powers

When the Scottish Government launched a public consultation on whether ministers should have the power to amend primary legislation by decree during an emergency, the response was,…

Carrie Lam’s legacy: the permanent destruction of Hong Kong’s liberties

Three months after Carrie Lam took office as Hong Kong’s Chief Executive in 2017, she denied me entry to the city that had once been my home….

Easter chaos proves we are not yet ‘living with Covid’ – we are living under it

The problem with the now-unproveable Covid excuse gets worse: it’s now synonymous with something having gone wrong, with no explanation required. Which makes it an all too…

It may take years, but we must aim to lock Putin in jail for life

It may seem a hypothetical too far to imagine the trial of the Russian leader – an exercise in wish-fulfilment at a time when barbaric war crimes…

Demoralised and incompetent, Putin’s army is marching to its doom

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Power rationing is a worrying echo of the 1970s

Parallels with the 1970s grow by the day with high levels of inflation, low growth and rapidly rising energy costs caused by an oil price shock. Now…

Building a war crimes case against Putin’s forces must start immediately

Terrible things happen in all wars. The deaths of combatants and fatalities among civilians are impossible to avoid without the overwhelming victory of one side and the…

Russia is incapable of fighting a ‘long war’

Fighting a war is really difficult – as we constantly find out every time a new one is started. Though they may begin with hopes of lightning…

Dear Richard Madeley: ‘My sister-in-law’s dementia care is too much for my brother’

Dear Richard,  My sister-in-law (who has recently been diagnosed with dementia) is still living at home with my brother. At the moment, he receives six hours of…

Shein: the stealth Chinese fashion brand that’s raising $100 billion

Unless you live with a teenager, you’re unlikely to know much about the brand that is breaking every fashion record going. That’s because Shein has systematically targeted…

Thanks Justin Bieber for this fashion moment – we needed a laugh

Can someone come to collect Justin Bieber please? He’s had too much sugar and run amok in his dad’s suit, nabbed his big sister’s beanie and it’s…

The dress you can wear all year round – and for any occasion

A good green dress is like having a best friend tucked away in your wardrobe: it has the potential to cheer you up, plus it can cope…

Not so fast: Autobahn speed limit proposals over Russian gas spark heated debate

For the liberal Free Democrats, speed limits are an unwanted infringement on the freedoms of car-loving Germans. Bijan Djir-Sarai, the Free Democratic Party secretary, accused the Greens…

‘This guy is brutal’: Joe Biden insists Vladimir Putin must face war crimes trial

Joe Biden has called for Vladimir Putin to face a war crimes trial, as he promised additional sanctions on Moscow. Appalled by the situation in the Ukrainian…

Monday evening news briefing: Debunking the conspiracies of a massacre

US president Joe Biden today branded Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” who must face trial after the atrocities emerged in the liberated towns.  As international outrage mounted,…