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  • The trans cult is crumbling in Europe – now America needs to catch up

    Tavistock whistleblowers and the Cass Review reshaped care for transgender children in the UK. In the States, the veil is slowly lifting

    Suzanne Moore
    Suzanne Moore 10 Dec 2024, 6:00am
    transgender supporters waving flags
  • Rising cost of Labour

    Far from seeking growth, the Prime Minister’s policies seem likely to maintain the “managed decline” he condemned earlier this week

    Telegraph View
    Telegraph View 10 Dec 2024, 6:00am
    Labour Party
  • The two real reasons why DEI is dying

    The courts and public opinion have turned against a project that has advanced the opposite of equality

    Charles Lipson
    Charles Lipson 10 Dec 2024, 5:30am
    The University of Michigan
  • These latest planning reforms ride roughshod over local government

    Plus: Holding Assad to account; new nuclear power plants; drugs to tackle obesity; Notre-Dame’s example; more GPs; and home fires burning

    Letters to the Editor
    Letters to the Editor 10 Dec 2024, 12:02am
    Angela Rayner speaks in Buckinghamshire, England
  • Syria faces power vacuum after coup

    It would be best to be on guard for the unforeseen consequences of Assad’s departure

    Telegraph View
    Telegraph View 9 Dec 2024, 9:00pm
    The Syrian opposition flag hangs from the sword of the statue of Druze Sultan Al-Atrash Pashaat as people celebrate the rebel takeover of Damascus
  • America is back. Trump’s Paris triumph proves it

    The contrast between the president-elect’s energetic diplomatic manoeuvres and Joe Biden’s disappearance couldn’t be more striking

    Nile Gardiner
    Nile Gardiner 9 Dec 2024, 8:43pm
    Donald Trump shakes hands with Emmanuel Macron at Notre-Dame cathredral
  • Reform has what it takes to beat the Tories – their chairman convinced me

    We may be at a point in our politics last seen 100 years ago: a major party could be swept away by an upstart

    Sherelle Jacobs
    Sherelle Jacobs 9 Dec 2024, 7:04pm
    Zia Yusuf, Chairman of Reform UK
  • Christianity has become the ultimate offence – and now a sackable one

    Gozen Soydag lost her job at a Catholic school for expressing her Christian beliefs. Had she been a Muslim, would they have sacked her?

    Celia Walden
    Celia Walden 9 Dec 2024, 7:00pm
    Gozen Soydag, 37, was open about her Christian beliefs across her various social media accounts
  • Assad’s downfall exposes Russia’s true weakness

    Why do we all assume that Putin’s capacity for endurance is infinite?

    Charles Moore
    Charles Moore 9 Dec 2024, 6:52pm
    Vladimir Putin and Bashar Assad watch troops marching at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria, 2017
  • The fall of Assad is a disaster for Barack Obama

    The Syrian civil war could have been ended years ago had the former president not failed to act on his ‘red line’

    Azeem Ibrahim
    Azeem Ibrahim 9 Dec 2024, 6:12pm
    Syrian opposition members in London cheer the downfall of Bashar al-Assad
  • Government recklessness is swindling the taxpayer out of billions of pounds

    Mandarins are quite happy to design schemes to give away taxpayer money but are less interested in knowing how it is spent

    Alex Baker
    Alex Baker 9 Dec 2024, 4:22pm
    The Treasury must crack down on fraud
  • Britain is dangerously divided – but don’t blame the Right

    If we are to start with an honest analysis of the real and damaging divisions within our society, we cannot simply point the finger

    Tom Harris
    Tom Harris 9 Dec 2024, 2:06pm
    Dame Sara Khan, Britain's first Counter-Extremism Commissioner
  • The Silent Service is coming. Watch out, China

    ‘You can be sure the enemy would give much for the smallest facts on how they operate’

    David Axe
    David Axe 9 Dec 2024, 1:47pm
    HMS Ambush, an Astute class attack submarine of the Royal Navy. An Astute class boat will be based in Australia as part of the Australia-UK-US (Aukus) alliance
  • Imploding Europe has never needed Britain more

    The Chancellor will not boost the UK investment and consumer confidence her budget has damaged by visiting Brussels

    John Redwood
    John Redwood 9 Dec 2024, 1:07pm
    The Chancellor has said the UK and EU should aim to have a "businesslike" relationship going forward
  • We only have ourselves to blame for shoddy mobile internet

    Britain’s patchy service could be about to get an upgrade – if we want it enough

    Andrew Orlowski
    Andrew Orlowski 9 Dec 2024, 11:00am
    Mobile phone connection on one bar
  • Are we really about to see Labour make cuts in government spending?

