Columnists

The Covid Inquiry gets worse by the day – can no one take responsibility for anything?

The scientists are throwing bamboozled Boris under the bus, but their focus on flattening the curve ended up flattening a whole society

Allison Pearson 22 Nov 2023, 8:14am

Camilla Tominey

Sunak’s talk of tax cuts shows he knows what trouble the Tories are in

Allison Pearson

The Covid Inquiry gets worse by the day – can no one take responsibility for anything?

Allister Heath

The Tories’ calamitous failure to control our borders has driven them to the verge of oblivion

Fraser Nelson

Failure to reform asylum laws is inhumane – and Rishi must say so

Janet Daley

Corrupted by extremist Islamists, the Left is now openly anti-British

Nick Timothy

Millennials have every right to moan – Chancellor, give them a chance

Philip Johnston

Reckless public spending is pushing the country towards the debt abyss

Charles Moore

Cameron is a wiser man now. His return is welcome

Juliet Samuel

Universities can cancel your degree for wrongthink – and there’s no real right to appeal

Madeline Grant

Universities have become incubators for hatred

Sherelle Jacobs

A new Right-wing party will replace the Tories if they keep surrendering to the establishment

Daniel Hannan

The decadent West has come face to face with the future - and the end of its dominance

Bryony Gordon

Why the perfect time to start a party is 5pm

Who wants to go to something that starts at 8pm, when by this point, you could have taken off your make-up and got into your pyjamas?

Bryony Gordon
It’s official: the Government don’t care about the nation’s mental health

Bryony Gordon
Living in half a room has liberated us from buying things we simply don’t need

Bryony Gordon
Celebrities are giving opinions about Israel as if they were members of the cabinet

Bryony Gordon

Celia Walden

Men who want to spend more time with the children? More often than not, it’s Grandpa

The King's new schedule confirms that as men get older, children suddenly become more enchanting

Celia Walden
Robbie Williams is right to make his kids fly economy – there’s nothing worse than a first-class brat

Celia Walden
Margaret Thatcher was a style icon – but the V&A don’t seem to realise

Celia Walden
Sex education in schools is so warped we’ve forgotten to teach kids how to have babies

Celia Walden

Suzanne Moore

With David Cameron’s appointment the Conservatives are heading towards full civil war

When we look back, the former PM's legacies of Brexit and austerity caused huge fractures within his party and within the country

Suzanne Moore
Matt Hancock’s Celebrity SAS beasting beats the Covid inquiry

The soldiers said the former Health Secretary’s attitude made him a liability – the same is true for the rest of his sorry government

Suzanne Moore

Michael Deacon

This has to be the Left’s most pathetic anti-Israel protest yet

The poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine has dramatically resigned over Gaza. Surely Netanyahu cannot survive this blow

Michael Deacon 21 Nov 2023, 7:00am

Jemima Lewis

Spare a little sympathy for kids who will never get chickenpox

A new vaccine push may spell the end of Britain's ‘chickenpox parties’

Jemima Lewis
Children just aren’t bored enough to love reading books

Jemima Lewis
AI is the revenge of school science nerds against smug creatives

Jemima Lewis
Handwriting will soon be the preserve of a sophisticated few

Jemima Lewis

Zoe Strimpel

The latest trans outrage might just be the most absurd one yet

Another entitled attack from a biological man who should have kept his nose out: just what we needed

Zoe Strimpel
The West remains haunted by medieval, anti-Jewish blood libel

Zoe Strimpel
Saying Rishi isn’t loyal to the UK is just plain racism

Zoe Strimpel
Gary Lineker should stick to football – and shut up about geopolitics

Zoe Strimpel

Tom Welsh

The Tories should stop treating London as if it’s a permanently Left-wing city

Many Conservatives see political benefit in actively levelling the capital down

Tom Welsh
Persecution of motorists could soon make driving an elite pursuit

One London council's planned reform of parking permits offers a worrying glimpse into the future

Tom Welsh

Tom Harris

The SNP’s ceasefire posturing is a moral scandal

Dia Chakravarty

The truth is that many women don’t want to go back to work after having children

Simon Heffer

Trigger warnings are bad enough – but this butchery of classic films is unforgivable

Norman Tebbit

Is eventual Irish unification now inevitable?

Jane Shilling

It’s not just haiku writers who feel a yearning for autumnal frost

Tim Stanley

Lord Cameron, the anti-Cincinnatus, offers Brexit and Boris jokes aplenty

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

China’s CO2 emissions may be falling already, in a watershed moment for the world

Xi’s quest for global supremacy is in perfect alignment with the country’s clean-tech dominance

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Lab-grown food may be the next great investment boom – and save the world in the process

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Central banks will have to slash rates as the world’s fiscal bubble bursts

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Europe is slowly destroying itself as it heads for another lost decade

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Jeremy Warner

Britain has given up saving – and it’s a crisis we can no longer afford to ignore

The occupants of Downing Street have waited far too long to confront this vicious circle of decline

Jeremy Warner
Musk could never have made it in Britain, or anywhere else in Europe

Jeremy Warner
Rishi Sunak’s plan to show the difference between Labour and the Tories

Jeremy Warner
The tax allowance that could supercharge Britain’s economy – if it’s made permanent

Jeremy Warner

Boris Johnson

Our support for Israel is as important as that for Ukraine

We are now battling for the same values and the same ideals, against the same anti-democratic and terroristic forces
The Commonwealth gives Britain a boost

The invisible threads which bind our family of nations are of immense practical value for trade
We cannot go on like this. The West must end its dependence on Vladimir Putin

Writing exclusively for the Telegraph, PM says Russian leader has exploited our need for his oil and gas, but now we must take back control
We are injecting funds to restore Britain’s status as a scientific superpower

Had it not been for our scientists, we would not now be able to enjoy the most basic human freedoms
Strengthening the sinews of our transport network will make the road to recovery smoother

A segmented, regional approach has left us with needless bottlenecks and endless delays, but a new strategy will get us back up to speed
We are still fighting this devilish virus, but this New Year really is one of change and hope

In the last few days of 2020, two big things suddenly went right. A great new deal with our European friends and a new vaccine against Covid

Con Coughlin

Hamas has lost the war. It may yet win the peace

Judith Woods

Good riddance to bad rubbish: farewell to The Archers’ arch-villain Rob Titchener

Matthew Lynn

Javier Milei isn’t ‘hard Right’. He could be Argentina’s free market saviour

Liam Halligan

The tax move that could spare the Tories a crushing defeat

Asa Bennett

It is a credit to Global Britain that Liam Fox's WTO candidacy has got this far

Christopher Howse

Even wearing a simple chain can be a minefield for men