Titanic survivors vindicated at last
A recently discovered cache of letters seen by the Telegraph absolves Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon of bribery and cowardiceJust when it could safely be assumed that every rivet of the Titanic had...
View ArticleDid dogs help us conquer the world? Man's best friend may be the reason why...
This guy has got it right about the evolutionary importance of dogs to us but is clearly clueless about why. The big and keen doggy nose makes up for our small noses. The big doggy ears make up for our...
View ArticleClimate change wiped out one of the world's first, great civilisations more...
Climate change led to the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization more than 4,000 years ago, archaeologists believe.The Indus civilization was the largest - but least known - of the first great...
View ArticleTwo very funny videos
Holding hands and an unusual use for an Ipad -- and you don't need the sound on for either of themSo papa, how do you like the iPad we got you?
View ArticleThe rhetoric that won the war
Book Review: "CHURCHILL: THE POWER OF WORDS" -- EDITED BY MARTIN GILBERT (Bantam Press £25)Review by Roger LewisMy guess is that had Winston Churchill been more terse, a year could have been knocked...
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Lady Mosley
Lady Mosley, who died in Paris on Monday aged 93, was a friend of both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler, and decidedly more fascinated by the FührerThe third and the most beautiful of the six Mitford...
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A triumph of modern architecture
The cost of repairing broken window blinds at London’s iconic City Hall, which houses the offices of Mayor Boris Johnson, is set to top £730,000.The glass-clad building on the South Bank of the Thames...
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The contents of two famous handbags
By PETRONELLA WYATT.This is one of the most entertaining articles I have read -- JRFor men, a handbag is a thing apart, for women ’tis their whole existence, to misquote Byron and to echo the...
View ArticleRed Ed’s One Nation hero was a vacuous, egotistical hypocrite who sent...
By Dominic SandbrookThere were two big winners from this week’s Labour Party conference. One was Ed Miliband, whose set-piece speech, delivered fluently and without notes, passed off better than even...
View ArticleEat in ironed underpants, peel peaches for ladies, and it's 'loo', never...
There is a LOL bit towards the end of this articleWith his double-breasted tuxedo and Royal tics – nervously fingering his signet ring and toying with his cuffs – Grant Harrold resembles our future...
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'I'm keeping all four!' What this courageous mother replied when butcher NHS...
How will the boys feel when they learn that the NHS wanted to kill two of them?Pregnant with quadruplets, Emma Robbins was told again and again that she should terminate two of her babies to give the...
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A 1956 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire
Complete with suicide doorsI always admired them in their day.
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The flood dog that miraculously came back to life
A southeast Queensland council is putting out a call for anybody who recognises this plucky pooch to get in touch.The series of images released today were sent to Somerset Regional Council, to the west...
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So Jacob, did you really go canvassing in a Bentley with your nanny? No! It...
The honourable member for Somerset North East, Jacob Rees-Mogg, is enjoying a bit of a purple patch.He has recently been described as a ‘mini Boris’ and the ‘undisputed star of the backbenches’,...
View ArticleNest feels a little emptier after family ties fortified by floodwaters
A tale from Brisbane's big flood by John HenninghamOF COURSE you must stay with us, I assured my suddenly homeless son. For as long as it takes to rebuild.Which could be weeks, I thought, looking at...
View ArticleBach
Ivan HewettThere are certain areas of feeling that classical music does especially well. One of them is the sense that everything will be all right, that there is order underneath the chaos, that peace...
View ArticleMr Osborne looks like a French aristo in a powdered wig. But that's no reason...
Tom Utley offers some thoughts on the British class systemWhenever I see George Osborne on the telly, I remember a friend’s brilliant observation that he always looks like an aristocrat in a powdered...
View ArticleProtestants 'work harder' and their mental wellbeing is more affected when...
People in Protestant countries work harder because they feel guiltier about taking time off, a study has found.And while unemployment generally makes all people unhappy, it is twice as likely seriously...
View ArticleTristan da Cunha
It is the world's most remote group of islands, 6,173 miles from Britain, and has more birds and penguins than human residents.But there is one thing missing from the lives of the Tristan da Cunha...
View ArticleA heartfelt letter to my grieving mother and Maggie's great unknown quality -...
By Tom UtleyAt my father’s funeral in 1988, Margaret Thatcher arrived more than an hour before the rest of the mourners. She took her place in a pew at the front of our parish church of St Mary on...
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