    And take on the public sector unions in doing so

    Telegraph View
    Telegraph View 9 Dec 2024, 6:01am
    Reeves
  • Louise Haigh would struggle to get a job under workers’ rights reforms

    Labour is creating a market laden with fear that will condemn more to a life of worklessness

    Lucy Burton
    Lucy Burton 9 Dec 2024, 6:00am
    Louise Haigh leaves 10 Downing Street
  • Britain’s Assad apologists have been left egg-faced as Syrians celebrate his downfall

    Corbyn, Galloway and others have a lot of living down to do

    Samuel Ramani
    Samuel Ramani 9 Dec 2024, 5:28am
    British MP George Galloway (L) enjoys a friendly chat with the Saddam-era deputy prime minister of Iraq during a conference in Damascus in 2002
  • It’s happened again. We got rid of warships and then wished we hadn’t

    It keeps happening. Decommission warships, and straight away you need them back

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 9 Dec 2024, 5:01am
    HMS Albion
  • Labour’s plan for railways ignores the clear successes of privatisation

    Plus: The Prince of Wales in Paris; Eddie Stobart as Father Christmas; the demolition of M&S; civil servants’ performance; and bossy London

    Letters to the Editor
    Letters to the Editor 9 Dec 2024, 12:01am
    A South Western Railway train passing over the River Mole on its way to Dorking
  • Assad is gone, but the future of Syria and the Middle East is unclear

    Warfare and balkanisation may well continue

    Telegraph View
    Telegraph View 8 Dec 2024, 9:01pm
    Fires burn in Damascus after the fall of the Assad regime
  • Scented candles are the gift that keeps on being given

    And a new acoustic for Notre-Dame

    Jane Shilling
    Jane Shilling 8 Dec 2024, 8:02pm
    Candle
  • English schools are some of the best in the world. Labour will change that

    Proper teaching and strict discipline will go by the board in favour of ‘progressive’ nostrums

    Nick Timothy
    Nick Timothy 8 Dec 2024, 7:33pm
    Phillipson
  • Bashar Assad, the second-choice dictator who could never fill his father’s shoes

    The lisping would-be opthalmic surgeon triggered a civil war by torturing schoolboys to death

    Con Coughlin
    Con Coughlin 8 Dec 2024, 5:58pm
    Then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pictured in 2002
  • Jihadi terrorists now rule Syria

    Assad’s overthrow is welcome news. But our enemy’s enemy is not our friend

    Richard Kemp
    Richard Kemp 8 Dec 2024, 5:44pm
    Assad picture
  • Syria reveals the UK is no longer a player on the world stage

    The Prime Minister’s vision, such as it is, is minor and crab-like

    Kamal Ahmed
    Kamal Ahmed 8 Dec 2024, 4:59pm
    A woman shouts as Syrians celebrate in the central city of Homs
  • France’s crisis could be a taste of what’s to come for Starmer

    Britain’s taxpayers won’t acquiesce to unlimited demands to prop up public finances

    Roger Bootle
    Roger Bootle 8 Dec 2024, 3:00pm
    France's president Emmanuel Macron (R) looks intensely at Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Syria must not become another bloodbath like Iraq

    There is just a chance that the sun might shine brighter tomorrow

    Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
    Hamish de Bretton-Gordon 8 Dec 2024, 2:51pm
    Syrians celebrate in Damascus
  • The country is falling apart, so why on earth are we banning porridge adverts?

    This mindset, that the state can fiddle and ban its way out of every social problem, just takes on ever-more staggering proportions

    Zoe Strimpel
    Zoe Strimpel 8 Dec 2024, 1:03pm
    Porridge
  • The fall of Assad is a disaster for Putin. More dominoes may fall across the Middle East

    The war in Syria is in its last mile

    Tim Collins
    Tim Collins 8 Dec 2024, 12:51pm
    Blower cartoon for December 9
  • Both consumers and the wider economy will suffer from this insurance mega-merger

    Loss of competition in the market will do little to bring down sky-high premiums for customers

    Matthew Lynn
    Matthew Lynn 8 Dec 2024, 10:00am
    Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc
  • Maybe our institutions should behave more like France’s

    A mere third of UK institutions accepted a portrait of the King. The French understand the vital importance of national unity better than we

    Robert Tombs
    Robert Tombs 8 Dec 2024, 8:23am
    King Charles III Coronation 2023

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