Today’s Edition – 29th November 2023
Capitalism is emerging as the culprit for mass immigration
The revelation that Big Business and its lobby groups are the primary instigators of mass immigration means even the Right is being alienated from capitalism.
Capitalism is emerging as the culprit for mass immigration
The revelation that Big Business and its lobby groups are the primary instigators of mass immigration means even the Right is being alienated from capitalism.
Most damaging PMQs yet for Sunak
Max Mitchell
November 29, 2023
The PM lurched from clunky obfuscation to outright desperation as MPs giggled over him.
Gove lends credibility to lab leak theory
Caitlin Allen
November 28, 2023
Michael Gove is the first senior government figure to publicly acknowledge the plausibility of the lab leak theory.
How worried should we be about the pneumonia outbreak in China?
C Raina MacIntyre, Ashley Quigley, Haley Stone & Rebecca Dawson
November 28, 2023
Reports are emerging of a surge in pneumonia-like illness primarily affecting children in northern China.
UAE must not own Telegraph, says Lord Hague
The Hound
November 28, 2023
The former Tory leader has urged the culture secretary to stop Sheikh Mansour’s attempt to buy one of Britain’s biggest newspaper companies.
A Japanification of China’s economy is a scary prospect
Anthony Peters
November 28, 2023
The longer time goes on, the less likely a deep US recession looks. Yet the huge, consumer-driven rebound anticipated in the Chinese economy has failed to materialise.
Truthful reporting must not be a casualty of war
Adam Boulton
November 28, 2023
The documentary 20 Days in Mariupol provides a model example of unbiased war reporting from makers who hope accurate journalism can help bring conflicts to an end.
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Columnists
Central banks are using a twentieth century tool kit to fix a twenty-first century problem
Anthony Peters
November 27, 2023
The current economic and monetary environments are very different to the 1970s, not least because both public sector and household debt have mushroomed.
Enlightenment values have not led to political unity
Bruce Anderson
November 27, 2023
Faith in European traditions has been eroded.
Hunt’s supply side reforms stand a chance of getting Britain growing
Maggie Pagano
November 23, 2023
Labour’s feeble response and market stability – the Chancellor will see this as job done, for now.
Nothing Sunak or Hunt can do will save the Tories
Gerald Warner
November 22, 2023
The Conservative Party has no discernible purpose or objectives beyond spineless self-perpetuation.
One nation Conservative Jeremy Hunt is the unsung survivor of the Tory years in power
Adam Boulton
November 21, 2023
As a politician, Hunt has been consistently underestimated.
Columnists
Javier Milei: Argentina’s President-elect is taking a high risk gamble
The peso is almost worthless, making Milei’s signature policy pledge to “dollarise” the Argentinian economy a fraught task.
Confessions of a layout benefits scrounger
Tory rhetoric around “workers” and “scroungers” oversimplifies the many duties and obligations of life.
Britain’s small boats migrant crisis must be fixed
The current degringolade in the Channel forces us to think about legal principles and about the very purpose of our laws.
What are the scheming Sussexes up to now?
Healing the rift with Harry will be the icing on King Charles’s birthday cake. But he must surely be wondering, as are the rest of us, why the Californian Prince suddenly wants to patch things up.
Warning: this article contains praise of Rishi Sunak and David Cameron
The Prime Minister’s new foreign secretary comes with a lot of baggage. But at least he is not a man of zero depth.
Authority, intelligence, good looks – why do some Tories dislike David Cameron?
In some Conservative quarters, Cameron arouses antagonism and always has.
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World
Dublin riots expose rising anti-immigration sentiment
Caitlin Allen
November 24, 2023
An outbreak of violence in Dublin, on a level not seen in decades, has “brought shame on Ireland” declared Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
Geert Wilders election victory in the Netherlands fits wider picture of European radical-right populism
Catherine de Vries
November 24, 2023
Wilders will be conscious of how the Italian elections played out last year for prime minister Giorgia Meloni, with whom he shares a certain ideological affinity.
The New Cold War: who is courting the Global South?
Rebecca Nadin, Olena Borodyna & Ilayda Nijhar
November 21, 2023
While the West has been somewhat complacent in its engagement with the Global South and slower to recognise the geostrategic imperative of doing so, China and Russia have not.
Can Argentina’s anarcho-capitalist new President slay inflation?
Caitlin Allen
November 20, 2023
Javier Milei has pledged to take a chainsaw to the state and abolish Argentina’s central bank.
Ukraine makes important advance
Caitlin Allen
November 17, 2023
Amid growing speculation of a Russia-Ukraine stalemate, a promising development has emerged for Kyiv.
UAE must not own Telegraph, says Lord Hague
The former Tory leader has urged the culture secretary to stop Sheikh Mansour’s attempt to buy one of Britain’s biggest newspaper companies.
Culture
A voyage up the Amazon charms at the Met
Gerald Malone
November 24, 2023
Florencia en el Amazonas proved a visual treat and the English National Opera was on manoeuvres in Manhattan.
Word Watch: Imaginary
Andrew Wilton
November 24, 2023
The term “imaginary” used as a noun is cropping up frequently in recent prose. It seems at first sight a totally alien item.
Ridley Scott has started a new Napoleonic war
Patrick Barrow
November 21, 2023
The return of Le Petit Caporal has led to a burst of ressentiment in French cinema.
Stop and Look: The Jolly Flat-boatmen by George Caleb Bingham
Andrew Wilton
November 17, 2023
Bingham conveys so well his sense of the burgeoning potential of what was then the Far Western borderland of America.
The International Opera Awards is an artistic happening in its own right
Gerald Malone
November 17, 2023
This year’s ceremony, held at Warsaw’s Grand Theatre, came with a strong sense of political purpose.
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