Columnists

David Cameron’s return has put the pro-EU, anti-Israel blob back in charge

The Foreign Office has been emboldened to defy Rishi Sunak, and restart all of its old campaigns

Allister Heath 29 Nov 2023, 7:21pm

Camilla Tominey

Unprecedented mass migration threatens to erode our national values

Allison Pearson

The M&S Christmas advert is a shocking celebration of selfishness

Allister Heath

David Cameron’s return has put the pro-EU, anti-Israel blob back in charge

Fraser Nelson

Mass migration is covering up the scandal of out-of-control welfare

Janet Daley

Britain is broken, but Labour still won’t say how it plans to fix it

Nick Timothy

Not all migrants are good for Britain. We should only let in the ones who are

Philip Johnston

The common sense majority is being cowed into silence by activist zealots

Charles Moore

The hostage releases hand more power to Hamas

Juliet Samuel

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

Madeline Grant

Starmer has all the pomp of Caesar but with the likability of Bernard Manning ... and worse jokes

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 I’m happy to have just one child – and it’s no one else’s business

As far as other people’s choices are concerned, the best way to be a grown-up about it all is just to pipe down

Bryony Gordon
Why the perfect time to start a party is 5pm

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

Celia Walden

A ban from Fortnum’s is the worst penalty a posh shoplifter could imagine

The royal aide allegedly caught shoplifting at the department store may find she didn't get off lightly after all

Celia Walden
I was there when Lorraine bottom-shamed Nigel Farage and it’s a glorious memory

Celia Walden
In putting labels on newborn babies, the trans ideology has reached peak madness

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

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

Hollywood hunger strikes won’t save a single Palestinian

Actress Cynthia Nixon is dramatically calling for a ceasefire. It's going to take more than skipping your smoothie, Cynthia

Michael Deacon 30 Nov 2023, 8:00am

Jemima Lewis

True love lies in giving your wife a dustpan and brush for Christmas

Giving a loved one something utterly utilitarian means that they will think of you, however wryly, every time they use it

Jemima Lewis
Pro-lockdown obsessives still long to be told what to do

Jemima Lewis
Spare a little sympathy for kids who will never get chickenpox

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

Jemima Lewis

Zoe Strimpel

A third of UK workers work in their PJs. We’ve become a nation of slobs

It turns out that I’m not alone in this outrageous slovenliness – and it seems habits developed during Covid may be partly to blame

Zoe Strimpel
Here in Israel, there’s no ‘crisis of confidence’. It’s stronger than ever

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

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

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

Scotland’s heat pump obsession will immiserise the nation

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

Our digital lives need a real world back-up, or future historians may think we never existed

Tim Stanley

Is Sunak full-fat or semi-skimmed on migration? Worse, he’s liberal ‘almond milk’

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Europe needs massive rearmament to outlast Putin in Ukraine

Petty squabbles over euros and process are a distraction in the fight against Russia

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Germany’s debt-brake drama is poison for Deutschland Inc and for Europe’s monetary union

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

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

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Jeremy Warner

The Brexit betrayal is now complete

Without the promise to take back control of Britain’s borders, Leave would not have won

Jeremy Warner
Anyone would think the Bank of England’s failure to grasp the inflationary nettle was deliberate

Jeremy Warner
Electric car inertia risks leaving Britain in the backseat

Jeremy Warner
Like it or not, the Chancellor played a bad hand well

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 mastered the Iranian hostage playbook

Judith Woods

What will make our children happy in the future? Strangely, it might be Celtic studies

Matthew Lynn

Pensioners are owed a lockdown thank-you. It’s time to scrap Net Zero

Liam Halligan

Hunt’s stealth taxes prove he is no conviction chancellor

Asa Bennett

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

Christopher Howse

Babet, Ciarán, Debi? The Met Office’s latest storm names hardly invoke fear