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Why the Green party abandoned its environmental roots
In the summer of 1972, Lesley Whittaker walked into a pub in rural Warwickshire. She had something for her husband…
The UAE and Oman could be the big winners from the Iran war
Sixty years ago, I first gazed out on the Strait of Hormuz from the Musandam peninsula of Oman. I was…
Potatoes are one of life’s great simple pleasures
My wife found the list in the back pocket of my gardening trousers. That ought to have been a clue,…
Organised crime is targeting artisanal food
Organised crime has a new focus: high-end food production. The latest victim is Wildfarmed, a UK-based, regenerative flour business co–founded…
Brussels is making your perfumes worse
‘Heliotropin,’ said the Frenchman mournfully. I was midway through lunch in Mayfair with Benoit Brosseau, whose father, Jean-Charles, created the…
How to solve the student debt crisis
England’s student debt is staggering. It comes to £270 billion – that’s larger than the budget for the NHS and…
The clandestine side of Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Scruton is remembered by most people as a conservative philosopher. Softly spoken and thoughtful in conversation, he was…
Frugal chic, the movement changing the way women shop
It is, apparently, a novel concept in our age of overconsumption, that life can still be enjoyable even if you…
‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left’: Steve Hilton on why he’s running to be California governor
‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left,’ Steve Hilton tells the lunch meeting…
The rise of the pocket money app
I am standing in the village Co-op with my eight-year-old daughter when she asks, inevitably, to be bought a magazine.…
The taxman is coming for the self-employed
Spare a thought for Mrs McClafferty & Co. Like thousands of small business owners, she has spent years managing things…
The end of Trumpism is nigh
Having Donald Trump as President probably resembles being a heroin addict: you undergo regular episodes of sweating terror and mortal…
‘We’ll wake up on 8 May and realise that the Conservative party’s gone’: Inside Reform’s plan to devour the Tories
When Zia Yusuf first walked into the headquarters of Reform UK, he gestured at the empty room and asked: ‘Where’s…
How the army can rediscover its fighting spirit
The seemingly endless debate about the hollowness of our armed forces has concentrated on size, technical capability and sustainability –…
The perils of London: a beginner’s guide
An interesting new perspective on London is doing the rounds. Our capital city is being advertised as a paradise. London,…
The hidden truth about our failing universities
Is it worth going to university? Since 1999, when Tony Blair declared higher education the answer to all society’s problems,…
Inside blockaded Cuba, life is getting odder by the day
It’s nearly two months since Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a total oil blockade on Cuba, and life…
The dying art of the kimono
‘The road was frozen… Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi [broad sash].…
‘We don’t know what’s going on or why we’re doing this’: how Trump’s Iran gamble backfired
‘Donald Trump is a complicated person with simple ideas,’ said Kellyanne Conway, the former White House senior counsellor. ‘Way too…
Revealed: Keir Starmer’s new plan to get closer to the EU
A Labour MP, reflecting on the problems the Prime Minister faces over the war in Iran, observed this week: ‘Keir…
Those who believe in liberalism must now fight for it
I’m conscious that, just as the easiest way to lose an argument is to mention Hitler, so the easiest way…
How the Germans saved the Telegraph
I spent my last year as editor of this magazine trapped on an auction block, hunting for a new proprietor.…
My phobia is not to be sneezed at
In January 1894, an assistant of Thomas Edison made a five-second silent film of Fred Ott taking snuff and then…
‘Here’s a novel concept – arrest bad people’: how Sir Stephen Watson saved Greater Manchester Police
Sir Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), is Warrington-born, Rhodesia-raised. His father was an engineer in the…
How to master the left-wing brag
No one likes a blatant boaster. So, as adults, we learn that if we want to boast, we must be…
