Christopher Booker has been at the top of British journalism since the 1960s, and this weekend he has given another demonstration why. Booker’s weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph, the most-read column in the paper, was pulled at 6 pm
Fracking will be allowed in British national parks in “exceptional circumstances”, according to government guidelines announced on Monday as new bidding for exploration licenses opens. The extraction of shale gas through the controversial technique in national parks, world heritage sites
I’ve spoken to a fair share of actors from outside the U.S. who applaud their country’s governments for footing part of the bill for their films. The British Film Institute, which wrote checks for the Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech
L’Oreal signed 17-year-old Alex Despiegelaere after seeing photos of her cheering for Belgium during the World Cup. They ended the contract with her after she posted a photo of herself with “what appears to be a dead gazelle she shot
The US Embassy in Moscow demanded Russia immediately release Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who is detained on suspicion of killing two Russian journalists. She was arrested in June and the Voronezh Regional Court said she will remain in pretrial
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said that Britain will be able to claw back certain powers from Brussels ahead of an in-out referendum on the country’s continued EU membership, the Telegraph reports. British Prime Minister David Cameron failed last
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has been accused of personally pressuring the chairman of Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE), the body that represents the country’s financial services, to drop a report on independence. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr Salmond telephoned
Nothing is sacred for the pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine. A Russian Orthodox Church Abroad priest, who did not want to be named, said the rebels hide mortars behind the Orthodox churches. “Gunmen in Slovyansk hide mortars behind orthodox churches and
Newspapers warned Saturday the country had edged closer to leaving the EU after Prime Minister David Cameron’s “crushing” failure to block Jean-Claude Juncker becoming president of the European Commission. But they were divided on whether it was Cameron or Brussels
In a controversy reminiscent of American baseball’s Black Sox Scandal, an investigation raises accusations that the Ghana Football Association has engaged in an international conspiracy to fix games in cooperation with a ring of corrupted game officials. A six-month-long undercover
A portion of the Houses of Parliament, also known as the Palace of Westminster, was evacuated moments ago following an alert over a suspect device. The evacuation, which the Telegraph reports was “in the shadow of Big Ben” consisted of
The pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine declared allegiance to the Russian Orthodox Church, and other religions in the area have fallen under suspicion. Father Sergei Kosyak with the Gospel Church told The Telegraph the story of his confrontation with pro-Russians on
Bloodbath at the Telegraph, formerly house journal of the Tory voting shires. Victims of the latest carnage include its former deputy editor Ben Brogan, its blogs editor Damian Thompson and two of its star feature writers Jenny McCartney and Cole
Ben Brogan, the Deputy Editor of the Telegraph who is rumoured to have been sacked in today’s mass clear out at the paper, has cancelled a lunchtime speaking engagement. Brogan was due to chair a session at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on
Wednesday 18th June 2014 will be burned into the brains of the Daily Telegraph’s journalists and management for some time. Today it is being reported that both Blogs Editor Damian Thompson and Deputy Editor Benedict Brogan have parted ways with
The Telegraph put together a video primer of how ISIS stole a fortune. The video details how ISIS has smuggling, extortion and murdered its way to a treasure chest reportedly worth over $1.4 billion. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
OK, here’s a tough one. Which of these, would you say, is the superior culture? Culture A Produced Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vermeer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere, Jane Austen, Newton, Wren, Darwin, Einstein, Watson & Crick, Magna Carta,
Brazil said the stadiums for the 2014 World Cup would be finished, but pictures show Manaus’s Amazonia Arena incomplete and its field in very poor condition. England plays Italy at the arena on Saturday. The arena cost over $290 million
FIFA President Sepp Blatter called critics of FIFA awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar racists. “There is a sort of storm against FIFA relating to the Qatar World Cup,” he complained. “Sadly there’s a great deal of discrimination and
The Telegraph’s Andrew Gilligan has today written about the Guardian newspaper’s inability to report the Islamist ‘Trojan Horse’ plot correctly: There’s a lot of bad journalism about Muslims in this country, but not all of it is at the tabloid
As the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues, it has already become “the most expensive” in aviation history, and “experts [predict] costs could reach hundreds of millions of pounds.” According to The Telegraph, this cost estimate comes after Australian
In Donetsk, the pro-Russian Vostok Battalion surrounded the headquarters of the Donetsk People’s Republic and forced everyone out. The battalion insists it is not a coup, but a police operation. Christopher Miller, editor of The Kyiv Post and contributor to
A leading Muslim charity is under investigation amidst allegations that it promoted intolerance towards the Jewish community and called for adulterers and gay people to be stoned to death, according to the Telegraph. The Charity Commission is said to have
Thomas Piketty – house economist of the Occupy movement – has been rumbled. Ever since the publication earlier this year of his doorstopper treatise Capital in the Twenty-First Century – the French economist has been adulated as the poster boy
“Imagine going to work every day and at the start of your day, with your first cup of coffee, you sit down to glance at beheadings, children in the process of being raped, human bodies in various stages of decomposition,
