World
What happened to lockdown’s 40,000 missed cancers?
There is rarely a good time or place to explain to a patient that they have an untreatable cancer. Three…
The great villain of Covid is China. Not Matt Hancock
The Telegraph has a hell of a scoop with its lockdown files, aka Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps. It’s a major public…
The decline and fall of Matt Hancock
When Covid first hit the headlines in early 2020, I remember asking myself a question: who’s the health secretary again?…
Hancock’s lockdown files show there was no Covid ‘plandemic’
For those of us who were cynical about the government’s pandemic response as it was unfolding in real time –…
Could Meghan and Harry’s eviction overshadow the coronation?
With the coronation a mere two months away, the ‘will they, won’t they’ speculation about the presence of the Duke…
Elly Schlein shouldn’t be a problem for Georgia Meloni
There is much excitement among western Europe’s chattering classes after Elly Schlein was elected the new leader of Italy’s left-wing…
Ukraine’s drone war on Russia could backfire
Vladimir Putin has sold his Ukrainian war to the Russian people by trying to find the sweet spot between existential…
The importance of exposing Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages
For a while now, I’ve been buried deep in a vault in the Daily Telegraph going through the Matt Hancock files. Like…
The horrifying cost of Hancock’s Covid testing targets
The Telegraph’s splash of leaked WhatsApp messages about Matt Hancock and care home testing is a devastating reminder of the…
Five things we’ve learned from Hancock’s lockdown files
It’s not just the spectre of Brexit that is haunting Westminster. Overnight the Telegraph has released a smorgasbord of stories…
There’s still a hint of life in the Tory party
Westminster is a place of consensus, orthodoxy and prevailing wisdom. At any given moment, there is the Narrative, the story…
How Afghanistan erred by thinking Biden would never leave
By now, the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is etched into history as a failure — one that punctured the…
The Windsor Framework isn’t the blessing Scottish nationalists think it is
Is the Windsor Framework a get-out-of-jail card for Scottish nationalists? The excitement expressed in SNP circles at Rishi Sunak’s Protocol…
Is Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal all it’s cracked up to be?
Rishi Sunak’s ‘deal’ on the Northern Ireland Protocol is finally out. My first impression is that it is no ‘deal’…
Labour’s ‘menopause action plan’ is an insult to women
Only once have I been asked if I would like to be photographed with my head sticking out of a…
How the Tories should address Britain’s future
Michael Gove gave a speech at the thinktank Onward for the launch of its Future of Conservatism project today. Here…
The Tories should be planting some bombs for Labour
The recent self-defenestration of Nicola Sturgeon led to a rash of columns listing her dazzling lack of actual achievements, many…
Why is the NHS denying women pain relief in childbirth?
Over the weekend it was reported that hospitals are implementing a ban on the gas and air used by women…
Rishi Sunak is not out of the woods yet
The reaction to Rishi Sunak’s Protocol changes has so far been at the upper end of expectations in No. 10.…
Inside the court of King Zelensky
The first hint that my audience with Volodymyr Zelensky might not be what I’d hoped for came with the emailed…
Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the ‘Windsor Framework’
For amateur talking heads, the words ‘protocol’ and ‘framework’ have always been troubling. Such terms suggest muddling technical detail, constitutional…
The endless possibilities of our new EU relationship
Rishi’s deal changes everything – even, even if it is eventually sunk by DUP obduracy. What really matters is the…
King Charles should have run a mile from the Brexit debate
Former princes meet presidents all the time. It’s a crucial element of the day job. The key for royals, as…
It’s the end of the Buttigieg world as we know it
Out of Politico last week came news that the global village’s Mayor Pete isn’t happy with the heat he’s been…
Has Rishi Sunak pulled this off?
Ahead of Rishi Sunak unveiling his revised deal on the Protocol, there was no shortage of Tory MPs – including…
