‘Becoming an orphan in my 40s made me feel anchorless’
Losing your last surviving parent unearths an extra grief on top of the grief of the individual losses. It is the very singular grief of being an…
A chilling totalitarian impulse is now subverting free societies from within
Have you begun to suspect that at least some of the people who have been responsible for seeing us through, or reporting on, the Covid crisis are…
Exclusive: Taking turns on Wilf’s slide and spilling wine on the office printer – new details of Downing Street party revealed
The Telegraph can detail new allegations about what took place that evening, which is said to have seen around 30 people in total attend the leaving parties….
It’s time to topple the failed lockdown elites
A university student called Sophie Corcoran could not have put it more starkly when she described the devastating toll Covid has taken on her generation. Welling up…
Why it’s time to end Covid self-isolation
When the spread of a new pathogen causes severe disease and death in any sector of the population, many decisions have to be made on the basis…
Covid death rates fell over Christmas as ministers debated new restrictions
The ONS data show that Covid fell to fourth place in the leading causes of death in England, from third last November. The death rate was only…
New ‘work from home’ guidance: should I return to the office and what are my rights?
Boris Johnson has scrapped guidance that urged Britons to “work from home” where possible, as Plan B measures aimed at tackling the spread of Covid-19 come to an…
What the pandemic has really done to our children’s minds
Which might go some way to explaining why Oxford University Press has chosen ‘anxiety’ as the children’s Word of the Year for 2021. Researchers for the Children’s…
The most unforgivable lockdown error was our neglect of children
What were you doing on May 20th 2020? The Prime Minister was, as we now know, enjoying a “work event” in the Downing Street garden, but Britain’s…
The health bureaucracy is still failing cancer patients
As a cancer survivor, I have felt the mounting desperation of many during the pandemic. The Government’s sole focus on Covid left many of us untreated, with…
Thousands of children have fallen off the radar during lockdown, warns Dame Rachel De Souza
Thousands of children have “fallen off the radar”, a government tsar has warned as she launches an inquiry to track down youngsters who are not in the…
‘Wildly incorrect’ Covid modelling bounced Boris Johnson into second lockdown, MPs told
Boris Johnson was bounced into the second coronavirus lockdown after a “terrifying” and “wildly incorrect” model warning of 4,000 deaths a day was leaked to the press,…
Boris deserves a chance to get back to real Conservatism
Yesterday, I presented a petition to Downing Street as part of the Together Declaration campaign group. We had collected around 200,000 signatures from people opposed to lockdown…
I was pilloried for being a lockdown sceptic – now it’s clear I was right about quite a few things
4. “Swings in our local park put into quarantine or removed – even though children were barely at risk from Covid as swings were outside.” 5. “No…
Sir Keir Starmer accused of hypocrisy after refusing to apologise for lockdown office drinks
He said: “The picture of me was in a constituency office up in the North East. It was, I think, three or four days before the May…
Carrie Johnson doesn’t deserve this criticism
From the first minute of her relationship with Boris Johnson being made public, the Prime Minister’s wife Carrie has faced a disproportionate – and, I would argue,…
Britain’s failed establishment will never apologise for the catastrophe of lockdown
The PM has apologised after being accused of breaking lockdown rules. Fine. But will anyone apologise for setting them? Some were clearly impossible or unnecessary, or why…
Monday morning UK news briefing: PM questioned over ‘partygate’
Amid the backdrop of discontent and uncertainty, Mr Johnson is plotting his fightback with his most trusted political allies who have rallied to his side. Loyalists were…
Letters: An outdoor party at Downing Street did no harm, but Boris Johnson still has to resign
SIR – The photo you published on Saturday showing Boris Johnson lounging in his office says it all. It shows our Prime Minister carelessly relaxing amid chaos and…
We have won the Covid war, now let’s win the peace
Surveying the long-term consequences of Covid restrictions reveals a bleak picture of collateral damage. The toll from borrowing mountains of debt, closing schools, disrupting social interaction, shutting…
Keir Starmer: My office beer doesn’t compare to Downing Street parties
He continued: “The party that was put to the Prime Minister on Wednesday happened because an invitation was sent to a hundred people saying ‘let’s have some…
Standing ovation addicts are really applauding themselves
The concluding words of the drama are spoken, the last note sounds in the auditorium – and while it still echoes, the audience is on its feet,…
We must restore decency, honour and trust at heart of our Government
The No10 party situation is now an embarrassment to me and many of my colleagues. When you think “that’s it”, there is more, and more. This is…
Tory MP: Downing Street staff partied but I couldn’t see my wife in hospital before our baby twins died
It came as further allegations surfaced that Downing Street staff were drinking so much during lockdowns that they brought in a fridge for weekly “wine-time Fridays”. Images…
Downing Street staff ‘brought in their own wine fridge for weekly parties’
Downing Street staff were drinking so much during lockdowns that they brought in a fridge for weekly “wine-time Fridays”, it has been alleged. Images obtained by the…