Anish Kapoor leaves art rivals seeing red over ‘world’s blackest black’
It is not a paint, but a material made of carbon nanotubes – Kapoor’s particular version is sprayable – that allows for no shadows or demarcations. According…
Life After Life, review: a Groundhog Day period drama that makes you care about its characters
It’s BBC period drama time. Adopt the brace position. What crimes against historical accuracy are we about to witness? Which 21st-century preoccupations will be shoehorned into the…
Boris Johnson: BBC more critical of Rwanda migrant plan than Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion
On the same morning, the Archbishop of York joined the Archbishop of Canterbury in criticising the plan to send migrants to Rwanda. In his Easter Sunday sermon…
Boris Johnson flies to India ahead of ‘dishonesty’ vote
Yet his intervention proved an outlier as most Tory MPs who spoke in the debate gave support to Mr Johnson, many citing the Ukraine war as the…
How much Boris Johnson was fined and what the law says about Covid fixed penalty notices
Meanwhile, the leaving party for two No 10 employees in Jan 2021 broke the rule banning individuals from meeting people socially with anyone outside of their household. …
Boris must’ve wished he was anywhere but facing ‘partygate’ fury … apparently Rwanda is nice
Boris Johnson is one of Britain’s most accomplished apologisers (the Tories once sent him to Liverpool to say sorry to an entire city). Now, having been persuaded…
Boris Johnson is not out of the woods
The decision of the Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, to allow a vote on whether the Prime Minister’s breach of lockdown regulations should be referred to the…
Veil ban in schools sees Muslim girls get better grades and more mixed marriages
Banning the veil in schools led to Muslim girls getting better grades and more of them marrying outside their religion, a French study has found. State schools in…
Saying sorry won’t be enough to save Boris Johnson from the voters’ wrath
What exactly is a “full-throated apology”, to which we were treated by Boris Johnson in the Commons? It is clearly better than a mealy-mouthed version uttered from…
US mask ruling causes confusion as Joe Biden’s flagship Covid policy falls apart
The latest ruling comes months after the Supreme Court voted down Mr Biden’s plans to make large companies require that all their staff are vaccinated or masked…
Russia seizes Ukrainian village to claim first ‘victory’ in battle for the Donbas
The General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said in an evening statement that the Russian attacks near Izyum were unsuccessful and that a counter-attack had recaptured…
Theresa May: I cannot support Priti Patel’s Rwanda migrants policy
Writing for The Telegraph, Mr Timothy, who also served as chief of staff to Mrs May in Downing Street, said: “The problem with the new asylum policy…
Civil servants working from home, beware – Jacob Rees-Mogg is making spot checks on offices
Multiple government “crises” have been blamed on civil servants working from home and leaving ministers “without support”. “It was notable that the departments where we’ve had so…
Boris Johnson will not ‘publicly lecture’ India on Ukraine as he chases trade deal
The Prime Minister has announced the UK will stop importing Russian oil by the end of the year and will phase out Russian gas imports. Mr Johnson…
Boris Johnson ‘no longer worthy’ to be Prime Minister after ‘partygate’ fine, says Mark Harper
Mr Johnson said he had taken “significant steps to change the way things work in Number 10” after the departures of five key advisers in early February….
Questor: simplifying can pay off – but what about spending cash on your own shares?
Comment: Share buybacks With nearly £33bn of share buybacks already announced by 29 of its members, the FTSE 100 is comfortably on track to surpass 2018’s record…
Savers enjoy biggest rate rise in more than a decade
However, Isa rates still lag behind pre-pandemic levels and savers risk their money being eroded by inflation, despite three successive interest rate rises by the Bank of…
Five blunders caused by civil servants working from home
4. Passport delays have forced holidaymakers to abandon trips Holidaymakers have had to cancel trips abroad because of delays in the processing of passport applications. Anyone who…
‘I’ve been parking on my neighbour’s land for 20 years. Can I keep doing it?’
Dear Property Doctors, We have used an area which we don’t own for the last 21 years to park our cars. It has been used as a…
Attacks on Rishi Sunak’s wife are based on ignorance – she is fully entitled to non-dom tax breaks
When you enter political life you become a target for criticism. In particular, no one becomes chancellor expecting to be popular. Rishi Sunak has acknowledged that. After…
The town where 15pc of homes changed hands in a year
“We enjoy watching the river traffic go by, as well as the many pubs, restaurants and coffee shops,” said Mr Pegley, 74. “We are looking forward to…
Should we really be nannying our boomerang kids?
Lisa Markwell: ‘By now I’d hoped for M&S dinners for two’ Perhaps it was having my umpteenth lukewarm shower, or perhaps it was wanting to find the…
Posh condiments are on the rise, but are they better than Heinz and HP?
British food is bland. It’s a common put-down and, if we’re honest, has kernels of truth. But while grey meat and over-boiled vegetables are mostly history, there’s…
The House of Lords is beyond wokeification
Oh, to be a fly on the wall as my noble and learned friends at the House of Lords reconvene after the Easter break next Monday. The…
Tick-box Britain has failed Ukrainian refugees
We already know, as the war in eastern Ukraine intensifies, that Britain has led the world in providing military and humanitarian aid, sanctions and global leadership. But…