A Tory peer wants to ban cyclists from using their phones. I’ve got a better idea
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering, a Conservative peer, says we should ban cyclists from using mobile phones. It’s a sensible suggestion. Admittedly, drivers might prefer it if we…
Hospitals are still clinging on to cruel Covid rules
At the height of the pandemic, and particularly before the arrival of the vaccines, restrictions on hospital visitors made some sense. The inability of the NHS to…
Climate anxiety is driving the West into dangerous mass hysteria
I watched a broadcast interview with one of the Extinction Rebellion protesters who was blocking an oil refinery. Whether the effect was what the television producer had…
The US Religious Right’s love-affair with Putin now looks positively grotesque
They denounce the West as a civilisation that has succumbed to degeneracy and nihilism and, until recently, they glorified Vladimir Putin as a “lion of Christianity”. The…
How to decorate your home in time for Easter
Alex Fox, a stylist from John Lewis’s home department, points out that decorating for Easter can be more fun than decorating at Christmas, as there is less…
Tina Brown: ‘Diana would have loathed the idea of a Queen Camilla… but we’re 25 years on’
Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, a badly shaken Royal family embraced dullness like a spouse returning gratefully to the marital bed after…
Losing my dad was a hellish journey, but also in a way the greatest gift
In my early 20s, over the course of two years, I lost my dad to glioblastoma, an aggressive kind of brain cancer. It would be an impossible…
Mark Hix’s nostalgic three-course feast for Easter Sunday
Apart from chocolate eggs and hot cross buns, a lot of us don’t really celebrate Easter in a foodie sort of way. Around the world, those who…
Dear Richard Madeley: ‘Why don’t my long-term friends call me first?’
Dear Richard, After 55 years of marriage, time spent in the forces and several moves, over the years we have obviously met many people. Some have become…
My Annie Hall chinos are the most hard working piece in my wardrobe
Gant, £125, gant.co.uk; Joseph, £285, joseph-fashion.com; Toast, £185, toa.st Of course today you don’t have to resort to the men’s department for wide-leg trousers or chinos. These…
I’ve tried hundreds of trench coats – here’s how to find the right one for you
So apart from the colour issues, the looking best when you’re naked beneath it, and the fact that its major selling point (keeping you dry) isn’t always…
The politics of French election style – and why they do it so much better than the British
There is a startled pause on the other end of the line when I ask a stylist in Paris whether a French politician would ever dress like…
Why Brooklyn Beckham’s Vogue wedding is a match made in brand heaven
The merger will occur tomorrow, at the Peltz family’s $76 million, 44,000 sq ft, 27-bedroom, oceanfront house in Palm Beach, Florida, after some 300 guests have enjoyed…
‘It hurts but we must find them’: Siblings’ agony as they search for family killed in Borodyanka
Emergency service workers cannot predict how long the recovery operation will take. They suspect there could be 50 people, if not more, buried beneath the rubble, which…
Poignant sketches reveal dire conditions in Myanmar’s largest jail
“We’re no longer humans behind bars,” said Mr Nyi Nyi Htwe, 24, who smuggled the sketches out of the prison when he was released in October, after…
I live in fear of being extradited to China, says sanctioned British academic
A British academic has told the Telegraph that she is now worried about travelling abroad and has seen her life’s work impacted after becoming one of nine…
Democrats panic as Biden polls go down in face of soaring fuel prices
Morgan Griffith, a Republican congressman representing a rural area of Virginia, where people depend on cars, said: “Let’s face it, gas prices were going up substantially before…
Donald Trump Jr ‘texted White House official’ with strategies to overturn father’s election defeat
The text was sent on November 5, two days before US cable networks called the race for Joe Biden. The strategies it laid out reflected those Mr…
Shock poll election boost for Marine Le Pen as 18-24 year-olds back her over Emmanuel Macron
In Paris’s youthful Ménilmontant neighbourhood, young voters lining the cafe terraces were split between those backing Mr Mélenchon – France’s answer to Jeremy Corbyn – and those…
‘They killed people one by one to keep us afraid’: How Russian war crimes tore apart a quiet block in Bucha
He took his first tentative steps in the apartment, lurching from Sergei’s supportive arms towards Maria’s embrace. When he was naughty and refusing his meals, it was…
Russians soldiers in Chernobyl ‘picked up radioactive material with bare hands’ and contaminated inside of plant
One Russian military ration box discovered exhibited radiation levels 50 times above naturally occurring values, CNN reported. There was also evidence of a recent fire in the…
Volodymyr Zelensky’s wife says she and children have not seen president since start of the conflict
Ms Zelenska said women in Ukraine have faced “complete insecurity, the threat of violence” since the invasion, and shared their plights. “There are tens of thousands of…
Boris Johnson promises armoured vehicles and more missiles in secret meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky
The visit was planned last week in secrecy, with only around half a dozen officials aware it was taking place. Despite the Russian military’s declaration that it…
Russian general taking over Ukraine campaign is the man who flattened Syria’s cities
The thick-set 60-year-old career officer, unsmiling and with pale blue eyes, looks every inch a Russian military commander. He is best-known for leading the initial military intervention…
Spying, satire and revenge: The bitter rivalry that created Rome’s greatest sights
Michelangelo struggled to shake off the competition. Once the Sistine ceiling was finished, it was Raphael who got the commission to design the spectacular tapestries which were…