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The last private investigator in London
PIs occupy a special place in the British psyche - but what are the gadgets and honeytraps used for today? A few years ago, Paul Hawkes was imprisoned in a Bavarian castle. He escaped by fashioning a...
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Seaweed, helium and human blood - Christmas gifts for the scientist in your life
Some of the materials needed for scientific research are becoming scarce. If you’re wondering what to get the scientist in your life for Christmas, perhaps your first option could be seaweed....
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Yentob has left the building – but Broadcasting House will survive without him
It is vital that the BBC comes through the departure of its creative director, Alan Yentob, in good shape. And so another BBC career ends in the way that is characteristic of the corporation: an...
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“Into the space age of our human race” The Apprentice 2015 blog: series 11,...
Someone wins.WARNING: This blog is for people watching The Apprentice. Contains spoilers!Read up on episode 11 here. Crank up the aggressive Prokofiev and give us your 110 per cent attention. It’s The...
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100 days of Jeremy Corbyn: from Jez We Can to Jez We Might
Not everything has gone as well as I hoped - but I still think that Labour can win in 2020, says Rosie Fletcher. The morning after Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour party, I was told that, in...
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100 days of Jeremy Corbyn: Labour's problems neither start nor end with its...
Rather than leading the party into unparalleled difficulty, Jeremy Corbyn has merely overseen a reversion to the mean. The portrayal of a party leader during their first hundred days is important but...
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100 days of Jeremy Corbyn: Let Corbyn be Corbyn
The Labour leader must recover the tricks he used to win the job in the first place if he is to take Downing Street. The debates surrounding Jeremy Corbyn’s first hundred days have been predictable,...
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100 days of Jeremy Corbyn: At last, a real alternative
Jeremy Corbyn has got the big calls right and paved the way for a Labour victory in 2020. Since he was elected leader, Jeremy Corbyn has brought something to British politics that has been missing...
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A hundred days of Jeremy Corbyn: he won some, he lost some
Jeremy Corbyn ends his first 100 days with a few mistakes - but with his position at the top of the party secure. “For the next leader of the Labour Party, the seventeen days between being elected...
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Last year, Wilko Johnson cheated death - now he's back, and bloody annoyed
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, the former Dr Feelgood member began a very public goodbye. Then an oncologist went to a farewell gig - and spotted a misdiagnosis.“Tell you what, you can...
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Tech advances have revolutionised the way we look after our health
From the first wooden stethoscope, to today’s complex data analysis tools, technology is at the heart of medical and health care. Over the last two centuries, developments in healthcare technology...
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The Telegraph is fined £30,000 for urging subscribers to vote Conservative
The Information Commissioner's Office has found that the Telegraph Media Group breached marketing regulations by promoting the Tory campaign. The Telegraph Media Group has been fined £30,000 by the...
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The alarmist and contradictory advice pregnant women have to navigate could...
A recent study suggesting pregnant women shouldn't take SSRIs (antidepressant medication) is just the latest in scare stories that could harm future mothers. My knee-jerk response to reports like...
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Shimoneta is a humorous attempt by Japanese anime to tackle demography problems
How an anime show about dirty jokes grapples with the "boring" topics of demography and birth-rates. Despite steadily gaining popularity over the years, Japanese anime shows are still hermetically...
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Don't let Michael Gove get away with his latest U-Turn
The government has snuck out the figures on its latest mistake at the end of the year - don't let them escape scrutiny. As Members of Parliament return to their constituencies for the festive season,...
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David Cameron's bid to ban EU migrant benefits is a "distraction", warns Tory MP
Polish-born Daniel Kawczynski tells Tory colleagues: "Their contributions in income tax outstrip any benefits they may get many times over". The most troubled part of David Cameron's EU renegotiation...
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“Socialism” is 2015’s most looked-up word – so what should its modern...
“Socialism” is far from dead, it just needs a rebrand. Socialism is having a renaissance of late. In the US, Bernie Sanders has thrust the much-maligned term back into mainstream consciousness, making...
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Is Donald Trump a fascist? It doesn't matter
What matters more than any seminar room debate about what Le Pen, Trump and Orban should be called is this: they're litmus tests that the West is failing. With the “spectre” of right-wing populism...
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What did Jesus really look like?
Our images of Jesus say more about us as a society than about his historical appearance. Currently making the news is a report on a reconstruction of what is being called Jesus’s face. The...
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Of course Hermione Granger is black – she always has been
Growing up, I never thought that Hermione could be any colour other than black. Of course Hermione Granger’s black. Forget being surprised that Noma Dumezweni, who will play Granger in the forthcoming...
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